HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is considering naming and shaming prominent residents who are not settling their ballooning rates and rentals arrears. This comes as the local authority is owed $600 million-plus by residents, industry and the government. In the latest council minutes, HCC’s finance director Tendai Kwenda said while debt collections from residents…
HARARE – DeltaTA Beverages (Delta) has been caught up in businessman Frank Buyanga’s property wrangles after retail trader Lawrence Muteswa registered two bonds — as surety for his obligations with the drinks maker — on a Borrowdale property previously sold to Hamilton Property Holdings (Hamilton). The development has not only thrown Zimbabwean deeds registrar into…
HARARE – Minister of State for Liaising on Psychomotor Activities in Education Josiah Hungwe has claimed that President Robert Mugabe asked him to choose a ministry of his choice in his Cabinet after the ruling Zanu PF party’s controversial 2013 poll win. Speaking at the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between his…
HARARE – Parliament’s Legal Committee (PLC) has rejected the Land Commission Bill, arguing that its attempts to give chiefs authority over agricultural land were ultra vires the new Constitution. This was revealed in a PLC report released last week by Parliament. Early this month, Senate president Edna Madzongwe announced that she had received an adverse…
HARARE – Ailing veteran musician Dickson “Cde Chinx” Chingaira — reportedly battling leukaemia — is getting financial assistance from the Office of the President, a family member revealed. The revolutionary musician was admitted at West End Hospital in Harare nearly a week ago after unknowingly suffering from the ailment for close to three years. “Cde…
HARARE – The High Court is today set to hear an appeal by MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, who says he was tortured while in police custody. Tamborinyoka is seeking to have police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri and other officials held accountable. He is demanding $200 000 compensation from the State after he was…
HARARE – War veterans must re-engage with the people if they want to be respected again, MDC deputy secretary-general Tapiwa Mashakada has said. The veterans have been President Robert Mugabe’s core loyalists since the country’s 1970s liberation war against white rule, often using violence to crush the opposition. “The war vets must sign a new…
HARARE – The main opposition MDC reiterated yesterday that it would not be stampeded into signing electoral pacts with other prospective partners, in a development which could fuel anxiety among prominent politicians hoping to be part of the mooted grand coalition to take on Zanu PF in next year’s watershed elections. This comes as opposition…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s deadly but fluid politics is witnessing yet another dramatic realignment of forces, with the warring former liberation movement now said to be courting youth leaders who were expelled two years ago on fuzzy charges of undermining President Robert Mugabe and his powerful wife Grace. This comes as national political commissar Saviour…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s claim that the ruling party is “fumigating” elements bent on weakening it ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections has angered some people who claim that the statement reminds them of the Gukurahundi killings of innocent civilians in the early 1980s. This comes as Mnangagwa’s name has been mentioned regularly…
