THE Harare City Council (HCC) plans to introduce a road levy for residents as the local authority seeks to raise funds to rehabilitate its dilapidated road network. This comes after the HCC Department of Works noted that the $530 million allocated for road projects in the 2021 council budget falls far short of the required…
THE government has reduced royalties payable by artisanal and small-scale gold miners from two percentage points to one percentage point for 500 grammes of the precious yellow metal per month. This comes as the government is on a concerted drive to encourage gold deliveries to Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), the sole official gold buyer…
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has blamed Nelson Chamisa’s administration and interference by the central government for the rot in opposition-controlled local authorities countrywide that has led to poor service delivery. This comes as service delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels mainly in Harare and Bulawayo where residents go for days without water, while garbage goes…
WITH pressure mounting on its leaders all round, insiders say the MDC Alliance has reached a critical point where tough decisions now have to be made about its future. This comes as both Zanu PF and the main opposition MDC led by Douglas Mwonzora are cranking up the heat on the alliance’s leaders, amid a…
AUTHORITIES have arrested a policeman for negligent driving which they say led to the death of an outrider in First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa’s motorcade on Good Friday. The policeman, Tinotenda Esau Mutandiro — who is based in Harare — was allegedly at fault in the fatal crash which claimed the life of Freddy Chipato of…
With the country’s main opposition MDC party at war with itself amid leadership wrangles and mass defections to Zanu PF, the ruling party says it cannot wait for 2023 elections to finish off its rivals. This comes as Zanu PF has set a target to increase the number of its registered voters to five million…
OVER 140 000 workers in the transport sector in the capital lost their jobs owing to measures put in place by the government to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic, the secretary-general of Greater Harare Commuter Omnibus Association (GHACO), Ngoni Katsvairo has said. Katsvairo told the media recently that 49 000 kombis, each employing a driver, conductor…
ZIMBABWE will not individually deploy troops in northern Mozambique to fend off Islamic insurgents who have killed more than 2 500 people and displaced 700 000 others in the country, the government says. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday as Harare has come under growing pressure to dispatch soldiers to Cabo Delgado to help manage the situation…
THE coronavirus pandemic has hit schools again, following 46 confirmed new cases involving learners, educators and non-teaching staff in Harare and Mberengwa. The cases at Prince Edward High School and Dove Secondary School in Mberengwa have prompted authorities to deploy teams from the ministries of Health and Education to carry out investigations. The national chief…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO ONLY five out of thousands of children living with disabilities in Matabeleland came to seek sexual health services during the lockdown period, a figure that shows a low uptake of the service, an official has revealed. Speaking during a stakeholder meeting where participants deliberated on sexual health rights among children living with…
