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Zimbabwean municipalities (cities, towns and villages of Zimbabwe)
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News24
April 21, 2018
Scores of Zimbabwe nurses on Friday protested in Harare's central city park after the government dismissed them for striking over low salaries and poor working conditions. The nurses, who wore their white uniforms, demanded the government reverse its decision to fire the majority of the 15 000 nursesÃâà...
Herald Palladium
April 21, 2018
STEVENSVILLE — The nonprofit Living Beyond Hope will host a dinner and silent auction from 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 27 at Stevensville United Methodist Church, 5506 Ridge Road, to benefit children of the Arnoldine mission church in Zimbabwe, Africa. All proceeds will go toward buying textbooks andÃâà...
Salisbury Post
April 21, 2018
Matangira was born in a small, poor village in rural Zimbabwe, but he said his story started long before then — with a prayer and a donation from North Hills. Someone at the school, he said, chose to support a young missionary couple from Advance. That couple ended up settling just down the road fromÃâà...
NewsDay
April 20, 2018
Harare City Council has engaged lawyers to challenge the Local Government Board's order compelling the municipality to re-advertise the town clerk's post. BY XOLISANI ... “Devolution, though amplified in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, continues to be an alien to the Local Government Board.” Council hasÃâà...
Tri-City Herald
April 20, 2018
Scores of nurses demonstrated in Zimbabwe's capital on Friday after the government fired 16,000 of them from public hospitals for demanding better working conditions and higher pay. The protest, during which the nurses offered a free clinic to passers-by, was a test of the new government's attitude towardÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 20, 2018
"The tourism city to be developed will require an investment of about $7 billion and the city will be bigger than the Harare CBD (Central Business District). ... Dr Kaseke added that ZTA managed to secure agreements with some major Chinese tour operators to market the Zimbabwean tourism destination.
eNCA
April 19, 2018
HARARE – Zimbabwe warned Thursday that a string of strikes threatened efforts to revive the economy after the ousting of Robert Mugabe, as a stand-off with striking nurses deepened. The government on Tuesday sacked the majority of 15,000 nurses who started industrial action this week shortly afterÃâà...
KUTV 2News
April 19, 2018
(KUTV) — More than 4,000 people gathered to hear LDS Church President Russell Nelson speak in Harare, Zimbabwe on Tuesday. The event ... The leaders will travel to eight cities on three continents in 11 days. The tour ... The Church, headquartered in Salt Lake City, has more than 16 million members around the world.
AllAfrica.com
April 18, 2018
Some Harare City Council workers are reportedly sabotaging the city's road rehabilitation programme by demanding kickbacks from contractors to facilitate ... On foreign currency, acting town clerk Engineer Hosiah Chisango was requested to approach the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to assist to enable theÃâà...
HuffPost South Africa
April 1, 2018
Those missions assess the preparedness of the country, and that was done in the DRC and also in Zimbabwe," said Tax. "The next ... Robert Carrubba / Reuters An electronic voting machine inside the DRC's electoral commission (CENI) head offices at the Gombe Municipality in Kinshasa, DRC. March 1Ãâà...
DailyNews
April 1, 2018
HARARE - Harare City Council (HCC) plans to install 50 000 prepaid water meters in areas that receive uninterrupted water supply. ... a report in 2015 titled “Assessment and Opportunities of Prepaid Metering Systems in Zimbabwean Municipalities” which showed that Zimbabwe's local authorities were notÃâà...
News24
March 31, 2018
How do you get potholes to be fixed in your country? In the town of Kadoma, in Zimbabwe residents protested by planting banana trees in the potholes and the protest bore fruits. Kadoma Municipality is now rehabilitating most of its roads after the protesthttps://t.co/fk4MFo3zto pic.twitter.com/sQx4cIm8x0.
AllAfrica.com
March 31, 2018
Spokesperson for POVO, Mawarire, told a sizeable gathering at the lush green Harare Gardens that the coalition aims to bring in new ideas on how to run the Harare municipality. "POVO is a new idea for the citizens of Harare whose idea is to bring back Harare to being the sunshine city again," vowedÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 31, 2018
Zimbabwean activist and cleric Evan Mawarire has announced plans to run for a seat on the Harare City Council in the upcoming elections. Mawarire made headlines in 2016 when he was arrested after being identified as the leader of the #ThisFlag movement against then-President Robert Mugabe andÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 31, 2018
Harare City Council has resolved to challenge the Local Government Board at the Constitutional Court for rejecting all three candidates it submitted for the coveted position of town clerk. The council argues that it does not have to submit names to the Local Government Board, saying the requirement isÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 30, 2018
Activist cleric Evan Mawarire has announced he will be running for a seat on Harare City Council in the upcoming elections. Pastor Mawarire became the face of the 2016 protests against then president Robert Mugabe in a campaign that resulted in the cleric being arrested and forced into exile. The leaderÃâà...
VOA Zimbabwe
March 30, 2018
Twelve magistrates are expected to be preside over cases of corruption in the five anti-corruption courts officially launched Thursday by Chief Justice Luke Malaba in Harare and Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo. Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says this is part of his 100-day Rapid ResultsÃâà...
NewsDay
March 22, 2018
“The city's residents body, Masvingo United Residents and Rate Payers Alliance condemns in the strongest of terms the re-introduction and ... Fidze said though the Zimbabwe National Road Administration has not yet disbursed road rehabilitation funds, they bought some equipment and repaired someÃâà...
NewsDay
March 22, 2018
“The city's residents body, Masvingo United Residents and Rate Payers Alliance condemns in the strongest of terms the re-introduction and ... Fidze said though the Zimbabwe National Road Administration has not yet disbursed road rehabilitation funds, they bought some equipment and repaired someÃâà...
NewsDay
March 22, 2018
“Bulawayo City got a great result last week, so they will be buzzing, will come full of confidence so I envisage a tough game. It's two cities playing against each other, so there is always something on it,” Harrison said. Harrison did attempt to play down the pressure facing his team after what happened lastÃâà...
NewsDay
March 22, 2018
“Bulawayo City got a great result last week, so they will be buzzing, will come full of confidence so I envisage a tough game. It's two cities playing against each other, so there is always something on it,” Harrison said. Harrison did attempt to play down the pressure facing his team after what happened lastÃâà...
News24
March 22, 2018
Hwange - A crocodile blocked the entrance to a hospital in the middle of Zimbabwe's coal-mining town of Hwange, sparking panic – and some very bizarre stories, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The crocodile was first spotted by taxi drivers on Tuesday evening, said the state-controlled Chronicle.
News24
March 22, 2018
Hwange - A crocodile blocked the entrance to a hospital in the middle of Zimbabwe's coal-mining town of Hwange, sparking panic – and some very bizarre stories, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The crocodile was first spotted by taxi drivers on Tuesday evening, said the state-controlled Chronicle.
DailyNews
March 22, 2018
HARARE - Zimbabwe's own bar village concept is beginning to take shape in downtown Harare where Red Cafe is set to open its doors to the public this ... Just like Cape Town's Long Street or Bourbon Street in New Orleans, US where particular streets are known to only house bars, restaurants and nightÃâà...
DailyNews
March 22, 2018
HARARE - Zimbabwe's own bar village concept is beginning to take shape in downtown Harare where Red Cafe is set to open its doors to the public this ... Just like Cape Town's Long Street or Bourbon Street in New Orleans, US where particular streets are known to only house bars, restaurants and nightÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 21, 2018
The Mighty Warriors got their preparations for the Africa Women Cup of Nations qualifiers underway at ZIFA Village yesterday with most of the called-up players reporting for camp. The bulk of the players trooped into camp on Monday with Faith Drive Queens striker Maud Mafuruse joining the squadÃâà...
The Zimbabwe Mail
March 21, 2018
Exiled former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo says the number of soldiers embedded “in every street and village in Zimbabwe” now stands at 5 000 and had asked people to worry more about this than the trip of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special advisor Chris Mutsvangwa andÃâà...
News24
March 21, 2018
Harare – A former army brigadier, who quit Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF ruling party early this month to protest the removal of former leader Robert Mugabe, has ... Zimbabwe cannot hold free, fair and credible election with over 5 000 army officers embedded in every village and street communities across theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 21, 2018
The Premier Soccer League have scheduled a double header at the National Sports Stadium this Saturday, with Mutare City travelling to Harare for their home game against Chapungu in a lunch time kick-off. Mutare City will warm the stage against Chapungu at 1pm before Black Rhinos and ZPC KaribaÃâà...
Quartz
March 21, 2018
Zimbabwe, long starved of venture funding given its struggling economy, had 13 hubs as of March, while Uganda added three more tech incubators to ... and financial institutions like Barclays have also helped establish innovation incubations in Abidjan (Y'ello Startup) and Cape Town (Rise) respectively.
Tri-City Herald
March 21, 2018
Zimbabwe's new president is commuting death sentences for some prisoners and releasing thousands of people from prison, including most women and everyone under age 18. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's announcement Wednesday is an effort to ease overcrowded prisons. He has said he isÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 19, 2018
Ahead of Zimbabwe's crucial elections this year, the biggest opposition party has selected a charismatic lawyer and pastor to challenge the military-backed president in the first vote without former leader Robert Mugabe in decades. It will be a hard road for 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, who became head ofÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 19, 2018
CAPS United coach Lloyd Chitembwe believes anxiety got the better of his players as the former Castle Lager Premiership soccer champions fired blanks in the drawn opening match of the season against Harare City at the National Sports Stadium yesterday. The Harare giants enjoyed the lion's share ofÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 18, 2018
A sense of despair has pervaded Zimbabwe's major hospitals as the standoff between the government and health workers has left critically ill patients stranded. Doctors ... A Harare Central City Council ambulance was parked by the entrance at the OPD and a patient was lying on the stretcher bed. His twoÃâà...
Technology Zimbabwe
March 18, 2018
I was obviously taken aback because Whatsapp is so cheap and usually the whole point of having smartphones for people outside of the major cities is for them to be able to communicate with their relatives and friends in these cities. In Jerera, the uncertainty around the availability of electricity has createdÃâà...
VOA Zimbabwe
March 17, 2018
LONDON (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has attracted around $300 million in its coal industry that will quadruple production next year versus 2017, its mining minister told an investment conference in London on ... In Cape Town in February, he had said battery mineral lithium was among the most popular deposits.
AllAfrica.com
March 15, 2018
Harare City Council (HCC) is set to repossess residential stands issued to cooperatives and housing assistance pay schemes, which are failing to pay for the allocated land. The stands were allocated to individuals between 2005 and 2017. According to recent minutes of the council's housing andÃâà...
NewsDay
March 13, 2018
COMPLETE Arts Projects Trust Zimbabwe has partnered with Bayimba Foundation of Uganda for an inaugural Walter Mparutsa Theatre Festival set for April 10 to 19 in ... We then take in various other towns and cities, including Masvingo, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls and Gweru, which is our festival town.
NewsDay
March 13, 2018
This comes as the debt collection firm — Wellcash Debt Collectors — recently had its contract terminated by Harare City Council following similar ... “The Chitungwiza municipality once hired Mangwana and Partners Debt Collectors and terminated their contract after objections from residents andÃâà...
NewsDay
March 13, 2018
Part of the petition, which was also copied to town clerk Josiah Musuwo, read: “On Friday, March 2, 2018 most residents received letters of demand from the Municipality of Marondera. We were shocked with this council attitude of demanding money from us over half-backed services. It must not beÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
The City of Harare needs at least $300 million to fully fix its water and sewer reticulation infrastructure to meet the ever increasing demands of its growing ... The fund is providing support for restoration and stabilisation of water supply, sanitation services and wastewater treatment in eight towns at a total costÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
Councillors in Chivi Rural District Council have pooled resources together to campaign for President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF in their wards to ensure an overwhelming victory in the forthcoming harmonised elections. The campaign, being led by Ward 30 Councillor Cde Killer Zivhu, ensures that theÃâà...
The Zimbabwe Mail
March 12, 2018
UNITED Kingdom: A 19-year-old student from Bath faces deportation to Zimbabwe despite living in the city for the past seven years. by Bath Chronicle. Mudiwa Madzima has set up a fundraising campaign to cover her legal costs so she can fight the decision – saying she has no family in Zimbabwe andÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 11, 2018
With China's rubber-stamp parliament voting to allow President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely, recent history offers sobering lessons to the country's ruling Communist Party. For millennia, one-man rule for life was standard under kings and emperors. But from Zimbabwe to Iraq to North Korea,Ãâà...
Bath Chronicle
March 10, 2018
A 19-year-old student from Bath faces deportation to Zimbabwe despite living in the city for the past seven years. Mudiwa Madzima has set up a fundraising campaign to cover her legal costs so she can fight the decision - saying she only has distant relatives in Zimbabwe and would fear for her safety there.
taosnews
March 10, 2018
Cities like Boulder, Telluride and Santa Fe are, and we usually get what's left over." Henderson said ... There are political changes in Zimbabwe; I'm interested to hear the musician's perspective." ... He said he learned the basics of music theory at Mosi-Oa-Tunya High in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. This highÃâà...
BBC News
March 10, 2018
David Whitehead Textiles used to supply most of the country's fabric, before it was forced to close in 2016. But after receiving a bailout from Zimbabwe's central bank it has resumed some of its operations. The BBC's Taurai Maduna travelled to Chegutu, a town 100km west of the capital Harare, to find outÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 10, 2018
The tribunal tasked to investigate the alleged defiance by Harare City Council executives to cut salaries as per Government directive demanded to be paid $30 000 each, after taking five months to ... The probe was prompted by a Government audit which unearthed financial irregularities at Town House.
VOA Zimbabwe
March 10, 2018
The state-controlled Herald newspaper reports that a Zimbabwean magistrate has issued a warrant giving the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZAC) ... According to the newspaper, the warrant which was issued by magistrate Elisha Singango in Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare, empowers ZACC “toÃâà...
NewsDay
March 9, 2018
But thanks to a village savings scheme, the 78-year-old from Nachibanga village in Pemba district is now part of this growing financial inclusion crusade, bringing some fresh air to the functionality of the village economy. “How I wish I was introduced to this concept earlier,” Sibukale said. “This is a fantasticÃâà...
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