By Ketty Nyoni THE Harare City Council (HCC) says it has a plan in place to remove street vendors in the central business district (CBD), but feels that the task is near impossible due to the growing number of informal traders. This comes after the government on Tuesday gave the council a seven-day ultimatum to…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country’s security agencies are key in Zimbabwe’s goal to attain an upper-middle income society by 2030. Addressing a graduation ceremony of joint command and staff course at the Zimbabwe Defence University in Harare yesterday, the president added that the peace prevailing in the country was also key for economic growth….
POOR Zimbabweans look set to endure another difficult festive season, as the prices of basic goods continue to rise amid the accelerating slump of the Zim dollar on the parallel market. Yesterday, the hapless local unit was trading at an average of 9 000 to the much-coveted American dollar on the black market, although it…
Ketty Nyoni STAFF WRITER nyonik@dailynews.co.zw THERE was chaos yesterday as Harare councillors voted for a new mayor, after Ian Makone was recently recalled by his party. In the end, ward 36 councillor Lovejoy Chitengu was elected the new mayor of the capital city — in a race which saw Zanu PF protesting his eligibility vehemently….
THE government says it will intensify its war on street vendors in Harare’s central business district in order to curb the cholera outbreak if the Harare City Council fails to remove them. This comes as last week, the government ordered the Harare City Council to remove the vendors as the cholera outbreak spreads across the…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) says it has deployed investigators to probe operations of driving schools and those found not complying with the laws will be closed. This comes as some Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) inspectors are accused of conniving with some driving schools, receiving bribes from people seeking driver’s…
LAWYERS representing the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) told the High Court yesterday Sengezo Tshabangu, who asserts to be the party’s interim secretary-general, illegally used an MDC Alliance constitution to recall its legislators and councillors. Appearing before Justice Tawanda Chitapi after the CCC disowned Tshabangu as a bona-fide official, one of the CCC lawyers,…
SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts that he is the interim secretary-general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), is cranking up the heat on embattled party leader Nelson Chamisa and his key allies. This comes as Tshabangu has raised the stakes further in the strife-torn CCC, after he filed a High Court application yesterday — seeking…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday implored players in the construction sector to buy local products for the country’s economic growth. Speaking at the ground-breaking event of the phase four of Millennium Heights in Borrowdale West, Harare, Mnangagwa said his administration was creating a conducive environment for local businesses to grow. The construction is being done by…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it needs at least 900 new employees in its engineering department to fix sewer hotspots, which are posing as a health hazard across the city at a time the council is also on high alert over the resurgent cholera outbreak. Speaking at a council meeting yesterday, councillor Ntombizodwa Khumalo…
