HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) will temporarily close the iconic Mbare bus terminus for two days from today to allow for renovations. The closure will also allow council to fence menacing touts off the terminus. In a statement yesterday, HCC corporate communications manager Michael Chideme said the move was aimed at making sure council…
HARARE – An association representing visually-impaired teachers has made an application to the Public Service and Social Welfare ministry seeking recognition by government. According to a notice by former Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira in Friday’s government gazette, the association — Zimbabwe Visually Impaired Teachers Union (Zvitu) — will represent interests of visually-impaired teachers employed…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC ) is on a drive to abolish estimate billing by replacing malfunctioning water meters with conventional meters. This comes as residents have long complained about being overcharged through estimate billing, a concern which has been partly addressed by the introduction of prepaid water meters. In an interview with the…
HARARE – Five police officers were dragged to court last week after they allegedly solicited for bribes from illegal foreign currency dealers in order to spare them arrest. This comes as authorities have launched a massive blitz on illegal foreign currency traders. The five — 34-year-old Victor Ruzvidzo, Evans Tafirenyika, 41, Job Mukiwa, 32, Kenneth…
HARARE – Global online technology giant, Google – through its local chapter, Google Developers Groups — hosted scores of web developers from the region in Harare over the weekend to interrogate latest technologies and their impact on Africa’s development. The event, Google Developers Festival (DevFest), also looked into how Google technologies can be implemented to…
HARARE – Outraged Chitungwiza residents have fiercely resisted the hiring of debt collectors by the town’s local authority, arguing the move is oppressive to struggling ratepayers. The concerns were expressed during two-day budget consultation meetings last week. The rejection of debt collectors by Chitungwiza comes as Harare residents have also been fiercely resisting Harare City…
HARARE – Anti-President Robert Mugabe cleric, Philip Mugadza, has said he is going to run for the Gutu South parliamentary seat in next year’s elections. Mugadza — famed for prophesying that Mugabe would die on October 17 this year — said he was tired and becoming a “professional complainer” by making countless petitions, which were…
HARARE – Government has granted national project status to the $3 billion Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project following months of protracted negotiations. The dispensation, approved last week Friday, paves way for the project’s financier, Austria-based Geiger International (Geiger), to start moving equipment into the country duty free. Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Joram Gumbo, told the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has introduced a new user-friendly Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ARV) drug which experts say has fewer side effects on users, and also increases adherence to treatment. The new combination drug called Tenofovir, Lamivudine, Efavirenz — also known as TLE400 — is said to be the current treatment of choice globally in the first line…
HARARE – The dog-eat-dog war between the two major Zanu PF factions angling to influence President Robert Mugabe’s hotly-contested succession is set to get nastier after the ruling party decided to cancel its annual conference in December and replace it with a special congress. Insiders told the Daily News yesterday that the decision to cancel…
