BULAWAYO – Tax authorities in South Africa have seized a crematorium machine from Japan headed for Bulawayo in a payment dispute, according to the city council. [GoogleAd] The machine is used in the disposal of a dead person’s body by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony. The imported crematorium was supposed to complement…
HARARE – The new measures recently unveiled by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya have been credited with stabilising prices — with youthful Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena — becoming the latest businessman to back them to succeed. [GoogleAd] This comes as manufacturers have reported significant improvement in sourcing their raw materials following the restoration…
HARARE – Harare City Council is now under pressure to rehabilitate its boreholes as the city starts instituting a strict water rationing regime that should see residents receiving water at least twice a week. [GoogleAd] According to the new water rationing schedule for March, only Mbare, Highfield, Sunnigdale, Mufakose, Graniteside, Willowvale, Ardbennie, Southerton Industrial area and the…
HARARE –President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under pressure government has hired a top American reputation management firm — to spruce up Zimbabwe’s international image and to lobby President Donald Trump’s government in a bid to improve frosty relations between Harare and Washington. [GoogleAd] This comes after a disappointed Trump renewed America’s targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe for another year…
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe has donated pain relief medication to Harare Central Hospital worth RTGS $89 000. The donation by Stanbic Bank comes at a time there is an acute shortage of drugs and will see the hospital’s paediatric, maternity and adult wards receiving an assortment pain relief medication to cover the next three months. [GoogleAd]…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hosted leaders of a variety of major Zimbabwean corporations, entrepreneurs, business executives and intellectuals who have joined his administration’s advisory board on economic issues. The panel held its first meeting yesterday afternoon at the State House complex. [GoogleAd] Mnangagwa and his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi attended the session,…
BULAWAYO – The trial of five minors arrested together with a gang of looters during the January fuel price hike riots in Bulawayo’s Emakhandeni suburb failed to kick off again yesterday. [GoogleAd] The minors aged between six and 13 years appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing theft charges. Caroline Matanga, representing the State, postponed the…
MUTARE – The late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai’s estate executors have taken over a $50 000 lawsuit in the High Court in which a Harare man is demanding that principal amount from the late former trade unionist. [GoogleAd] The man is claiming $50 000 for the role he claimed he played in stitching up a coalition deal…
HARARE – Another MDC legislator Charlton Hwende was yesterday remanded in custody after appearing in court on subversion charges. Hwende’s arrest came immediately after Harare West MDC MP Joana Mamombe was sent to remand prison on Tuesday over the same allegations that the opposition leaders incited Zimbabweans to overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa. [GoogleAd] He was represented by…
Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance yesterday angrily reacted to the incarceration of its deputy treasurer-general and Kuwadzana East MP Charlton Hwende on charges of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government, saying holding divergent views does not constitute treasonous conduct. [GoogleAd] Several MDC Alliance MPs including Amos Chibaya and Joanna Mamombe are facing the same charge. Bekithemba…
