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HARARE – Residents have expressed outrage over Harare City Council (HCC)’s move to appoint employees currently under corruption probes as substantive directors. The local authority confirmed Hosea Chisango (responsible for water), Tendai Kwenda (finance) and Edmore Nhekairo (housing) as directors this week. Their appointments come after Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere ordered the city to…

HARARE – Activist group United Nations Watch (UNW) has expressed disgust over the hailing of Zimbabwe’s human rights record by “rogue” States — Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. While the three countries, with controversial governance records, praised Zimbabwe’s “promotion and protection of human rights” at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council meeting last weekend,…

HARARE – Scores of Harare residents are exposed to deadly water-borne diseases — cholera and typhoid — after an Oxfam Zimbabwe (Oxfam) survey revealed that more boreholes in high density suburbs are “significantly contaminated”. This comes as Zimbabwe is battling to contain yet another cholera and typhoid outbreak which killed two people in Hatcliffe and…

HARARE – The heavy rains that have been pounding most parts of Zimbabwe over the past weeks are set to continue, with most areas forecast to receive excesses of 30 millimetres (mm) per day. According to Meteorological Services Department (Met)’s forecaster, John Mupuro, “thunder showers are expected for the rest of the country with heavier…

HARARE – Angry war veterans vowed yesterday to engineer President Robert Mugabe’s ouster from power “the Kalisto Pasuwa way” in next year’s eagerly-anticipated elections if the nonagenarian does not pass the leadership baton to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Addressing hundreds of former freedom fighters who had gathered in Harare, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe National…

HARARE – Zanu PF women’s league deputy secretary, Eunice Sandi Moyo, yesterday thumbed her nose at her fellow ruling party bigwigs who are pushing for her summary expulsion from the strife-torn former liberation movement. Addressing a hastily-arranged press conference yesterday, the emotional Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister vowed that she would only resign or leave the…

HARARE – Harare magistrate Barbra Chimboza yesterday freed 74 protesters accused of burning State-owned vehicles during an anti-President Robert Mugabe demonstration dubbed #MyZimbabwe last year. The 74 — together with freelance journalist James Jemwa — were acquitted following a successful application by their attorneys Harrison Nkomo and Trust Maanda for discharge at the close of…

HARARE – War veterans are set to meet today in Harare to discuss Zimbabwe’s deepening political and economic crisis amid a tense atmosphere, as defiant opposition parties yesterday staged a demonstration, despite a warning by the police. The ex-freedom fighters’ indaba, initially scheduled for last Friday, was postponed after law enforcement agents refused to sanction…

HARARE – The auditor-general (AG) has called for an investigation into the multi-million dollar Harare International Airport (HIA) rehabilitation tender awarded to a Chinese contractor, saying its cost was grossly inflated. The cost of the project — overseen by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) — was initially $22 million in 2009, but by…

HARARE – Tsholotsho villagers are living in squalor, weeks after their homes and belongings were destroyed by ravaging floods. According to World Vision, five people are sharing a single blanket at Sipepa Transit Camp, which houses about 1 265 victims, while averages of 18 people are squeezed into each of the available 69 tents. The…