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HARARE – The legal team representing the MDC Alliance is accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration of breaking into their attorney’s offices and stealing large amounts of data from their computer, days before the opposition alliance filed a petition challenging the results of the presidential election. The allegation, based on documents prepared by Mnangagwa’s lead advocate…

HARARE – ZANU PF’s legal team was yesterday caught up in a mega faux pas — an embarrassing situation that the ruling party’s learned lawyers will probably want to forget quickly. This was after the team attempted to file the party’s opposing papers to opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s Constitutional Court (Con-Court) challenge against President-elect Emmerson…

HARARE – Harare City Council officials have said a critical shortage of fuel is hampering them from timeously responding to complaints from ratepayers. At the 100-day review workshop on Wednesday, most council directors argued that apart from manpower problems, fuel was among their biggest challenges. HCC has a 24-hour response time to water and sewer…

HARARE – An audit into the Harare City Council information technology at its district offices revealed that most computers at these centres are not linked to council’s main server. According to audit committee minutes, findings from the investigations also showed that district offices do not have access to the BIQ’s generated standard reports. The findings…

HARARE – A Harare businessman is facing fraud charges after reportedly selling one residential stand to two people. Taremeredzwa Manase, 31, the director Tallyo Concrete (Pvt) Ltd which is into brick manufacturing along Simon Mazorodze Road in Harare appeared before Harare magistrate Milton Serima charged with fraud involving $28 375. He was released on bail….

HARARE – Two Harare men accused of participating in a violent protest in Harare on August 1 that culminated in the death of at least six people  appeared in court yesterday. Last Tinashe Vambe, 20, and Jeff Tafadzwa Chaitezvi, 32, appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo who released them on $50 bail each. The duo…

HARARE – President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa made an impassioned plea to all Zimbabweans yesterday — calling on them to leave behind the country’s recent political turmoil and focus on the future by working hard to resuscitate the ailing local economy. Mnangagwa’s call came as commerce and industry have bemoaned the economic uncertainty that has been created…

HARARE – President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa made an impassioned plea to all Zimbabweans yesterday — calling on them to leave behind the country’s recent political turmoil and focus on the future by working hard to resuscitate the ailing local economy. [Adz]

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has advised its clients of disruptions in normal service delivery during relocation of their Gweru offices. Initially Zimra Gweru offices were located at the city’s government complex and will now be moving into Megawatt complex. “Zimra Gweru office is relocating from the government complex to Megawatt complex with…

HARARE – Government has been urged to repeal a raft of punitive taxes and levies on beef farmers charged by at least six State agencies. The taxes are behind sharp rises in the cost of meat. The Zimbabwe beef sector study conducted by the Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC), reveals that the multiplicity of compliance…