MEMBERS of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction that remains loyal to former party leader Nelson Chamisa are now at each other’s throats. This comes as the faction remains at sixes and sevens over whether they should withdraw from Parliament — and who should lead them in the august House should they stay engaged…
EFFORTS to nail notorious land barons are being frustrated by some citizens who are reluctant to report their illegal activities to authorities, the government says. Speaking in the Senate last week, Housing minister Daniel Garwe also said some of the people who were facilitating the illegal parcelling of land in the country included some traditional…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week exempted a total of 21 parastatals and State-owned companies from the requirements of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act. The Act allows Mnangagwa after consulting with the Procurement Regulating Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) to exempt any public entity from application of the Act. In a general notice…
THE ongoing water crisis in Bulawayo has exposed the city council’s management after it emerged that only one water bowser is currently operational to supply residents who are in dire need of the precious liquid. The local authority has since the introduction of the 120-hour water shedding regime last year been resorting to using bowsers…
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has dismissed several complaints filed by a top Harare businessman, Tendai Mashamanda, seeking a probe into alleged corrupt acts by JSC secretary Walter Chikwana, several Supreme and High Court judges. Mashamanda was accusing the judges of ignoring his numerous complaints and “sweeping them under the carpet”. In his letter to…
By Ketty Nyoni THE escalating slump of the Zimbabwe dollar has reignited debate over whether the country should encourage greater local use of the South African rand. This comes as the prices of basic goods in the country have continued to rise sharply over the past few weeks, a crisis that is largely blamed on…
LAWMAKERS across the political divide are unhappy over the delays by the government to allocate them serviced residential stands they were promised by the government in 2019. However, four years later the MPs are yet to receive the stands and last Thursday, they took the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda to task over…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says a total of 4 562 deceased voters are set to be removed from the voters roll in terms of the Electoral Act if no objections are made. In a general notice published in the Government Gazette, Zec’s chief elections officer Utloile Silaigwana said any person with objections to the…
HEALTH minister Douglas Mombeshora has bemoaned the current state of the country’s health situation saying a lot needed to be done to spruce it up and cater for the ever-growing population. He was speaking at the commissioning the first magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) scan at Bulawayo’s largest referral medical centre, Mpilo Central Hospital on Friday, where…
BY YVONNE NCUBE THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it is conducting a feasibility study on the Matobo aquifer as part of the city’s multiple efforts to explore ways of bringing to an end perennial water challenges in the second capital. An aquifer is a body of porous rock with groundwater. Speaking at a stakeholders…
