THE Harare City Council (HCC) has announced that the ongoing rehabilitation of the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant is scheduled for completion in the next 14 months. The extensive project involves upgrading the treatment plant, installing a smart metering system, and repairing the dilapidated distribution network in phases. This initiative comes as residents continue to…
ZANU PF must resolve its internal contradictions or risk seeing the country’s economy collapsing completely. So warns the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), which wants the ruling party to put Zimbabwe ahead of political plots. This comes as Zanu PF is preparing to hold its annual conference in Mutare this month, amid worsening ructions in…
POLICE have incinerated vast quantities of illegal drugs and substances at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital’s incinerators following crucial court disposal orders. This dramatic destruction on Monday highlighted the intensified national effort by law enforcement to combat the scourge of drug and substance abuse plaguing the country. In a statement, police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi confirmed…
Tapiwa Chirume THE Harare City Council has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to residents and traders illegally occupying municipal land in Glen View, warning that it will forcibly evict offenders, demolish structures, and impound property if they fail to comply. In a notice dated October 6, 2025, the local authority ordered individuals occupying council land without…
Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat ZIMBABWE’s power crisis is once again threatening to spiral out of control, unless authorities act with more urgency to shore up Zesa and to compel defaulting farmers to pay for their electricity. This comes as the country is once again experiencing brutal power cuts, amid growing concerns that the blackouts…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER A CHITUNGWIZA man allegedly ransacked the Office of the President twice and other government offices and stole property worth US$23 000. Romeo Kurai Pemba yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Tapiwa Kuhudzai and pleaded guilty to nine counts of unlawful entry. He awaits formal plea recording today. It is the State’s…
Takudzwa Dhambu and Thabiso Mutirwara HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume has announced plans to establish a designated dumpsite for abandoned or malfunctioning vehicles parked illegally across the city. This follows the recent tragedy in Kuwadzana Extension, where the bodies of three missing children were discovered in the boot of a parked car a day after they…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER TWO Zanu PF officials who allegedly illegally parcelled out land in Hopley, Harare, to more than 200 residents appeared in court yesterday facing US$1.5 million fraud charges. Phinias Muchichwa and Anderson Frendson, who are district party officials in Hopley, were remanded in custody and are expected back in court on…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO-BASED company, Luzern Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, has been fined US$400 after being caught selling unregistered skin-lightening creams worth nearly US$1 000. The company’s sales representative, Simelweyinkosi Kanye of Bellevue suburb, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Maxwell Ncube on behalf of the firm. Luzern Enterprises was convicted of selling unregistered medicines following…
ZIMBABWE now has one of the most unequal societies in the world, which is neither good nor sustainable, veteran economist and presidential biographer Eddie Cross has said. The concerned Cross lamented at the weekend that while a few people in the country, who included both black and white, had amassed obscene wealth — many of…
