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Walter Nyamukondiwa Kariba Bureau A Kariba man who survived a crocodile attack early this year has been readmitted in hospital after a tooth was found lodged in his leg. Mr Alexander Chimedza went for a review in Zambia on March 17 and was immediately re-admitted after doctors discovered that his right leg was swelling and […]
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Crime Reporter One person died when a Nissan Atlas truck was swept off while crossing the flooded Nyaodza Bridge along the Gatche-Gatche – Kariba Road yesterday. The truck had one passenger on board who escaped through the passenger window to safety while the driver died. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi urged motorists to […]
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KARIBA municipality has temporarily closed Nyamhunga Clinic to facilitate fumigation after a member of the health staff tested Covid-19 positive.
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Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau— THE number of suspected cholera cases has risen to 22 in Chegutu forcing Government and its partners to move in to manage the outbreak by setting up a treatment camp in the town. Four people have so far died of cholera in Chegutu. At least nine people are currently admitted and in […]
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Lovemore Meya Herald Correspondent— AT least 954 900 people in the country’s 10 provinces had registered with the biometric voter registration system as of Sunday, with over 22 000 having been turned away for non-compliance, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said. ZEC public relations officer Mr Brian Tomo said potential voters were being turned away for […]
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Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter Commissioning of the first power generating unit under the $533 million Kariba South extension project, is expected in the second week of December, while the plant is scheduled to start feeding 150 megawatts into the national grid before year-end. Construction work on the whole project is 92 percent complete.
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From Walter Nyamukondiwa in KARIBA— There is rampant corruption in the public sector, especially in the tendering of national infrastructural projects, the Corruption Index report has revealed. The report followed studies in Zimbabwe and Zambia. It noted that the rot was to blame for poor workmanship and inflated costs in some projects. According to the report, the huge […]
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Felex Share Senior Reporter— Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday met civil servants’ unions and urged them to take up residential stands being developed by the Infrastructural Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ). He told the unions that Government workers willing to join the scheme would do so voluntarily. IDBZ is developing various
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Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story WHEN Cyclone Dineo rammed Masvingo earlier in the year, floods unleashed a glut of silt on Tokwe-Mukosi, the biggest in-land dam built in post-colonial Zimbabwe, rivalled only in size and capacity, and in everything else, by Kariba on the border with Zambia.
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Golden Sibanda in Kariba CONSTRUCTION work at the Zimbabwe Power Company’s Kariba South Power Station’s generation capacity extension is 50 percent complete with some key aspects of the project nearing completion. ZPC projects manager Endmond Mukahadira told journalists during a tour of the hydro power plant’s $533 million capacity extension that the project was on course […]