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Sharon Munjenjema Zimbabwe’s Environmental Management Agency (Ema) and Harare City Council are heading for a clash with environmentalists after approving construction of a mosque on wetlands. The mosque, now at roof level, is opposite Long Cheng Plaza mall whose construction on the same wetland belt sparked protests by environmentalists a few years ago. At the […]

ZTN Correspondent Hundreds of residents in Harare’s Mbare suburb have been plunged into darkness after the country’s power utility Zesa switched them for non-payment of bills. 58 hostels in the suburb were switched off over a debt whose amount could not be immediately established. In a statement on Tuesday, Harare City Council said, “Council is […]

Patience Nhamburo A 27-year-old man from Harare’s Glen Lorne suburb allegedly employed 300 ghost workers and prejudiced his employer of about 25 thousand United States dollars. Blessing Hove who was employed by Goal Zimbabwe as a Human Resources and Administration Clerk appeared in court on Tuesday facing fraud charges.  It is alleged that from October […]

Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau Journalists have been urged to play a leading role in shaping public opinion and perception when reporting issues relating to migration to avoid fueling discrimination for the migrants. Speaking during a virtual training for journalists and media practitioners being coordinated by the International Labour Organisation, South Africa based independent migration consultant, […]

Munashe Mukahlera A low-income earning urban family of six in Zimbabwe now needs about ZWL$48 000 to sustain their basic needs per month.  According to the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe the country’s cost of living for the month of August went up by 16.7 percent from ZWL$41 406 in July.   Meanwhile, the food basket increased […]

Patience Nhamburo Campion Marowa the man alleged to have shot and killed Joyce Kuzhumbwa appeared in court today facing charges of murder, theft and unlawful discharge of a firearm. The court heard that on Monday 13 September Marowa boarded a Zupco bus armed with a revolver. When the bus reached Dzvarasekwa 4 and as the […]

Lloyd Ndemo A female bus conductor with Zimbabwe’s public transport utility Zupco was shot dead on Monday night by an unknown assailant in Harare’s Dzivarasekwa suburb. The now deceased has been identified as Joyce Kuzhumba. Police say they are yet to establish the motive behind the shooting as nothing was taken from the deceased. “I […]

Munashe Mukahlera A 31-year-old woman from Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province was arrested at the weekend for allegedly selling a highly potent illicit brew known as ‘tumbwa’. Police recovered 378 units of the illicit brew valued at around 70 000 Zimbabwe dollars. The woman, Judith Sora was arrested on Saturday at Madziwa Shopping Centre following a […]

Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau A 17-year-old boy from Makakavhule area, under Chief Tshitaudze in Beitbridge has been arrested for fatally stabbing a fellow villager aged 23 years, whom he accused of spilling his beer during a birthday party early on Sunday morning. The teenager who cannot be named for professional reasons, is also accused of […]