Water crisis: Residents bear brunt of inept council
As the country is in the throes of the worst drought in the past four decades, provision of potable water for human beings and livestock in both rural and urban areas, particularly urban settlements, has become desperately urgent.
The crisis is being keenly felt in the capital, Harare, where the Harare City Council (HCC) has since scaled back supplies ostensibly because of “failure by users (ratepayers) of municipal services to meet their end of the bargain.”
‘Prove abduction or go to jail’
HOME Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Ambassador Cain Mathema, has said Government will not hesitate to introduce new laws to regulate social media and warned individuals making false abduction claims to prove the allegations or face jail.
Chitungwiza budgets $1,5 million for boreholes
Chitungwiza Municipality, buoyed by a $1,5 million allocation from Treasury, has already activated plans to drill at least 35 boreholes and rehabilitate existing ones to make the resource available to increasingly desperate ratepayers.
Former First Lady seeks Govt help
FORMER first lady, Mrs Grace Mugabe is receiving Government assistance to protect part of her business empire — Gushungo Farm and Diary — she founded with former President Cde Robert Mugabe, which in recent months has been invaded by marauding illegal gold panners.
‘We had become radicals’
Cde Parker Chipoyera continues his war Chronicles. This week, the liberation fighter narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati, his first arrest and eventual plan to skip the country and join the armed struggle.
Could Ngezi be suffering from crisis of expectations?
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, then how incapable must man be of learning from experience.”
At least that is according to Karl Marx, but it is the current predicament that Mhondoro-based side Ngezi Platinum find themselves in.
Selmor takes over dad’s role
SELMOR Mtukudzi’s appointment as Impala Car Rental brand ambassador is not a cap and t-shirt affair.
The deal, which will be renewed annually, involves a brand new PA system, a truck to ferry the sound system to and from gigs, funding for the singer’s upcoming album and a “five-star” album launch for the new release.
Mugabe family solely in charge of funeral
The family of founding leader and national hero, Cde Robert Mugabe, is now solely in charge of his interment, including the construction of a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre, where the remains will be buried.
CBZ commits to fund Command Agriculture
One of the country’s leading financial institutions, CBZ Holdings, has agreed in principle to fund Command Agriculture as Government intensifies preparations for the 2019/20 summer cropping season, a Government official has said.
‘lmmortalise Mugabe’s heritage’
INTERNATIONAL buyers and journalists that graced the just ended Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo confirmed beyond doubt, the tourism potential in former president Robert Mugabe’s brand.
The founding father of Zimbabwe passed on September 6, 2019 at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore, where he was receiving treatment.











