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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:43
HARARE - A councillor who was sacked after blowing the whistle on $1,6 million corruption in the Umguza rural district in Matabeleland North has dragged Local Government, Rural and Urban Development minister Ignatius Chombo to court for unlawful termination. Councillor Mxolisi...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:37
MASVINGO - About 43 vehicles belonging to the beleaguered Masvingo City Council will go under the hammer next Wednesday, the local deputy sheriff has said. The first batch of cars was attached last year while more were attached last week after...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 11:59
HARARE - Harare City Council yesterday received borehole water purification gadgets valued at $150 000 from mining giant Mbada Diamonds. The donation of 235 inline chlorinators follows council’s appeal for corporates to assist in purifying polluted boreholes scattered around Harare’s suburbs....Read More
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Wednesday, 09 January 2013 09:58
HARARE - Illegal activities will continue to be rife in the city council until police take action, Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda has said. Masunda expressed disappointment at the behaviour of police personnel whom he alleged are breaking city by-laws in full...Read More
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Tuesday, 08 January 2013 10:46
MUTARE - Service delivery has all but collapsed in Masvingo where council workers owed money continue attaching property. The messenger of court, acting for the workers, has attached more vehicles and other movable property over the $3,5 million salary row. This...Read More
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Friday, 21 December 2012 10:20
HARARE - Harare councillors have demanded an immediate recall of the director of Waste Management and Amenities, Dombo Chibanda, from “annual leave” to deal with piling garbage ahead of Christmas. With the city again falling prey to typhoid and diarrhoea, councillors...Read More
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012 13:29
HARARE - The Harare City Council (HCC) is in the eye of a $5,4 million “roads and garbage truck” tender storm, as one of its lead suppliers has been struggling to meet its end of the bargain, and fulfil the key...Read More
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Monday, 17 December 2012 12:35
HARARE - At least $5 million paid by home seekers to service residential stands at Nyatsime has mysteriously vanished from Chitungwiza City Council coffers, leaving the 1 500 victims fuming. Acting Harare Metropolitan governor Alfred Tome told angry members of Nyatsime...Read More
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Saturday, 08 December 2012 13:39
HARARE - Harare City Council had enlisted the services of Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to investigate allegations of corruption levelled against officials from the city’s valuation and estate management division. Twenty-seven council workers have since been suspended following a crackdown on...Read More
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Thursday, 06 December 2012 10:07
MASVINGO - The deputy sheriff has attached the Masvingo mayor’s Mercedes Benz vehicle and other property over $3,5 million owed to workers in a salary dispute dating back to 2008. The luxury car and eight other vehicles as well as movable...Read More
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Wednesday, 05 December 2012 15:06
HARARE - The move by Finance minister Tendai Biti to strip councils of procurement powers will result in disease outbreaks, Harare councillors have warned. Biti last month issued a directive to all local authorities instructing them to stop procuring goods without...Read More
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Monday, 03 December 2012 13:35
HARARE - Local government minister Ignatius Chombo has instructed Harare City Council to fork out $100 000 as payment for two probe teams he set up in a space of four months. Harare, already battling to contend a typhoid outbreak in...Read More
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Friday, 30 November 2012 10:48
HARARE - Bottlenecks disrupting HIV treatment and other support systems may trigger another crisis at a time when Zimbabwe is basking in the glory of declining prevalence rates, a report has revealed. The document, titled Opportunistic Infections (OI) and Art (Anti-retroviral...Read More
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:06
HARARE - Zimbabwe has missed the 2012 HIV testing and counselling target by 13 percent, the National Aids Council (Nac) has said. Statistics released by the coordinating and facilitating body of the national multi-sectoral response to HIV and Aids, show that...Read More
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Monday, 26 November 2012 10:11
HARARE - Harare businessman Alex Mashamhanda is claiming financial damages from the city council for loss of profit. A $1,2 million service station and food court that Mashamhanda was building in Mbare was stopped by Harare town clerk Tendai Mahachi in...Read More
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