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By-elections marked by below-par voter turn-out
Brenna Matendere
Harare—All the wards recorded below-par voter turnout during the council by-elections that were conducted last Saturday in different parts of the country, a report by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) shows.…
Zimbabwe’s Look East Policy bears fruit as Chinese investments spike
By Own Correspondent- Twenty years after formally adopting the Look East Policy in the face of economic sanctions by the West, Zimbabwe is finally reaping rewards from its strong ties with China as evidenced by the rolling out of big…
Belarus mining investor sub-contracts the Chinese
Kenneth Matimaire
THE highly publicised Belarusian investors that were awarded a special mining grant amassing vast tracts of mining land along Mutare River have been sub-contracting other firms to undertake alluvial gold mining, it has…
Chinese lithium miner back, unsettles Mutoko villagers
By Thando Khumalo
SCORES of villagers in Mutoko, a mineral-rich district about 140 kilometres east of Harare, said they were being haunted by prospects of displacement by Chinese investors searching for lithium in their ancestral…
Zacc yet to act on Gokwe corruption
Brenna Matendere
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has castigated the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) as well as the Local Government ministry for failing to act on a two-month probe which revealed growing…
LGBTIQ+ community still singing the blues
Pamenus Tuso
Bulawayo—Hopes of inclusion of the Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersexual and Queer Plus (LGBTIQ+) community in different aspects of life that include electoral processes and social services delivery are fading…
Harare city boss in nepotism storm
Tafadzwa Muranganwa
Harare—The City of Harare (CoH) acting human capital development director, Matthew Marara, a former senior soldier, is in the limelight for alleged nepotism in job appointments at Town House.
Five years ago,…
ZESA broke, set to increase tariffs as power cuts worsen: Watchdog
Brenna Matendere
Harare—The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) is battling obsolete equipment and acute financial problems, a situation that will worsen resurgent power cuts, the Harare Residents Trust (HRT)…
CCC disengages from parliament, councils
Brenna Matendere
Harare—Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party leader, Nelson Chamisa, on today (Wednesday) announced that his movement has resolved to disengage its legislators and councillors from parliament and local authorities.…
Sexual exploitation ruins lives of young girls from poor Chihota families
Mary Taruvinga
Chihota--At the age of 17, Chipo Moyo* is already a mother of two after enduring two failed marriages.
Chipo’s family lives in Mashonaland East’s Chihota area where deep levels of poverty have seen young girls being forced…