© A PRIVILEGES committee set up by Parliament to investigate four members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy who allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman seeking to mine coal at Hwange Colliery has recommend their acquittal for lack of evidence. [GoogleAd] In February, Independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa, who was…
© Businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi’s 4-year-old child will remain in the the custody of his biological father, with his ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa directed to surrender his travel documents and identity courts, the Children’s Court has ruled. This comes after High Court judge Happious Zhou recused himself from the child custody wrangle after Muteswa cast aspersions…
© HARARE Provincial Affairs minister Oliver Chidawu says the capital city needs to invest $2,5 billion in the next few years to overhaul its old water infrastructure which can no longer cope with rising demand. [GoogleAd] Chidawu, a former Harare mayor, however, told participants at a water workshop in Harare on Tuesday that the city…
© SOME businesspeople in the city have accused Zanu PF youths of demanding huge sums of money as donations for the party’s annual conference set for Goromonzi next week. [GoogleAd] The conference, to be attended by 7 000 delegates from throughout Zimbabwe, will run from December 10 to 15. A businessman who declined to be…
© THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has licensed Parvalue Energy (Private) Limited to set up a 50 megawatts solar plant in Bulawayo’s Westgate area. [GoogleAd] The solar power plant, which has been granted a 25-year licence, comes at a time the country is experiencing one of its worst power crises in decades that has…
© RESIDENTS in the capital have slammed the Harare City Council over heaps of uncollected garbage scattered across the central business district. [GoogleAd] Despite council workers playing their role by sweeping and placing the dirt in designated places, the municipality is failing to collect the refuse, thereby creating artificial dumpsites in the city. “Recently, the…
© THE Public Entities Corporate Governance Act could be the game changer that Zimbabwe needs to boost its economy, a top European Union (EU) official has said. [GoogleAd] Head of delegation of the EU to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen said this during the launch of the Act in Harare yesterday, in a partnership between the government,…
© GWANDA municipality is headed for a collision course with residents after it recently announced that it would repossess 215 residential stands which have remained undeveloped for a long time. In a notice, the local authority said stand holders have to start developing their stands by tomorrow (December 5) or risk losing them. [GoogleAd] The…
© THE United States of America (USA) has provided US$163 million for HIV programmes in Zimbabwe since the beginning of the year and will disburse more funds next year, deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Harare, Thomas Hastings, has said. Hastings said during World Aids Day commemorations in Masvingo at the weekend…
© POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga was yesterday mentioned as one of senior officers whose personal vehicles were serviced and repaired by the force. This was revealed during the trial of ex-police boss, Robert Tendero Masukusa, accused of defrauding the police by servicing and repairing personal vehicles using Zimbabwe Republic Police funds. [GoogleAd] The trial is…
