HARARE – As the implementation of the $98 million National Broadband Project nears completion, TelOne is changing all the area codes and modifying telephone numbers countrywide. The area codes have been reduced from 195 to just 20 in line with the International Telecommunication Union regulations. The 20 area codes mean that some areas that previously…
HARARE – Ahead of next month’s decisive polls, Zanu PF is fretting over threats by the Generation 40 (G40) faction, which has openly thrown its full weight behind the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa of the MDC. On Tuesday, the G40 faction, which is rabidly opposed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration joined the MDC…
HARARE – The late businessman Shingi Mukandi’s father Benjamin yesterday said he suspects foul play in his son’s death and ruled out the possibility of a road traffic accident. Mukandi was killed in an accident on July 22 last year while riding his motor bike. He was hit by an Isuzu KB truck driven by…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for forcing school pupils to attend his rallies. Zinasu secretary-general, Ashley Pfunye, told MDC supporters during an electoral reforms demo in Harare on Tuesday: “He (Mnangagwa) acts as if he wants to become a headmaster because we have seen the abuse of…
HARARE – There was drama at Harare City Council (HCC)’s Town House after pensioners staged a sit-in on Monday, protesting the non-payment of their monthly pay-outs. According to the pensioners, some of whom are former liberation war fighters, they have not been receiving their monthly pay-outs since they were retired about four years ago. It…
MUTARE – Soldiers have cleared illegal artisanal gold miners who had maintained a two-decade stranglehold on government-owned Allied Timbers’ Tarka Forest Reserve – a commercial pine tree plantation in Chimanimani – in a clean sweep that suggests a previous lack of political will in addressing the menace. The army moved in in April and has…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s civil society has petitioned regional bloc Southern African Development Community (Sadc) expressing concern at Zimbabwe’s preelection stalemate, as pressure continued piling up on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to level the electoral playing field ahead of July 30 elections. Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) — a conglomeration of more than 80 civil society organisations…
HARARE – A Zanu PF rally at Robert Mugabe Square in Harare meant to counter Tuesday’s MDC Alliance demonstration attracted a lower than expected turn-out yesterday, with the event sullied by a scramble for T-shirts. The Zanu PF youth league had hoped to flex its muscle at the solidarity march with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s call…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) managing director Noah Gwariro yesterday testified that former Energy minister Samuel Undenge was responsible for authorising a public relations contract that prejudiced the power utility of $12 000. Undenge is answering to criminal abuse of office charges before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya. The charges relate to a contract…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has blamed the police for failing to arrest unlicensed foreign currency traders saying there was a legal framework in place to curb the vice. This comes as the country is in the throes of a critical US dollar shortage it adopted as legal tender in 2009 after the worthless…
