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Salary Crisis Threatens Harare Services
Kudzayi Zvivanashe
Harare—Residents of Harare face a potential breakdown in essential services as a bitter standoff between the Harare City Council (HCC) and its employees escalates over unpaid salaries.
The Zimbabwe Municipalities…
Masvingo Zanu PF councillors block appointment of pro-Mnangagwa CEO
Godfrey Mtimba
Masvingo—Zanu PF councillors at the Bikita Rural District Council (RDC) have led the rejection of a chief executive officer linked to the campaign to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule beyond 2028.
The campaign,…
Another heartbreak for Walter Magaya
Brenna Matendere
Harare—Chitungwiza residents have emerged victorious in a legal battle against controversial church leader Walter Magaya, after the High Court on Tuesday granted an interdict to halt his unauthorised development projects…
Chitungwiza residents fume over threat to demolish durawalls
Marshall Bwanya
Chitungwiza—Residents of Chitungwiza are outraged by the municipality’s imposition of fines on unapproved perimeter walls and a ban on the use of containers and makeshift cabins by traders.
The Chitungwiza municipality…
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…
Trump upholds US sanctions on Mnangagwa and allies
Brenna Matendere
Harare—Sanctions imposed by the USA on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his wife Auxilia, nine members of his government as well as associates including controversial businessman Kuda Tagwirei and selected companies, will…
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…