Chiefs in Bulilima District are set to start summoning defaulting ratepayers to their courts as part of efforts by the local authority to boost revenue collection.Bulilima Rural District Council chairperson Morgen Ndebele said the local authority had decided to bring on board traditional leaders to ensure that people pay for services rendered.He said a meeting that was held recently between counci
A Harare magistrate yesterday told a maintenance claimant that it is illegal for school teachers to conduct extra lessons.Harare Civil Court magistrate Ms Yeukai Dzuda said this yesterday while presiding over a maintenance case between Christina Mutowino and her ex-lover, Alexio Matare.Responding to Mutowino’s demands for maintenance money for extra lessons for her three minor children, Ms Dzuda
A Shurugwi woman who could not stomach being jilted by her husband for another woman allegedly forced her three children to drink poison before committing suicide, police have confirmed.Acting Midlands police spokesperson Sergeant Xolani Dube confirmed the incident which occurred on Saturday evening when Cencia Ncube of Railway Block in Shurugwi forced her three children Pamela (14), Lionel (11) a
Zesa Holdings chief executive Josh Chifamba, has with immediate effect, directed the power utility’s subsidiaries to stop any further payments for public relations consultancy to Fruitful Communications, a company owned by Highfield West legislator Psychology Maziwisa.This comes amid reports that more $32,000 of public funds from the Zimbabwe Power Company was on its way to the private firm
MEMBERS of Parliament have recommended the closure of some embassies due to the cash crisis that has seen some diplomats and embassy staff failing to get their salaries.Presenting a report in the National Assembly, Zanu-PF MP, Kindness Paradza, who was part of a delegation to Kuwait that was led by the Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda, said the Government should conside
The High Court has barred Government from cancelling CIMAS Medical Aid Society’s operating licence pending finalisation of its dispute with Corporate 24 Group of Hospitals.Justice November Mtshiya set aside the decision by Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Aldrin Musiiwa to cancel CIMAS’ licence.The threat of CIMAS, one of the largest medical aid societies in the country, losing its
The killing of Cecil, the lion in Hwange mid last year generated millions of money for researchers while the community in which the lion lived did not get a fraction of the proceeds, Parliamentarians heard yesterday.Campfire Association director Mr Charles Jonga said it was important for wildlife communities where there were hunting activities to benefit from any activity that brings money instead
Chirundu Local Board has started demolishing makeshift structures where more than 2 000 people are living in squalid conditions amid an outcry that alternative accommodation has not been provided.The phased demolition is targeting the holding area commonly known as Baghdad, where thousands of people live without proper sanitary amenities like toilets and clean drinking water.Residents in the area
THE Civil Service Commission (CSC) has with effect from this month slashed all diplomats’ allowances due to the prevailing economic challenges.Presenting a report on the visit to Kuwait last month by a delegation of local legislators that was led by the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, Zanu-PF Makonde lawmaker, Kindness Paradza told the House that diplomats’ allowances had been
President Robert Mugabe has taken a jibe at opposition parties, particulary the MDC-T and Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF), saying they were wasting their time plotting to unseat him in the 2018 elections.Addressing thousands of Zanu PF supporters bussed in for a campaign rally at Chamisa Primary School in Gutu on Friday, Mugabe described his foes as ideologically bankrupt and with no capacity to def
Zanu-PF infighting has stretched to its grass roots, with a member of the ruling party's youth wing attacked for chanting a First Lady, Grace Mugabe slogan.Zanu PF Provincial youth secretary for legal affairs Henry Chinovava was allegedly assaulted by Ward 7 chairperson Paul Zimharo for chanting a slogan in support of supposedly the G40 faction. The incident happened at around 1PM at Nemamwa
Workers unions have vehemently rejected the proposal by government in the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Bill which has seen the government back tracking on its indigenization policy to exempt businesses operating in the zones from the application of the Labour Act. SEZs are geographical areas administered by one oversight management body offering special trade incentives to firms that establi
A MAN from New Lobengula suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly stealing property worth about R16,000 at a house in Lobengula West. Polite Ncube, 19, allegedly broke into Bright Phiri’s house on Wednesday last week. Ncube was hurled before the courts facing charges of unlawful entry and theft.He pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody to today for sentence. On May 11 at
THE Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) is building two schools in Bulawayo, one high school and the other one a primary school. Ezekiel Guti Primary School is located in Cowdray Park suburb and the high school, which is named after the church founder’s wife, Eunor Guti Academy, is located in Kingsdale suburb.The church yesterday celebrated its 56th anniversary at Queens Sports Ground
A WOMAN from Kwekwe has been told she faces jail following her conviction for burning her six-year-old stepdaughter with a red-hot metal cup for allegedly wetting her blankets. Appearing before Kwekwe resident magistrate Taurai Manwere facing one count of domestic violence over the weekend, was Lydia Mapokotera, 26, of house number 38C/7 Mbizo, Kwekwe. She was convicted on her own plea o
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