TAPIWA CHIRUME TEMPERS flared at Kwekwe City Council last week after councillors discovered that management had defied a full council resolution to purchase two refuse compactors, opting instead to buy a less suitable skip bin truck. The shock revelation came during a tense full council meeting on Thursday, where furious councillors accused management of undermining…
THABISO MUTIRWARA DESPITE an above-average 2025 harvest, Zimbabwe faces a renewed food security challenge, with the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) predicting that Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes will emerge across many of the country’s typical deficit-producing regions by this month. The warning comes even though the harvest had initially raised hopes of…
FORMER legislator and well-known opposition figure, Job Sikhala, was arrested in neighbouring South Africa on Thursday night after authorities there found explosives in his car. The larger-than-life politician is expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court soon on charges of illegal possession of explosives, after he was nabbed following a tip-off about a Ford…
AUTHORITIES say they are not going to remove the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT), asserting that the tax continues to sustain the government. IMTT is a tax chargeable on financial transactions that occur through transfers such as direct debits, online transfers, mobile money transfers, supplier payments, and interbank transfers. This stance comes as representatives of…
THE country is faced with serious healthcare challenges as the Health Resilience Fund (HRF) ends this year, leaving a US$90 million funding gap for essential health services, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health and Child Care has revealed. Speaking during the 2026 National Budget seminar, legislator Discent Collins Bajila, representing the portfolio committee chaired by…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has implored National Foods Limited to boost local production by investing in research and adopting innovative technologies. Addressing the media after a private meeting with the company’s management in Bulawayo yesterday, Chiwenga said National Foods was a pivotal player in Zimbabwe’s food industry. “The government is committed to creating a supportive…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A MINISTRY of Public Works district officer and director of Rota Cons Engineering, Kenneth Nyakujawa, has appeared at the Bulawayo Magistrates Court facing allegations of diverting a school painting project to his own company. Nyakujawa, 40, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Richard Ramaboea charged with concealing from a principal a person interested…
THE opposition is free to engage the ruling Zanu PF over its much-debated 2030 push, as well as on other issues, a top ruling party official has said. Addressing a Zanu PF meeting in Gutu on Wednesday, the former liberation movement’s secretary for security in the politburo, Lovemore Matuke, also warned that authorities would deal…
Takudzwa Dhambu A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Esigodini, Bulawayo, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Gwanda Regional Magistrates Court for raping a 93-year-old granny during a nighttime break-in in July this year. The National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe yesterday said the offender broke into the victim’s bedroom via the door and raped…
Tapiwa Chirume HARARE residents have raised alarm over the city council’s proposed 2026 burial and exhumation fee hikes, describing the move as “anti-poor” and an attack on struggling ratepayers already burdened by high service charges. According to the draft schedule of proposed 2026 tariffs, adult burial fees at Warren Hills Cemetery would increase from US$275…
