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Chitungwiza Municipality has outlined an ambitious plan to transform the town this year, mainly focusing on water and sanitation, procurement of refuse trucks, installation of four sets of traffic lights and construction of a new people’s market.

The Unified Councils Pensions Fund (UCPF) is suing the Chitungwiza Municipality at the High Court for $13,1 million in outstanding contributions.

Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council (UMSCC) is suing Harare City Council at the High Court for $615 187 in levy arrears.

Blessings Chidakwa Municipal Correspondent Harare City Council has clashed with Southerton residents over its decision to turn a once thriving recreational park into residential stands. The local authority has turned Gilwell Square, along Bexley Road, into at least 29 low- density stands which have since been pegged despite residents’ objections. A site visit by this […]

Natasha Kokai Herald Reporter A 13-year-old boy from Epworth is earning a living through controlling traffic on one of Harare’s busiest roads. Silence Furo who plies his trade at the intersection of Sam Nujoma Street and Lomagundi Road says he fends for his blind parents and sibling from his  earnings. He does not go to […]

Blessings Chidakwa Municipal Correspondent A diarrhoea outbreak has hit some Harare suburbs, with hundreds of residents being treated at various clinics after drinking contaminated borehole water, Harare City Council’s Health Services director Dr Prosper Chonzi said yesterday. Failure by the local authority to give residents clean water is a violation of section 77 of the […]

Blessings Chidakwa Municipal Correspondent THE construction of Kunzvi Dam, which is seen as a long-term solution to Harare’s water woes, is expected to start next year after Government committed to funding the project. A feasibility study for the much-awaited US$680 million project has already been completed. Government recently indicated it had secured funds to construct […]

Yeukai Karengezeka Municipal Correspondent Harare City Council’s partnership with a Chinese company, Consortio International Zimbabwe (CIZ), to build the Shawasha Business Complex in Mbare is reportedly hanging in the balance after the company negated the initial agreement of injecting US$10 million into the project. According to recent minutes of the business committee, Consortio International last […]

Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter Experts have hailed the appointment of five high-calibre judges to the High Court bench this week after gruelling public interviews that took place last month. Justices Evangelista Kabasa, Christopher Dube-Banda, Siyabona Musithu, Sunsley Zisengwe and Webster Chinamora took their oath of office before Chief Justice Luke Malaba, at a brief […]

Herald Reporter Harare City Council has suspended four officials over alleged corruption involving the illegal sale of stands, irregularities in approval of plans and producing fraudulent layout plans, among other charges. Corruption levels at the local authority have reached alarming levels as employees are in the habit of demanding kick-backs, depriving the city of sizeable […]

Blessing Chidakwa Municipal Correspondent Chitungwiza residents have raised the red flag over Mayor Lovemore Maiko’s “rushed and ill-informed” decision to appoint works director Engineer David Duma as acting town clerk as both are under police investigations. Eng Duma’s appointment raised eyebrows, especially after he was last week jointly arrested with Maiko and Ward 21 councillor […]

HARARE magistrate Mrs Learnmore Mapiye has announced that the trial for Harare businessman Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure, will kick off on September 18.

The Research Council of Zimbabwe (RCZ) is committed to coordinating, promoting and controlling research in all spheres of the economy to leapfrog development, industrialisation and modernisation in line with the President’s vision to attain upper-middle income status by 2030.

CHITUNGWIZA residents have raised concern over corruption allegations levelled against mayor, Lovemore Maiko, a councillor and senior manager, with calls growing louder for a forensic audit to be conducted.

A SUSPECTED armed robber who got drunk during a robbery was allegedly caught sleeping inside his victim’s car, a court heard yesterday.