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MDC HARARE CITY COUNCIL operates without a budget and no water billing system,charge sub-economic tariffs for water, and this has seen only a few consumers paying bills even without being requested to do so, hence Morton Jaffray main water treatment plant closure on Tuesday,which left the capital city with no running water.- Acting Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Ziyambi Ziyambi .Paul Ngwenya WELCOME EVERYONE: 251,751 MEMBERS, 1000 new members a day….

A group of retired US diplomats and civil society leaders has penned a letter of protest to Harvard University, after Auxillia Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s first lady, picked up an award for contributions to healthcare in her country, where a huge doctors’ strike has brought medical services to a halt.The letter was addressed to the heads of Harvard University and Harvard Global Health Catalyst.“To be blunt, your well-intentioned work in these areas is tainted by the affiliation…

Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi said Malema was trying to attract Grace Mugabe who is now a rich widow.“Julius Malema was foul-mouthed when he visited Zimbabwe. It’s unfortunate he tried to impress the former First Lady Grace by denigrating President Mnangagwa. Grace still looks young and is filthy rich and Malema decided to take a dig on the government in order to impress her.”On Monday Malema said Grace was a strong widow who will not…

ZIM brace for shortages of ARVS because the National Aids Council (NAC) faces forex challenges to settle a US$6,9 million owed to suppliers.ZIMBABWE should brace for another extended round of shortages of ARVS for mostly second line treatment after the National Aids Council (NAC) said it was facing foreign currency challenges to settle a US$6,9 million owed to suppliers.Appearing before the HIV and Aids and Portfolio Committee to give oral evidence following a petition by…

BREAKING NEWS:Gogo Dambaza (90) whose son Bishop Berry Dambaza (59) died yesterday, had a major stroke and died today THE mother of a 59-year-old senior pastor with Upper Room Ministries, Bishop Berry Dambaza who committed suicide yesterday in the city has died.Dambaza died after apparently throwing himself from the third floor of Rezende Parkade in Harare. Details and circumstances of the incident were not immediately clear.The 90-year-old Gogo Monica Dambaza who recently suffered a “very…

FORMER Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarous Dokora’s ex-wife, Mercy Hanyani (31), has been issued with a warrant of arrest over malicious damage to property as their divorce case rages on.According to court papers, on August 5, Hanyani went to Dokora’s house in Harare, broke the door to the cottage, spilled some mealie-meal on the kitchen floor and vandalised some household goods.The State alleges that the incident occurred when Dokora had left for work at…

Last week, NUST students attempted to stage a protest but were blocked by the police from protesting against the ongoing industrial action by University lecturers for a wage increas.The students are especially worried because the lecturers have absented themselves for the past three weeks and basically students have not been learning since the beginning of the current semester.According to the Student Representative Council president Dennis Mwashita riot police charged the campus in the morning and…

ZIMBABWE HIGH COURT HAS ODERED the Zimbabwe Republic police (ZRP) to allow ZHDA leader Dr Peter Magombeyi to travel to South Africa for urgent specialist medical treatment after police had initially blocked him from leaving Zimbabwe on Monday and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) filed an urgent matter for determination which was granted on Tuesday. Paul Paul Ngwenya-Byo24.WELCOME EVERYONE: 251,127 MEMBERS, 1000 new members a day. A Qurter of a million members, thank…

PRESIDENT EMMERSON MNANGAGWA AND HIS ZANU PF WHO SEIZED POWER IN NOVEMBER 2017 are chancers who have desperately tried to emulate former President Robert Mugabe, South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said on Monday. Mnangagwa and his acolytes in the current Zanu-PF set-up that seized power in the November 2017 coup are chancers who have desperately tried to emulate former President Robert Mugabe, South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader…