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Harare city title deeds plan for Mbare flats courts residents’ ire
Takunda Mandura
Harare—Mbare flats, built in colonial time era, stand as a stark reminder of the country’s grim urban history.
And decades of neglect have left these structures in a perilous state, with crumbling walls, leaking pipes,…
Chimanimani council sets up illegal levy roadblock
Pamenus Tuso
Chimanimani—Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Felix Mhona, has directed the Chimanimani Rural District Council (RDC), to dismantle an illegal timber levy collection roadblock that the local authority set up…
Norton council blocks community projects over political differences with sitting MP
Marshall Bwanya
Norton – Norton Town Council (NTC) is facing criticism for obstructing local legislator Richard Tsvangirai’s plans to build a school in Kingsdale in Ward 2 and renovate the maternity ward at Norton…
Health crisis feared amid water contamination in Mash West
Edgar Gweshe
Kariba—Residents have raised the alarm over a potential health disaster following the contamination of five water bodies by industrial effluent and sewage in Mashonaland West province.
This development also threatens…
EMA Halts Controversial Housing Project on Borrowdale Wetland
Marshall Bwanya
Harare—The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) rapidly intervened to halt a potentially devastating housing development on a crucial wetland in Greystone Park in Borrowdale, Harare.
Local residents raised alarm last…
Self-imposed headman turns land baron, sells 70% of village
Pauline Chateuka
Seke—Takesure Tichana, a self-appointed village head, has been accused of facilitating illegal communal land sales in his village located in Ward 6, Chirimamhunga of rural Seke.
As a result, reports indicate, 70…
Banned riverbed mining persists as corrupt security agents connive with illegal miners
Marshall Bwanya
Harare–Riverbed mining mainly involving artisanal and illegal miners in the gold-rich Penhalonga area in Manicaland province has persisted despite a government ban proclaimed last year, NewsHub has established.…
Zanu PF MP Named in Corrupt Land Deals
Pauline Chateuka
Harare – The Harare South lawmaker, Trymore Kanopula, has been implicated in corrupt deals in his constituency.
The Zanu PF legislator—who is popularly known as TK—is being accused of participating in questionable…
Lifeline for Kariba fishmongers battered by effects of drought
Elvis Dumba
THE Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has reduced the minimum allowable fishing depth in Lake Kariba from 20 to 17 metres to alleviate the plight of fishmongers who were struggling to survive…
Unmasking the rot at City of Harare
Edgar Gweshe
Harare—In May 2024, President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a commission of inquiry into financial and corporate mismanagement at Harare City Council.
Led by a retired High Court judge, Maphios Cheda, the commission was…