The government has given Geo Pomona Waste Management a sweet deal to pick up trash in the capital. This contract will cost the broke Harare City Council a whopping US$9 million annually!
Harare City Council has long struggled to collect garbage in the city center and residential areas. Things got so bad that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had to step in and declare it a national disaster. Because of all the uncollected waste, people were getting sick with nasty diseases like cholera and typhoid.
Dilesh Nguwaya, the big boss at Geo Pomona, said earlier this year that his company would be scooping up 650 tonnes of garbage daily for US$40 per tonne. They will use all that waste to make electricity for the country. Nguwaya claims that the...
The big sugar companies in Zimbabwe just lost a big court case. Hippo Valley Estates and Triangle Limited tried to sue the government. They were mad because the government told them they had to give more money to the sugarcane farmers.
The government said the sugar companies have to give 80.5% of the money to the farmers now. And the sugar companies only get to keep 19.5%. The sugar companies said this wasn't fair. They think the government doesn't have the power to do this.
The sugar companies said they need more money to run their business. They have to pay for things like machines, fuel, and workers. They think giving so much to the farmers will make it hard for them to stay in business.
But the government said too bad. They hired...
Four Gweru city employees found themselves in hot water after they dared to speak out against the poor working conditions at the burial of their colleague who tragically suffocated while clearing a manhole. Olivia Masunda, Silas Mutendeudzwa, and two others, Ivony and Ngazimbi, were slapped with a suspension without pay or benefits for their bold actions.
The hammer came down in the form of a letter dated November 13, 2024, signed by none other than Gweru City Engineer Masauso Store himself. The letter made some serious accusations, claiming that the fearless foursome had insulted and made malicious comments about the city's management, all with the intention of stirring up trouble and causing a ruckus.
The suspension was no slap on...
President Mnangagwa thinks Zimbabwe's economy will grow a lot in 2025. He says it will go up by 6%, which is more than the 2% people think it will grow in 2024. He believes this will happen because farming and mining will do better.
But there are still some big problems in Zimbabwe. Sometimes the power goes out for a whole day or even longer! That's a really long time to not have any electricity.
President Mnangagwa told some important people at a big meeting that he's sure things will get better. He said the government is being careful with money and won't spend too much.
But not everyone agrees with the president. A man named Corban Madzivanyika doesn't think the economy can grow that much. He says the power problems make it hard...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu PF party is up to something big. They're holding meetings all over the country. They want people to support their plan to keep Mnangagwa in office until 2030. That's a long time!
These meetings aren't just about getting support, though. They're also about finding out who's against the idea. That could cause some real trouble in the party.
Mnangagwa's term is supposed to end in 2028. But some people close to the situation say he's secretly backing this campaign. His loyal supporters, like Owen Ncube and Daniel Garwe, are pushing for it.
Not everyone is happy about this, though. Some people in the party who support Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga don't like the idea. They think Chiwenga...
A sneaky Zimbabwean accountant named Edward Mwanandimai is in hot water for stealing a jaw-dropping R17 million from his old job at a Johannesburg non-profit called Education and Training Unit (ETU). He pulled off this crazy heist over six long years! The juicy details came out when the ETU took Mwanandimai to the North Gauteng High Court to try and get their money back.
Even though Mwanandimai is a fancy UK-certified accountant, the ETU says he swiped a ton of cash right under their noses. They only figured it out after he quit in May 2020. At first, Mwanandimai owned up to stealing about R6.8m in September 2020 and even paid it back. But later, the ETU found out he'd actually stolen way more - over R17.1m!
The high court heard that...
In a jaw-dropping turn of events, cops recently nabbed a gang of five bold thieves who've been brazenly stealing fuel from the Feruka pipeline. This shocking crime spree has put the country's infrastructure and economy at serious risk. The startling revelation came out last Friday at a big event where over 40 detectives from all sorts of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) sections got awards for catching some of the most wanted and notorious criminals around.
These brave detectives came from all over the place, like the CID Homicide section that handles the really violent cases, and from cities like Bulawayo, Mwenezi, Norton, and Marondera. But the real heroes of the day were the fearless team from Marondera who managed to take...
The Zanu PF party wants President Mnangagwa to stay in charge until 2030. They say he needs to finish the projects he started to make Zimbabwe a better place. The party had a big meeting to discuss this. They said all the provinces agreed that President Mnangagwa should stay as leader for longer.
Some critical party members, like Cde Tavengwa and Cde Masimirembwa, said President Mnangagwa is doing well. They think he should stay in office past 2028 when he's supposed to stop being president. They say they might have to change the rules to let him stay longer.
Another party leader, Cde Garwe, said everyone at the meeting wanted President Mnangagwa to stay until 2030. He said President Mnangagwa has a vision for the country and needs...
Folks won't believe what's cooking in Bulawayo! Deputy Mayor Edwin Ndlovu is sitting in jail, and boy, is he mad about it! He says the whole thing smells fishy. The cops nabbed him and his buddy, Councillor Mpumelelo Moyo, saying they tried to squeeze $20,000 from some Chinese business folks who wanted to build a cement factory.
The Crazy Arrest Story
Get this - Ndlovu says he was just being a good friend when he got caught up in this mess. The town clerk rang him up about his pal Moyo being in hot water. Like any decent person would do, he rushed to the police station to check on his friend. But surprise, surprise - the anti-corruption cops slapped the cuffs on him too! They didn't even tell him why!
The Plot Thickens
Here's where it...
