Government authorities are rushing to drill thousands of boreholes across the country to ensure enough water for drinking, washing and livestock, as farmers grapple with a drought and a months-long water shortage. [GoogleAd] Authorities examined the water supply and demand nationwide — taking into account needs for agriculture, industrial use and human consumption — and…
© Harare City Council is looking at tapping into demand for real estate among the Diaspora wanting a connection with their homeland. The move is an attempt to boost council’s dwindling revenue. Town clerk Hosiah Chisango said the economy has been unforgiving to local authorities amid runaway inflation and increasing interest rates. [GoogleAd] Speaking…
Editor — Where are the trade unions, does no one care about the plight of workers any longer? The workers’ income in this country is being eroded by the harsh economic environment. The salaries of many workers have remained unchanged despite the increase in fuel, basic commodities, rents, transport to mention a few. Some of…
EDITOR — Zimbabwe government’s plan to construct high rise flats — is music to the ears of many who are still finding it hard to get a roof over their heads. We hope and wish such rhetoric turns into visible reality. [GoogleAd] However, first things first, how about those who contributed towards a similar government project…
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa and his MDC lieutenants say they fear for their lives, amid allegations that the government has placed them under 24-hour surveillance over suspicions that they are planning mass demonstrations against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] So scared have Chamisa and the other MDC bigwigs become that the…
© CIVIL society organisations and opposition parties said yesterday that they were appalled by Wednesday’s shameful scenes in the City of Kings, in which outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional leader — Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni — was nearly assaulted by suspected Zanu PF thugs. [GoogleAd] This comes as Ndiweni has attracted the wrath of ruling party apparatchiks after…
© PROSECUTORS did not report for work at the High Court yesterday in protest over the arrest of their colleague Tapiwa Kasema who has been charged for consenting to relaxation of ex-minister Ignatius Chombo’s bail conditions. [GoogleAd] The Prosecutors Association of Zimbabwe (Paz) petitioned Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi, slamming the harassment and also protesting the deteriorating…
© EXILED former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri is now settling a claim in which he was dragged to the High Court for allegedly impounding five cars and a house from a Harare businessman. [GoogleAd] Bigboy Pachirera had listed Chihuri, his wife Isabel and their company Kidsdale Enterprises as respondents to his claim of compensation and…
© ON THE back of an excellent year of Isuzu bakkie sales in Zimbabwe, Industry and Commerce minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu this week visited Isuzu’s production facility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [GoogleAd] He is the first Zimbabwean dignitary to visit Isuzu Motors South Africa’s production facility in Struandale since it’s opening last year. As…
© THE Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC), which recently completed the first phase of the audit involving more than 18 000 farmers, has unearthed gross underfunding of the agricultural sector and is now pushing for the establishment of a Land and Agricultural Bank to facilitate funding for resettled farmers. [GoogleAd It is also recommending an integrated…
