HARARE – A burst sewer pipe running across Marimba River has been discharging raw effluent into the water body which feeds into Lake Chivero. The pipe has been discharging the toxic sewer for more than a week, according residents of nearby Gracelands. Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni said while the issue was being attended to, the…
HARARE – Anti-President Robert Mugabe activist Promise Mkwananzi yesterday notified the court of his intentions to file for further remand refusal because there are no State witnesses for trial to progress. He — together with 21 other activists — appeared before magistrate Lazini Ncube facing public violence charges following bloody clashes between protesters and the…
HARARE – Government must consider lifting the freeze on magistrates’ recruitment as there is a serious shortage of staff in the judiciary, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) said. Speaking at a swearing in ceremony of three trainee magistrates at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday, chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe said “only 201 magistrates are serving out…
HARARE – The Transport ministry has engaged the army to assist in the reconstruction of bridges washed away by rampaging floods, Parliament has been told. This comes as torrential rains have swept away five bridges along major highways across the country. The destroyed bridges include Nkankezi along Zvishavane-Mbalabala road in Matabeleland South, Jeka Bridge along…
HARARE – Mines minister Walter Chidakwa was taken to task in Parliament on Wednesday over a “missing” $100 million loan that President Robert Mugabe said had been given to small scale miners. After being asked by MDC MP for Musikavanhu Prosper Mutseyami to shed more light on the matter, Chidakwa requested for more time. “Previously…
HARARE – Zimbabwe faces an early winter as temperatures are gradually decreasing, the Meteorological Services Department (Met) said yesterday. The department’s public weather services head, Tich Zinyemba, said “even though it is early days yet, there continues to be a palpable cooling in morning temperatures, indicative of the gradual transition from summer to winter”. While…
HARARE – Evan Mawarire yesterday demanded that the State furnish him with a trial date or remove him from remand, but the application was dismissed. Mawarire, whose independent social media movement #ThisFlag, catalysed citizens’ frustration with President Robert Mugabe regime during last year’s protests against the government’s inaction against corruption, impunity and poverty, faces a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s inflation has moved into positive territory for the first time in two years as a result of depreciating value in bond notes, a leading think-tank said yesterday. Cape Town-based NKC African Economics said consumers were absorbing the increase in prices of goods and services as the surrogate currency has lost 30 percent…
HARARE – The Health ministry has issued a cholera outbreak alert after two people died while two others are being treated of the disease in Manicaland and Masvingo provinces. The highly communicable disease is believed to have spread from neighbouring Mozambique, where a cholera epidemic — infecting more than 1 000 people — was triggered…
HARARE – Litigants are now able to attach government property over debts after the High Court invalidated the State Liabilities Act, which it said was being used by the authorities to evade paying its dues. The March 15, landmark ruling was handed down after Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro — through his lawyer Tawanda Zhuwarara…
