Browsing Category
LATEST NEWS
Minister July Moyo named in controversial land deal
NKULUMANI MLAMBO
Local Government minister July Moyo facilitated a controversial takeover of land belonging to the Masvingo City Council by a Midlands based giant steel maker at below market rates in a deal that has deprived poor…
Displaced villagers bitter with lithium miner
Sofia Mapuranga
Parched rural Buhera in Manicaland province, southeastern Zimbabwe, witnessed rare pomp and glitz in December 2022 when President Emmerson Mnangagwa came down with a high-powered delegation.
The entourage included the…
Zanu PF rallies leave travellers stranded
Pamenus Tuso
Bulawayo--SCORES of passengers intending to travel to Harare and other destinations via pre-booked ZUPCO services were left stranded in Bulawayo this week following the public transporter’s decision to redeploy buses to Zanu…
Masvingo loses thousands fighting engineer’s return
Moses Ziyambi
City of Masvingo is spending thousands of US dollars fighting the return of Tawanda Gozo, the city engineer it fired in 2021 but was reinstated by the Local Government Board (LGB).
With the full backing of council, the…
Masvingo municipality pursues US$137 000 bitumen conmen
Moses Ziyambi
City of Masvingo has taken to the High Court to recover more than US$137,000 from the directors of a defunct company—then Norton-based—which defrauded the municipality in a botched bitumen supply deal seven years ago.
In…
Health ministry displays air ambulances from Russia
Jeffrey Moyo
Government on Tuesday displayed its newly acquired air ambulances from Russia to doctors and nurses at Parirenyatwa and Sally Mugabe hospitals, the biggest hospitals in the country.
This follows a recent outcry that the…
FAZ fails to pay recruits
Staff Reporter
Forever Associates of Zimbabwe Trust (FAZ), an affiliate of the ruling Zanu PF that is operating under the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to mainly campaign for President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of the 2023…
Foreigners ‘invade’ retail space reserved for locals as Zanu PF officials cash in on exorbitant…
Thandiwe Garusa
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have been allocating retail licenses to foreigners in contravention of the law, investigations have established.
Retail space in the capital Harare is now dominated by Indians, Chinese,…
Unmasking land barons’ modus operandi: A case of Hopley’s desperate home seekers facing eviction
As a staunch Zanu PF supporter my eviction has become one of the most embarrassing moments in my life'
BY MARSHALL BWANYA
HARARE – At a time President Emmerson Mnangagwa is touting his administration’s commitment to flush out land…
Councillors fired over graft bounce back as CCC candidates
Stephen Chadenga
Two former Gweru councillors who were fired by the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T more than a decade ago for alleged corruption have resurfaced as Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates for the 2023 harmonised…