HARARE – A French company — Razel BEC — has been granted a $300 million contract to rehabilitate the Kariba plunge pool and flood gates in order to stop the dam’s wall from collapsing. The project — funded by the European Union, World Bank, African Development Bank, the Swedish government and the Zimbabwe River Authority…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has admitted that the country’s roads are now a “national embarrassment”, but argued they could not do much as a huge chunk of their revenue was being gobbled by heavy taxes. The Administration refused to shoulder the blame for the country’s derelict roads, contending that local authorities were…
HARARE – A lion that was supposed to have been sedated caused chaos in the resort town of Kariba last week, after it unexpectedly woke up and charged at curious onlookers who had gathered to watch wildlife experts treating its wounds. More than 500 residents of Nyamhunga Township, who had gathered to witness the rare…
HARARE – In a sensational claim that is set to rip the troubled Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) further apart, former State Security minister and one of the founders of the fledgling party, Didymus Mutasa, has accused former Vice President Joice Mujuru of working with the country’s dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). Speaking to the Daily…
HARARE – Zimbabwe faces a red locust invasion which further threatens maize and wheat yields, as the country battles to control fall army worm that has ravaged crops. The red locusts — a large grasshopper species — are aggressive and destructive crop-eating pests that move in swarms, feeding on vegetation in its path. International Red…
HARARE – The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is relying on letters to communicate with train operators, risking derailment and collisions, board chairman Larry Mavhima has told Parliament. Giving oral evidence before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport on Monday, Mavhima said the ailing parastatal desperately needs $400 million to turn around its waning fortunes….
HARARE – Four family members who died in a well on a mission to drain water using a submersible pump, needlessly lost their lives, a residents group has said. Cleopas Jokomera and his three sons, Cleopas Jr, Macliff and Tom died in Budiriro 4 from inhaling carbon monoxide as they were using a submersible pump…
HARARE – High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi yesterday summoned acting prosecutor-general (PG) Ray Goba to explain the import of his request for the judge to recuse himself from handling the criminal trial of suspended prosecutor-general Johannes Tomana. Tomana is facing criminal abuse of office charges. Goba wrote a letter to Judge president George Chiweshe raising…
HARARE – Sweden’s new ambassador to Zimbabwe, Sofia Calltorp, has said she would immediately start working to restart stalled investment here and resume exports from the southern African country that plummeted after the controversial land grab programme. Welcoming pledges from President Robert Mugabe for improved cooperation after presenting her credentials at the State House on…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government is struggling to complete the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)’s headquarters (HQ) because of financial constraints, the Senate heard last week. The building has been under construction for more than a decade. Local Government deputy minister Christopher Chingosho told a question and answer session that “economic hardships” were hampering…
