FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says the government has done more towards improving the civil servants’ welfare over the past two-and-a-half years through guaranteed salaries and bonuses. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has had a love-hate relationship with civil servants, who recently issued threats to go on strike before resolving to report for duty twice a week…
FORMER Harare mayor Hebert Gomba yesterday appeared in court on fresh abuse of office charges emanating from the sale of Mt Pleasant Sports Club in Harare. Allegations against Gomba are that in August 2019 he used his position as mayor and sold the sports club to Hardspec Investments, through its representatives, Mavis Madzivanzira and Pauline…
A LEGAL battle has erupted between Murewa Rural District Council (MRDC) and the Congregation of Apostolic Ministries (CAM) church over ownership of Maponongwe Secondary School in the Mashonaland East province. The council has since approached the High Court citing the church and one of its members Dunwell Mvochora as respondents. “Sometime between 2003 and 2006,…
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa says the government has agreed to deploy special security forces to deal with artisanal miners who have become notorious along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge railway. In a post-Cabinet media briefing last night, Mutsvangwa said the move to deploy a special crack team was meant to save railway infrastructure. “In the area operated by…
LABOUR minister Paul Mavima says the government will incorporate pensioners’ representatives in the new National Social Security Authority (Nssa) board which will be announced in a few days. This comes as Mavima, last year, dissolved the entire Nssa board which was chaired by Cuthbert Chidoori and replaced it with a three-member interim team while awaiting…
FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, pictured, has launched a fresh application this time seeking for chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi to recuse himself from her corruption trial. This came out in Mupfumira’s application in which she is seeking an order for the review of her case at the High Court. Mupfumira also wants the trial…
A GOLD buyer Terrence Mashiri, who was duped of US$45 000 by three men who masqueraded as dealers in the yellow metal, has approached the High Court seeking to recover his money. While the three, Louis Mudzongo, Tafara Mike and Stephen Mhumbwe, are also facing criminal charges before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts and will be…
HIGH Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora yesterday reserved the ruling on the bail application launched by incarcerated MDC Alliance activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe, pictured. Justice Chinamora said he would need time to review the submissions from both the defence team and the prosecution. Haruzivishe is currently serving jail time after Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga sentenced…
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is going after disloyal party officials who defied his call to withdraw from Parliament in solidarity with legislators recalled by his erstwhile colleague Douglas Mwonzora. This comes as Chamisa has lost about 40 legislators and several councillors after they were recalled by Mwonzora, who took over as the president at the…
ZIMBABWE Civil Society Organisations Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (ZCSOSUNA) is pushing for the inclusion of adolescents in nutrition interventions. ZCSOSUNA national coordinator Kudakwashe Zombe said most nutrition interventions focus on young children as well as pregnant and lactating women, neglecting adolescents who constitute 23 percent of the country’s population. “Adolescence is a critical period for…
