By Nyasha Kunyiswa IN A bid to contain the spread of water borne diseases, Harare City Council (HCC) has advised residents to always boil or use aqua tablets to treat water both borehole and tap. This comes after the country has witnessed a surge in cholera cases where at least eight people have died from…
By Rutendo Ngara THE government says milk production in the country has increased by 11 percent to close to 24 million litres this year from 21 million litres during the same period last year. Posting on his twitter handle yesterday permanent secretary in the Agriculture ministry John Basera attributed the increase was necessitated to both…
BY BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI AND BRANDON JOSPHAT BOTH consumers and business say authorities need to act urgently on the resurgent foreign currency parallel market and the country’s continuing power cuts — which have contributed to a new wave of price increases of basic goods. This comes as the Zimbabwe dollar continues to plunge against the much-coveted…
AUTHORITIES say Harare’s relations with Washington are improving despite the recent extension of sanctions on Zimbabwe by President Joe Biden’s administration. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, David Musabayana, said the government is happy with the signals coming from Washington. “They are warming up to us and relations between…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT LEGISLATORS have called on the government to reserve seats for the country’s veterans of the liberation struggle in Parliament ,as a way of honouring their contribution to the country’s independence. This comes as the liberation veterans have been complaining that the government has been neglecting them by not giving them substantial recognition…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is reviewing its development plan in a bid to revive the city’s once vibrant industries and create local employment. Bulawayo used to be a major hub for vehicle assembly, tyre production, textiles production, manufacturing of construction equipment and material, electronics and furniture, food processing and manufacturing of leather products. Speaking…
BY RUTENDO NGARA WITH a substantial number of Zimbabweans food insecure owing to climate change-induced poor harvests in some parts of the country, almost one million people have had to do with assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP) in the last two months. In its latest report that was published on Friday, WFP said…
THE government has declined to be drawn into the court battle between opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). This comes after Mwonzora approached the Constitutional Court last month, challenging the constitutionality of Zec’s much-debated and since gazetted delimitation report. The MDC boss cited President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and…
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has allocated new top-of-the-range Ford Ranger double cab vehicles and sedans to some of the country’s magistrates. This emerged this week as about 200 magistrates met in the resort town of Victoria Falls for the inaugural national magistrates’ conference. Addressing the magistrates on Thursday, chief magistrate Faith Mushure expressed her…
By Brandon Josphat PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government will channel more financial resources to all local authorities to improve poor service delivery. Speaking in Gweru yesterday where he received a freedom of the city of Gweru honour, Mnangagwa said the failure by local authorities to improve service delivery had forced the government to intervene….
