HARARE – Zimbabwean police are setting up safety cameras in high risk locations in Harare where smash and grabs from vehicles have been rife. Offenders will be snapped at selected intersections, with the CCTV system already installed at a hotspot around Avondale. “We are live and rolling out cameras at strategic points/intersections in Avondale,” the…
HARARE – American journalist Martha O’Donovan, facing charges of subversion and insulting former president Robert Mugabe on social media, yesterday slammed the State for infringing on her rights by seeking continuous postponements. O’Donovan’s lawyer Obey Shava sought refusal of further remand yesterday after prosecutor Tatenda Murindagomo failed to fulfil her undertaking to furnish the Magamba…
HARARE – The MDC Alliance, a coalition of seven opposition political parties, has said the national budget presented by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday is not feasible, adding that the projected four percent growth is pie in the sky. MDC Alliance policy committee chairperson Tendai Biti told a press conference at Harvest House that…
HARARE – Former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday formally paid $5 000 bail before he was finally released from Chikurubi Maximum Prison where he had been on remand for nearly two weeks. Chombo was ordered to pay $5 000 bail by the High Court on Thursday to end his hell in remand prison after he…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa last night began the re-configuration of the security sector when he appointed Zimbabwe Ambassador to South Africa and Lesotho Isaac Moyo as the new director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). Moyo replaces Happyton Bonyongwe who had been appointed Justice minister by former president Robert Mugabe in his last…
HARARE – Government has cut loose 3 700 national youth service workers reinstated by former president Robert Mugabe in July after they had initially been fired by the ministry of Public Service. The move is meant to slash the wage bill by dropping the unqualified youths. “Cabinet decision to abolish the youth officer posts under…
HARARE – Government is taking steps towards ending its economic isolation in its first budget since the end of Robert Mugabe’s 37-year authoritarian rule with Treasury announcing a package of measures aimed at wooing international investors, including new curbs on laws that require firms to be 51 percent locally owned. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said…
HARARE – Presidential spokesman George Charamba has for the first time given insights into some of the factors that contributed to the frosty relationship between former president Robert Mugabe and his war time colleagues. In his last days in office, Mugabe had been cut off from the old guard in Zanu PF, and put on…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has banned the importation of fuel by members of the public. In a notice issued yesterday, Zera said the Statutory Instrument which allowed the public to procure fuel has been repealed. The move seems aimed at curbing an illegal but thriving parallel market of liquid fuels, but…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has apologised for unusually long queues at Norton toll plaza due to the use of cashless payment methods. “Zinara and its partners have developed cashless solutions for paying toll fees as an innovative solution for the future. We are pleased that the innovative solutions for paying toll fees…
