HARARE – Combined Mvurwi Residents Association (Comra) has engaged the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) over water disconnections. A statement by the residents’ pressure group chairperson Emmanuel Nkambala, noted that water disconnections were not advisable in a period when the country is battling a serious cholera epidemic that has already claimed at least 31 lives…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) said they will deploy water bowsers and tanks to parts of the city which are facing water cuts this weekend. Harare mayor Herbert Gomba said they are doing this to avert the spread of cholera. “I have directed that they must make sure that water should be available this…
HARARE – Nelson Chamisa’s MDC is strengthening measures to enforce gender parity in the party’s leadership rings, as evidenced recently in Victoria Falls where the elected mayor stepped down to pave way for a female contestant. Chamisa ordered Victoria Falls mayor Somvelo Dlamini to step down and make way for Margaret Varley, whose nomination had…
HARARE – Opposition parties have slammed government for deploying disproportionate force to drive out vendors from the streets of Harare. In the wake of the declaration of a state of emergency after a cholera outbreak in the capital that has so far killed over 30 people, government invoked the Public Health Act, banning all public…
HARARE – Harare City Council’s new town clerk Hosea Chisango must push the service delivery agenda ahead of trivial issues, residents said yesterday. Chisango who has been the acting town clerk since December last year, replaces Tendai Mahachi, who left town house in 2014. Before Chisango took over the post on an acting basis, chamber…
HARARE – Suspended Harare City Council (HCC) directors will know their fate once their cases have been concluded by the Labour Court. Human resources committee chairperson Jacob Mafume told the Daily News the city would have to work with people in acting roles for those positions. Last December, HCC suspended chamber secretary Josephine Ncube, director…
HARARE – The Eunice Sandi Moyo-led National Patriotic Front yesterday dispelled claims by a rival faction of NPF led by retired Brigadier General Ambrose Mutinhiri that the party has been disbanded because it had outlived its purpose. Jealousy Mawarire, the national spokesperson of the Sandi-Moyo faction, said Mutinhiri is neither the president nor the spokesperson…
HARARE – The Registrar-General’s department says it will this month host churches to discuss the newly-gazetted statutory instrument on marriages. The conference will be held on September 27, 2018 at Tobacco Hall, Harare Show Grounds at 10am. “The Registrar-General’s department would like to advise all heads of church denominations that the department will be hosting…
HARARE – Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday underwent what sources said had been a “successful” emergency surgery at a Harare hospital for a kidney-related ailment, the Daily News can report. The serious medical condition forced Moyo to miss the crucial United Nations General Assembly meeting in the United States, where Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is set to conduct a rummage sale auction of forfeited and uncleared motor vehicles and goods at Forbes Border Post, Mt Selinda and Mutare Customs House next Wednesday. This comes a few months after the authority’s Commissioner-General, Faith Mazani, instructed auctioneers to hold rummage sales for uncleared goods currently…
