ABOUT three companies have expressed interest in renting Gweru City Council’s mayoral mansion, which had become a white elephant, town clerk Ms Elizabeth Gwatipedza has said. In an interview yesterday, Ms Gwatipedza said the mansion was now being evaluated to ascertain its true value before the winner of the bid is announced in due course. […]

The first lady Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday officially opened the ChirumanzuZibagwe women’s shop in Mvuma. A total of thirty families are directly benefiting from the project. The women’s shop which was the first lady’s brain child when she was the national assembly member for ChirumanzuZibagwe before she left to concentrate on her new role as […]

THE High Court in Bulawayo has ordered the MP for Vungu in the Midlands Province, Omega Sibanda to pay back a personal loan of US$6 750 which he got from a local freelance photographer eight years ago. The former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) vice president and his wife, Emily were taken to court by Ms […]

The construction of a mausoleum for former President Robert Mugabe has started, with preparatory work at the site under way, while work on the design is still to be completed. The late icon who died several days ago in Singapore where he was being treated for five months was yesterday mourned at his rural home […]

First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa on Sunday visited the Mazvovere residence in Rutendo, Kwekwe, where she paid her condolences following the death of ZANU-PF Central Committee member Cde Caroline Mazvovere. Mazvovere, who was the party’s Deputy Secretary for Information Communication and Technology, died on Friday following a long illness. She succumbed to lung infection in South […]

THE Department of Irrigation Services in collaboration with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is carrying out feasibility studies on major dams in Midlands Province to determine their irrigation potential in a move that could see 10 800 hectares of irrigation land being opened. The dams include Mundi-Mataga (Mberengwa), Palawani (Zvishavane), Sebakwe (Kwekwe), Manyuchi (that […]

GWERU City Council will channel the $4 million it received from the Government under the devolution fund to repair street lights in the Central Business District and residential areas, the Mayor, Clr Josiah Makombe, has said. The Mayor commended the Government for releasing the funds which he said would go towards improving service delivery. “As […]

A fight has erupted over the replacement of Chief Chirumhanzu of the Midlands following the death of substantive chief Jerald Mudzengi in February. The succession battle has reached fever pitch with two warring factions taking their fight to the High Court in Masvingo. This comes after Chirumanzu provincial assembly representatives made spirited efforts to install […]

TWO suspected armed robbers raided a mine in Shurugwi belonging to a Chinese national and went away with 889 grammes of gold worth US$33 500, US$6 000 cash, eight cellphones and clothes at gunpoint. Robson Chatikobo (36) and Brezhnev Maposa (38) appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Franklin Mkhwananzi facing robbery charges yesterday. They were remanded in […]

Gweru city council has blamed its department of engineering services for a typhoid outbreak which left 8 residents dead and over 2000 requiring medical assistance last year. This was confirmed in an internal report which was released towards the end of July. The report stated that human error which resulted in the compromising of water […]