COUNCILLORS in Bulawayo are divided over which stretches of roads to prioritise during the rehabilitation exercise in and around the city. The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) disbursed over $600 million for the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2) which has since started and the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is yet to identify some roads…
SOUTH Korean Ambassador Do Bong-Kae has said his government will continue assisting Zimbabwe in the fight against Covid-19 and improving access to maternal healthcare. Bong-Kae made these remarks during a donation of maternity equipment worth US$12 000 by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) and Korea Alumni Association of Zimbabwe (Kaaz) to Pelandaba Clinic in…
THE Insurance and Pension Commission (Ipec) says the pensions sector has been on a growth trajectory despite business disruptions caused by Covid-19…
A HARARE woman has filed a High Court application seeking to bar the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s Chaplain General from administering her late husband’s affairs and sneak in his alleged second wife to be a beneficiary of his estate. According to the court papers, Beauty Maguneyi is the widow of a late former ZRP officer,…
A KWEKWE man, who had his roof removed from his home after failing to pay rent last year, has approached the High Court demanding US$30 436 from his landlord as compensation for damages incurred. In summons filed at the court last week, Regedzai Mutsinze claimed that he entered into a verbal agreement with Raymond Patrick…
MORE than 270 restaurant staff from across Harare yesterday received their first Covid-19 jabs courtesy of the Restaurant Operators’ Association of Zimbabwe (Roaz). This brings to almost 1 000 Roaz members in Harare alone with one or two vaccinations to date, in a drive to support the national effort to get all Zimbabweans vaccinated. The…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will retest its staff, who have been forced to isolate after contracting Covid-19 or were identified as contact persons, to enable them to resume work as the local authority is now short staffed. Last week, Bulawayo town clerk Christopher Dube revealed that council operations had been severely crippled with some…
ZANU PF Hwange district coordinating committee (DCC) is up in arms with hordes of coal mining companies, who it is accusing of causing pollution of Deka River as well as destruction of the town’s roads without ploughing back into the community. This emerged during a meeting which took place in the mining town on Tuesday where…
EIGHT Chitungwiza residents, who claim to be the joint owners of Braemer Farm in Seke, have filed an urgent chamber application seeking to stop the sale of the land to a third party by the local authority. This comes after the Chitungwiza Municipality on July 27 circulated a statement on social media directing people to…
A HARARE man lost US$420 to a sangoma in a money making ritual, prompting him to cause his arrest. Lloyd Malunga has since been charged with fraud and has been denied bail by Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga. It is alleged that on July 23, Malunga acting in connivance with John Banda and Ntotera Vokhiwa, who are…
