HARARE City Council (HCC) has expressed concern over water being drawn from Cleveland Dam by Zimbabwe Phosphate Industries (ZimPhos). According to audit committee minutes, committee chairperson Ian Makone advised the acting director of Harare Water Mabhena Moyo to see whether there was an agreement with the chemical company. [GoogleAd] ZimPhos, which is the manufacturing division…
There is growing concern over the inordinate delay in the implementation of devolution of power from central government to provincial and metropolitan councils. The Constitution proposes devolving a significant chunk of the National Budget to 10 provincial governments, and also proposes handing them responsibility for basic healthcare, early education, local roads, and other infrastructure. [GoogleAd]…
THE University of Zimbabwe (UZ has started the hunt for a substantive Vice Chancellor position. This follows the suspension of Professor Levi Nyagura last year on allegations of criminal abuse of office. Paul Mapfumo has been the acting Vice Chancellor. The incoming Vice Chancellor will be reporting to the Council while providing institutional leadership and…
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has said Zanu PF staunchly refused to shelter South Africa’s exiled ANC cadres in Zimbabwe just after independence, forcing his party to shelter the Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas secretly. Dabengwa, who was giving a presentation at a two-day Umkhonto we Sizwe conference held in South Africa last week, said Zapu was…
The Zimbabwe government has been hailed for moving to repeal criminal laws enacted to try to prevent the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with officials conceding the regulations have failed to slow transmission of the deadly virus. The laws impose criminal penalties on people who know they have HIV and engage in behaviours…
As Manicaland cleans up the destruction brought by Cyclone Idai, which killed 51 pupils and caused more than US$2,7 million of infrastructural damage, it is emerging that thousands of children will have their education severely affected. There are still 70 pupils missing, and learners at St Charles Luwanga have refused to go back to class…
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has clinched a fellowship programme for local doctors with Merck Foundation that will aim to boost the limited number of oncologists in Zimbabwe and train the existing ones. The aim of the partnership is to build a strong platform of qualified medical, paediatric and surgical oncologists across Zimbabwe through the Merck…
RESPECTED MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says the main opposition party’s revered late founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is probably turning in his grave because of the toxic politics obtaining in the party that he had lived and sacrificed so much for. [Adz] Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Sunday last week, Mwonzora…
IT IS all systems go for the Cowdray Park local government election today. The election has for the past few weeks thrown the second largest city into political overdrive as contesting parties sought to outwit each other. [GoogleAd] Intensive campaigns have been the order of the day with parties throwing various resources in the field…
A LECTURER who works for a city college has been sentenced to an effective eight years in jail for raping his 19-year-old student. Felistas Kwenda, who is employed by Debmar College, raped the girl in February when she enrolled for a five-day till-operating course with the institution. Initially, Kwenda was sentenced to 12 years in…
