LOCAL NEWS

by Grace Chekai    

The mayor of the City of Harare, Councillor Herbert Gomba has been picked up by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) from his home in Glen Norah, today in connection with murky land deals and abuse of office.

by Rungano Dzikira

ZANU PF party has clarified Government’s Farm Mechanisation Programme undertaken between 2007 and 2008 saying that it was a necessary and powerful empowerment tool for farmers, and was never a loan scheme as alluded by detractors.

by Derick Tsimba 

Farmers will soon start to access the John Deere Mechanisation Facility through selected local banks, the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement has said.

by Harare Post Reporter

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday imposed a dawn to dusk curfew amid a myriad of other measures, to try and curb the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease, which has since affected 1 820 people and claimed 26 lives in the country.

by Christopher Makaza

The governance structures proposed by the Devolution and Decentralization policy will go a long way in enhancing local governance, decision making and promote the rapid development of local economies through leveraging of local resources to fund specific development programmes and priorities, a senior Government official said.

by Innocent Mujeri

As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the country, Government has seen it prudent to suspend face to face lectures on campus to avoid exposing students to the deadly disease.

by Christopher_Makaza_

The successful amendment of the Copper Control Act will see a mandatory jail sentence of 30 years for those caught in illicit copper trading.

by Innocent Mujeri

Analysts have described the deactivation of Hopewell Chin’ono’s social media sites as a way of deleting all evidence that he knows could incriminate him on incitement charges he is facing.

 by Rungano Dzikira

Disguised under the human rights drive, the US is up in arms against the Zimbabwean Government calling for the release of political activists Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume who have been apprehended by the police for instigating violence.

by Derick Tsimba

Today, the First Lady of Zimbabwe and Vice President of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD), Auxillia Mnangagwa, will be chairing, the High Level Webinar Series #1 in Harare, which seeks to address health impacts of COVID-19, the Harare Post can report.