HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has been ordered to stop demolishing any more structures from Eyrestone Farm. According to the order issued by High Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore, it argued that the demolitions were unlawful. The interdict comes after Harare South Housing Apex Cooperative Society had approached the High Court seeking an order…
HARARE – A 54-YEAR-OLD man has been convicted of physical abuse after he bashed his 53-year-old wife for harvesting pumpkin leaves against his advice. Charles Sigauke, of Yeovil Extension, was convicted after a full trial by magistrate Lazarus Murendo. He awaits sentencing. [GoogleAd] He was charged with contravening Section (3) (1) as read with Section…
Govt to launch village ICT centres MUTARE – Government plans to set up more community information centres (CICs), particularly in rural Manicaland, with at least 40 containerised ones on the cards, as part of efforts to provide e-government services. Most of the centres will be at post offices. Speaking on the side-lines of a tour…
MUTARE – Zimbabwe is only left with about two commercial coffee farmers on 300 hectares, down from 145 who were farming over 7 600 hectares before 2004. Zimbabwe Coffee Mill director Johane Jori told the Eastern News in an exclusive interview that the two are complemented by 400 smallholder farmers on 77 hectares. There were…
HARARE – Land owners in Bubi Rural District Council could lose unused land to the local authority, which is seeking to fully utilise idle land as part of its turnaround drive, a new by-law showed yesterday. The by-laws, which govern both communal and resettlement land, will see stringent measures being taken against land users not…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has granted the few remaining white commercial farmers 99-year leases in a bid to enable them to secure financing from banks and to pay rent towards the compensation fund. This comes as evicted white farmers have reportedly tabled a $9 billion compensation claim before Mnangagwa for assets expropriated during…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has won an award for the progress it has made towards eliminating malaria, a disease that still kills a child on the African continent every two minutes. Zimbabwe, Algeria, Comoros, Madagascar, the Gambia and Senegal achieved a reduction in the incidence of malaria of more than 20 percent from 2015 to 2016,…
HARARE – Trasnsport minister Joram Gumbo yesterday vowed to fire Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials and blacklist driving schools undermining the integrity of the driver’s licence by corruptly issuing the documents. A miffed Gumbo turned his guns on VID driving examiners who are issuing certificates of competency and provisional driver’s licences corruptly. Corruption at VID,…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday reserved judgment in an application filed by two MDC MPs Innocent Gonese and Fungayi Jessie Majome, who are challenging the passage of Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 1 in Parliament. Gonese is the MDC chief whip and MP for Mutare Central Constituency, while Majome is the MP…
HARARE – ZANU PF has been thrown into fresh turmoil as party officials aiming to represent the party in the forthcoming elections are engaged in a war of words. The Daily News can report that battle lines have been drawn in the ruling party ahead of the polls with incumbent Members of Parliament and councillors…
