© GOVERNMENT has given local authorities the green light to engage debt collectors to enhance their revenue collection so that service delivery and payment of salaries improve. Responding to a question from the National Patriotic Front party MP Kwekwe Central Masango Matambanadzo during a question without notice session in Parliament last week, Local Government minister…
© WATER leaks on the council’s pipelines have continued to haunt the local authority in a development that has been attributed to ageing of the water reticulation pipes. This comes after the city fathers recently reintroduced the water shedding schedule owing to challenges with raw water pumping at its water works as well as the…
© OUTSPOKEN Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni — whom government has since labelled an enemy of the people — yesterday refused to budge, taking the fight to government, describing it as misguided. [GoogleAd] This was after he sensationally called for the international community to escalate sanctions on the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government, claiming it has failed…
© RESPECTED lawyer and MDC top official David Coltart has reacted angrily to the statement by MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe that she was the new leader of the main opposition. [GoogleAd] Khupe declared her new role following a ruling by the High Court judge Justice Edith Mushore last week that the late MDC leader Morgan…
© Former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security minister Supa Mandiwanzira has come out guns blazing, accusing Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi of lying and casting aspersions on his acquittal at the High Court. [GoogleAd] In an opposing affidavit against the PG’s rescission application, Mandiwanzira said Hodzi had issued press statements while his officers had also gone…
© FORMER National Pharmaceuticals board chairperson George Washaya has been declared a hostile State witness after exonerating ex-Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa of abuse of office charges. [GoogleAd] Washaya testified in a case where Parirenyatwa stands accused of acting contrary to his duties when he allegedly directed him to terminate Flora Sifeku’s contract…
© The 1893 Mthwakazi (Matabeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), in partnership with stakeholders, will gather in the UK in June to commemorate the Guruhandi genocide of the 1980s. [GoogleAd] The ceremony will honour the dead widely believed to be around 20 000. As part of commemoration, the leaders of the rights group will…
© FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was on Sunday barred from travelling to South Africa after his passport was confiscated by security agents at the Robert Mugabe International Airport. His lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, told the Daily News yesterday that his client intended to travel to see his doctors in South Africa. [GoogleAd] “Yes, his passport…
© GOVERNMENT is struggling to deal with skyrocketing price increases, ruling out price controls and instead only encouraging business to promote exports and therefore generate more foreign currency. [GoogleAd] Industry and Commerce deputy minister Raj Modi told legislators last week that the price hikes are causing unnecessary suffering. “Government acknowledges that the high level of…
© LAWYERS representing a retired soldier, who has been held incommunicado for three weeks by Zimbabwe National Army after claiming pension benefits, have filed an urgent chamber application for his immediate release. [GoogleAd] The applicant is Francis Chagonda and respondents are the officer in charge of Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services, Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander…
