HARARE – Harare deputy mayor Christopher Mbanga has resigned following allegations of his continued support of Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere. Mbanga was suspended last year by the MDC provincial leadership — led by Eric Murai — after he sided with Kasukuwere over the expulsion of embattled town clerk James Mushore from Town House. In…
HARARE – Villagers at Arnold Farm in Mazowe have rushed back to court after the police “defied” a High Court ruling stopping their eviction. The contempt hearing has been set down for tomorrow. The villagers, who are reportedly being evicted to make way for the expansion of First Lady Grace Mugabe’s business empire, are now…
HARARE – A married 78-year-old woman, who had sex in the bush with her 65-year-old boyfriend before allegedly murdering him by pulling his privates after an altercation, has been dragged to the High Court facing murder charges. Meddas Hamadziripi, from Pfungwe, ran out of luck in 2015 after she was forced to confess her best…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s health institutions are being manned by unqualified staff as a result of a recruitment freeze imposed by government, Parliament has been told. Health ministry secretary Gerald Gwinji told the Parliament’s Public Accounts portfolio committee on Monday that the situation was so bad at some hospitals to the extent that general hands were…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, wily as ever, has once again run rings around brawling Zanu PF factions over the appointment of the country’s new chief justice — after he apparently picked the highly-regarded jurist, Luke Malaba, to succeed Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku who retired from the bench at the end of last month. Well-placed sources…
HARARE – In a surprising turn of events, the top 50 office bearers of the Zanu PF women’s league, who met in Harare yesterday, did not make a definitive public pronouncement on the fate of embattled party heavyweights Eunice Sandi Moyo and Sarah Mahoka — instead passing the buck on the hot potato issue to…
HARARE – Ex-Finance minister Tendai Biti has said it is too late for Zimbabwe to adopt the South African rand as a dominating currency. Writing on his Twitter account, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader said: “Too late to adopt rand. Economy now in so much disequilibrium without reforms Zanu will bastardise the rand…
HARARE – Government has begun deducting a five percent health levy on all airtime purchases in a desperate bid to raise funds to acquire drugs and equipment for public hospitals. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa proposed in his 2017 National Budget to introduce the tax on airtime and mobile data, under the ‘‘Talk-Surf and Save a…
HARARE – The raft of taxes imposed by the hard-pressed government could do more harm than good to Zimbabwe’s economy, as the move overburdens long-suffering citizens and threatens small businesses’ survival, economic analysts have warned. They said as the desperate President Robert Mugabe administration “lays hands on anything that gives it money”, the latest move…
HARARE – While groundwater tested in 28 boreholes from 30 of Harare’s suburbs is clear of cholera-causing E.Coli bacteria, some of the water is highly acidic and contains rust from rotten plumbing equipment. Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council (UMSCC) chairperson Endy Mhlanga said the assessment was conducted in Greater Harare suburbs such as Mabvuku, Borrowdale, Greencroft…
