LOCAL NEWS

Political Reporter

ZANU PF by-election candidate for Harare East constituency, Cde Mavis Gumbo, said she was confident and was expecting a landslide victory.

 Nontando Magagula

CCC secretary general and Kuwadzana candidate for the 26 March by-election has exposed the hypocrisy of his party’s councillors in Harare City Council over the poor service delivery

Charles Motsi

Avuxeni fm has become the country's first licensed community radio station to be launched and operate in Chiredzi and is expected to become the voice of the local Shangani community.

Political Reporter

President and ZANU  First Secretary, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa has told Zimbabweans that they have a chance to help in transforming the country by overwhelmingly voting for the ruling Party in the by elections slated for 26 March this year.

Staff Reporter

The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) is currently holding stakeholders meetings to increase tariffs by 102 percent with a view to improve electricity supply and distribution in the country.

Staff Reporter

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned 115 Zupco buses as the Second Republic continues with efforts to provide safe, reliable and affordable transport in both rural and urban areas.

Political Reporter

The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members in Masvingo Province  are planning to plunge that province into chaos as they want to revenge for the alleged murder of that party’s activist, Nyasha Zhambe Mawere, who died on 26 November last year.

A source within CCC told this publication that CCC Masvingo Youth Assembly chairperson Bernard Chimurago, National Executive Council (NEC) member Moses Mavhure and Gutu ward 34 councillor Wilcliff Matindike were plotting to carry out acts of violence against ZANU PF members in that province whom they are accusing of murdering Zhambe.

However, the source revealed that it is known that Zhambe succumbed to injuries he sustained after a brawl at a bottle store.

According to the source, the trio held a caucus meeting at Mupandawana Growth Point on 7 February this year and they resolved to jot down names of people whom they want to attack first.

“They held a meeting at Mupandawana Growth Point where they resolved to avenge for the alleged murdering of Zhambe. They agreed that they should unleash violence against ZANU PF members in that area as well as members from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) who operates in that area. On their list of targets, they wrote the name of one Joseph Mudziwa Pasi on top,” said the source.

The source added that the trio further resolved that they will recruit some radical CCC youths who will be given some stipends to motivate them to execute the acts of violence.

The same source said the impending acts of violence has the blessing of CCC vice chairperson Job Sikhala who urged the youths not to  fold their hands, but be radical in order  to send a signal to ZANU PF that the ‘status quo was no longer the same’.

According to the source, the acts of violence will be carried during the cover of darkness. The modus operandi will include maiming and killing known CIO officers and ZANU PF members as well as torching their houses.

Efforts to get a comment from CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere were futile as her mobile phones were not reachable.

Staff Reporter

Government’s vision for a US$12 billion mining sector economy by 2023 is fast becoming a reality, as the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) surpasses its diamond production target by a whopping 75% despite COVID-19 challenges in the year ending December 2021.

As at 31 December, ZCDC recorded 4 013 219.90 carats against its projected target of 2 300 00.00 which translates to a 75% increase.  The total diamond stock as at 31 December 2021 stood at 3 372 660.25 after 105 000 carats were sold and ZCDC conducted an international diamond tender and realised US$7.5 million.

This publication managed to speak to a contact within the ZCDC who attributed the success to uninterrupted supply of electricity and fuel as well as the new machinery that was imported from Germany in the first quarter of 2021.

“Government efforts of ensuring uninterrupted supply of fuel and electricity to the mining sector have contributed significantly to the efficient production of diamond hence, the results. 

“Again, the increased operational efficiency can be attributed to equipment that was imported from Germany in
March 2021.  The equipment comprises of 2 excavators and some service kits,” said the contact that preferred anonymity.

Staff Reporter

President Mnangagwa has said that the era of mediocre performances by senior Government officials that used to curtail Government’s success is over as senior officials would be held accountable for their actions.

Staff Reporter

Phase 2 of the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2) is set to begin in earnest, as Government, through the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED), unveiled a ZW$50.7 billion budget toward the project.