HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is seeking to amend its traffic by-laws to include sections on issuance of parking tickets and fines. According to environmental management committee minutes, the by-law did not have any provision on offences and penalties making it difficult to charge offenders. The new amendments would work together with the amended…
HARARE – Unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa deals with those who are out to destroy him his life will remain under constant threat, social and political analysts contend. The recent bomb attack in Bulawayo is not the first time that the president’s life has been threatened as there have been multiple attempts on his life over…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to do everything possible to stop the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) from manipulating the July 30 general elections in favour of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Opposition political parties have been demanding a raft of electoral reforms that they argue will guarantee a free and fair election. Part…
HARARE – Former Morgan Tsvangirai’s ally Eddie Cross believes his former mentor’s nemesis President Emmerson Mnangagwa has turned a new leaf and is on the right track, subtly endorsing him as a viable candidate for the July 30 polls. Mnangagwa plunges into his first presidential election at the end of this month with the prospect…
HARARE – Local authorities have appealed to the parliamentary portfolio committee to coerce the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) to disburse the full amount for road repairs and maintenance. In a report released last week by the committee on Local Government, councils complained that Zinara’s staggered disbursements were not alleviating the road problem. Urban and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) members must engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa directly on their offer to be part of his close security, Information minister Simon Khaya-Moyo has said. The offer is in the wake of a bomb attack that claimed two lives and seriously injured several others at Mnangagwa’s rally at…
HARARE – International aid agencies contributed $931 million towards effective humanitarian support to vulnerable Zimbabweans since 2016, the United Nations (UN) has said. The statistics were revealed at a meeting jointly convened by government and the UN in Harare last week to validate programme results achieved under the 2016-2020 Zimbabwe United Nations Development Assistance Framework…
HARARE – Government has waived income tax for expatriate staff of World Vision Zimbabwe (WVZ) and projects financed by the United States (US) government. This follows provisions provided for under Statutory Instrument 127 of 2018 published in last Friday’s Government Gazette. According to the gazette, the exemption is provided for in the framework agreement, Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Harare Central Hospital — one of Zimbabwe’s major referral health institutions — has fixed its chemistry analyser machine, which tests blood samples among other, after it broke down nearly a fortnight ago, an official has said. The hospital, in dire straits due to collapsing antiquated infrastructure and shortage of professional staff, had stopped…
HARARE – The Health ministry says it has injected the necessary funding to enable public health institutions to offer blood for free with effect from this month. This comes as the ministry scrapped user fees for blood accessed from public health institutions. The David Parirenyatwa-led ministry has injected nearly $7 million as a subsidy into…
