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Melisa ChatikoboSTAFF WRITERchatikobom@dailynews.co.zw MOTORISTS in the capital will have to contend with even higher parking fees, after the Harare City Council (HCC) hiked its charges again yesterday. The increase comes as motorists in Bulawayo have been boycotting central business district (CBD) parking in the second city, after a company working with the council there recently…

masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw  A HARARE house maid has been nabbed on allegations of conniving with her boyfriend to rob her employer. Laina Mabhauti,  26, allegedly left the door open for her boyfriend and his accomplices to gain entry without hurdles before making away with money and other valuables. She was not asked to plead to robbery charges…

OUTSPOKEN former Cabinet minister and still Zanu PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube, has pooh-poohed ongoing calls for the exhumation of the revered late vice president, Joshua Nkomo, from the National Heroes Acre in Harare for reburial at his rural home in Kezi, Matabeleland South. Speaking on Thursday on independent television station 3Ktv’s popular programme, Vantage,…

CHURCHES have renewed their push for the country’s political parties and other stakeholders to have dialogue before 2023 elections, saying  Zimbabweans need to come together to end the decades-long social, economic and political challenges. Speaking during an online discussion on Thursday, Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) secretary-general Kenneth Mtata said only an all-inclusive dialogue would…

HARARE provincial development coordinator Tafadzwa Muguti  says Harare, Chitungwiza, Ruwa and Epworth are losing 65 percent of treated water to illegal connections. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday at the weekend, Muguti said the areas were losing the water to unscrupulous practices by residents.“As a province, we are losing a lot of the non-revenue…

THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has formed a taskforce meant to find ways to reduce challenges associated with refuse collection in the city.  This comes after the shortage of refuse compactors had forced BCC to alter its refuse collection schedule, a situation which has seen the residents getting up in arms with the local authority.This…

THE ruling Zanu PF has reiterated that it will not hold talks with the opposition, including on much-needed electoral reforms, outside the government’s Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform. Polad is a platform where President Emmerson Mnagagwa regularly meets with the leaders of small opposition parties who contested him in the 2018 presidential election. Responding to…

TEMPERS flared yesterday after regional magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka issued a warrant of arrest on former Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s wife, Marry Mubaiwa, for wilful default of court despite being within the precinct of Harare courts. The court was due to make a ruling on Mubaiwa’s application that it had no jurisdiction to charge her with…