An internal Bulawayo City Council audit has uncovered a number of irregularities in the local authority’s procurement and contracts management systems. According to a council confidential report, some of the loopholes include the failure by the local authority to maintain a suppliers list which creates the risk of the city …
Read More »Child Marriage Acts Require Stiffer Penalties: Rights Groups
Child and women’s rights groups have urged the Government to immediately reform the country’s laws to outlaw child marriages and introduce stiffer penalties for abusing the girl child. This follows the death of Anna Machaya (15) who died during child birth before being secretly buried at an apostolic sect church …
Read More »Police Act Amendment Will Weaken Organisation: Kazembe
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has expressed reservations about proposed amendments to the Police Act, arguing the police would be severely weakened if the Bill was passed into law in its current form. The Bill, which contains 20 clauses and fits into calls by human rights’ activists and the opposition …
Read More »Transparency Advocates Demand Covid-19 Vaccine Expenditure Breakdown
Government should ensure strict accountability in its use of Covid-19 vaccine funds as the public remains in the dark on the breakdown of the US$93.2 million spent in procuring the life-saving jabs, governance watchdogs say. In July, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube told the nation the government spent US$93.2 million out …
Read More »Mwonzora Bags $59M From Political Finance Quota
Opposition MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora continues to get preferential treatment from the ruling Zanu PF after his formation was awarded over $59 million through the political finance quota. In an Extraordinary Government Gazette published Friday, Mwonzora was given a golden handshake which will see the party’s bank account credited with $59 …
Read More »Govt Puts Measures To Accommodate The Physically Challenged In Schools
Government has taken advantage of the current level four lockdown to renovate schools across the country so that all physically challenged pupils will find life easier when learning commences, Nhau has learnt. Schools are opening on Monday for all examination classes while the rest of the classes are set to …
Read More »ED Chopper In Emergency Landing Scare
In a hair-raising incident which might leave heads rolling at the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ), President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidential helicopter was dramatically forced into an emergency landing over 60 kilometres south-west of Harare on Sunday afternoon due to a technical failure, The NewsHawks has established. Security sources said the crash landing …
Read More »CR7 Makes Sensational Return To Old Trafford
Cristiano Ronaldo has completed a sensational return to Manchester United after walking out on Juventus. Premier League champions Manchester City pulled out of the running on Friday despite being tipped to sign the wantaway striker. United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer then left the door open to a shock transfer when discussing the former …
Read More »Iraqis Who Worked With US Fear For The Future Amid Afghan Chaos
For Aymen, a former translator for the United States military in Iraq, seeing American allies in Afghanistan get left behind to face the Taliban following the American withdrawal felt personal. “They abandoned them – they’re not keeping their promise,” said Aymen, who asked that only his first name be used …
Read More »Chinese Company Wants Murehwa Villagers Evicted In Black Granite Looting Spree
A Chinese mining company, Heijin, is pushing to evict hundreds of villagers in Murehwa, Mashonaland East province, after it was given a special mining grant to extract black granite on densely populated land covering 300 hectares, the Zimbabwe Independent can exclusively reveal. This comes at a time Chinese companies are frenziedly descending …
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