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Bulawayo municipality supports youth-led climate responses
Pamenus Tuso
Bulawayo—The Bulawayo City Council has allocated 30 percent of its climate finance to youth- and women-led climate change mitigation projects.
Speaking at the launch of the city’s sustainability monograph on Monday, the…
ZESA sweats under mega-million debt
Fortune Nkosi
Bulawayo—The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA Holdings) is grappling with a huge debt that includes US$350 million incurred in the refurbishment of Kariba South Power Station (KSPS) units, the power utility has…
Community trusts struggle to survive
Fortune Nkosi
Bulawayo—Zimbabwe’s community share ownership trusts (CSOTs), once hailed as a ‘revolutionary’ tool for empowering local communities through the exploitation of natural resources, are now facing significant challenges that…
Residents’ heads poke holes in Harare commission of inquiry
Brenna Matendere
Harare—The Mafios Cheda commission of inquiry into the affairs of the capital must broaden its focus to include central government, which is also responsible for the rot at the Harare municipality, observers have urged.…
Chinese miner violates ancestral graveyard, banned by EMA
Kovedzayi Takawira
Zvimba—The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has halted the operations of a Chinese-owned quarry miner, Berrytech Investments, amid an uproar from residents of Ward 25 in Zvimba East district in Mashonaland West…
Local authorities “forced” to fund First Lady’s Valentine’s charity
Sofia Mapuranga
Harare—President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxillia, is once again in the spotlight following a directive by the Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) for local authorities to fund her Valentine ’s Day charity…
Potential VOA Shutdown Threatens Information Blackout for Zimbabwe’s Marginalised Communities
Martin Sithole
Harare—As the world commemorates World Radio Day under the theme "Radio and Climate Change: A Powerful Tool for Climate Action", Zimbabweans who rely on Voice of America’s (VOA’s) Studio 7 are bracing for a potential…
Harare Quarry Scandal: A typical tale of mismanagement and embezzlement
Takunda Mandura
Harare—A multi-million loan, a forensic audit, missing funds and just about nothing to show for anything.
This sums up the scandal involving Harare City Council’s quarry business entity.
In 2017, the City of Harare…
Mnangagwa sacks provincial minister as Zanu PF factional brawls escalate
Marshall Bwanya
Harare—President Emmerson Mnangagwa has abruptly sacked Apollonia Munzverengwi, a relative of his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, from her post as Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs and Devolution minister.
The sacking…
Gokwe paramount chief raises dust over illegal cattle seizures
Marshall Bwanya
Gokwe—A paramount chief, Misheck Njelele of Gokwe, recently seized 16 cattle belonging to eight residents of Zebedia Village for purported offences that never went to trial, it has emerged.
Traditional justice requires…