HARARE – Exiled outspoken Chimurenga music icon — Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo who was an arch critic of deposed former president Robert Mugabe — has appealed to sceptical Zimbabweans to give his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa more time to show if he is the right man to lead the country. He was not alone as MDC MP…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for a crisis meeting with business leaders to try and find a solution to high prices placed on basic commodities which have triggered an outcry from long-suffering consumers. Mnangagwa, who is largely viewed as pro-business in his approach has, however, ruled out imposing price controls. Speaking soon after…
BULAWAYO – As the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national polls beckon, the People’s Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to introduce security sector reforms to guarantee the holding of free and fair elections then. Mnangagwa recently reconfigured the security sector, retiring and promoting several security chiefs who served under former president Robert Mugabe, as he…
HARARE – Deposed former president Robert Mugabe’s eye-watering exit package has triggered widespread anger among ordinary Zimbabweans and opposition groups alike — who say it is outrageous that a man who presided over the country’s political and economic collapse should “cream it” like this. Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for close to…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has given the country’s deposed former leader Robert Mugabe an eye-watering exit package which includes benefits commensurate with those of a sitting head of State. Details of the frail nonagenarian’s massive golden handshake were announced in the Government Gazette on Friday under Presidential Pension and Retirement Packages Notice 2017….
HARARE – High Court judge Felistas Chatukuta has interdicted the Harare City Council from constructing a bus terminus opposite Rhodesville Police Station in Harare following an objection lodged by Hillside and Eastlea residents. The applicant was Munyaradzi Mutsai and 19 others, while the respondent was the City of Harare, Local Government minister July Moyo, Tourism…
HARARE – Chicken-raring in residential areas poses a serious health risk that has largely been ignored by authorities because of the country’s economic hardships, the Manicaland Poultry Producers Association MPPA) has said. The association’s chairperson, Enoch Mbendani, told Eastern News that government must bring the practice to a stop as it puts the public’s health…
HARARE – An employee with Premier Tobacco Auction Floors has been charged with fraud after she allegedly hacked into the banking system of a local financial institution from which she spirited nearly $10 000. Lizzie Kandengwa, 40, was released on $50 bail when she appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande charged with fraud. As part…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged the ever bumbling local authorities to up their game and start providing clean water to residents and end recurrences of waterborne diseases. This comes as Harare has in the last 12 months been the epicentre of the typhoid outbreak as it contributed to more than 70 percent of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is struggling to contain maternal deaths with the ministry of Health and Child Care revealing that at least 242 women died while giving birth in 2017, almost half the number of deaths recorded in 2016. Observers say the number could be higher since some cases are never reported. Zimbabwe records between 500…
