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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…
Climate change induced droughts fuel exodus of young people in Matabeleland South
Lulu Brenda Harris
Lwazi Ndebele says she decided to join the great trek to South Africa after her village located along Zimbabwe’s border with Botswana experienced two years of successive droughts and putting food on the…
Gukurahundi ghost haunts Matabeleland schools
Despite a slight national improvement in the Grade 7 pass rate from 45.57% in 2023 to 49.01% in 2024, Matabeleland continues to struggle with alarmingly poor results
Uproar Over Government Plan to Privatise Water Supply
Edgar Gweshe
Harare - A major confrontation is brewing between the government and residents’ associations across the country over a plan to privatise water provision in Harare, Bulawayo, and Victoria Falls.
Residents’ associations…
Baobab tree, local livelihoods under threat in Chimanimani
Pamenus Tuso
Chimanimani—For generations, the baobab tree has been a vital lifeline for local communities in some parts of arid Chimanimani district in Manicaland province.
Villagers in Nyanyadzi and Gudyanga areas off the…