Three guys working for Harare City Council got killed at the Morton Jaffray water plant near Norton while doing something on an old clarifier that wasn't being used anymore. The city says they're looking into what happened and the cops showed up to check things out. The water supply isn't affected, apparently.
This is the second time council workers have died on the job in the past few months. Back in August, two dudes at the Firle sewage plant in Glen View died after breathing in hydrogen sulphide during maintenance work. That place handles waste for the whole city and pumps out nasty gases like methane and ammonia that can blow up or suffocate people if you're not careful.
Zimbabwe just rolled out a health insurance thing that costs people basically nothing and gives them access to clinics. The Community Health Equity Fund started up in Hopley and lets residents pay one dollar to sign up plus two bucks every year after that. Members get free checkups at government clinics and cheaper pregnancy care.
The program hooks people up with meds, lab work, scans, and maternity stuff like deliveries and c-sections. Health Minister Douglas Mombeshora says this helps the country hit its goal of becoming middle-income while making sure broke communities can actually see a doctor. The fund got about 700k from UNFPA to get things started.
Harare's mayor says the city needs to upgrade clinics because more people will...
A Harare family rolled up to Chief Mutasa's court asking for help because they think some spiritual curse has them locked down. The Mugayi siblings told the chief that none of them can stay married and one sister hit her 40s without ever getting hitched, while everyone keeps getting sick. They dropped $1500 on a healer who said he yanked out some goblin but literally nothing changed after that.
The dad basically said his kids are being dramatic and the only real problem is his unmarried daughter. He claimed the sons get aggressive and have already decided who the wizard is before even consulting anyone. The brothers started beefing with each other because some of them think their own sibling is behind everything.
Chief Mutasa wants...
Budiriro locals are hyped after cops finally raided a sketchy spot at Current Shopping Centre that had been operating as both a drug den and a brothel. The shutdown happened after residents flagged the mess during some anti-drug campaign, and when authorities rolled through, they found the place covered in used condoms and other nasty stuff.
One woman said the increased patrols have been legit because the troublemakers had basically been acting like they ran the neighborhood. The deputy provincial police spokesperson confirmed they demolished the whole operation after getting complaints from disgusted community members during routine awareness visits. She made it clear that brothels are illegal and the force plans to crack down harder...
A Zimbabwean court told Karoi Town Council they blew their chance to fire their acting town secretary because they took way longer than the law allows to wrap up his disciplinary case. The judge said the council broke the mandatory 14 working day deadline under some 2006 statute and also suspended Tongai Namisala twice without bringing him back between suspensions, which basically nuked their whole process.
Namisala was running the finance department and filling in as town secretary when cops grabbed him over claims he shook down a master plan engineer for more than 53 grand. The council started trying to fire him, but kept postponing hearings from late last year until they finally convicted him months later. An arbitrator already...
Zimbabwe's finance minister dropped a new tax that hits people pulling US dollars out of banks. The government wants to push everyone toward digital payments because physical American cash makes up most transactions and lets people dodge taxes easier.
Individual withdrawals under $500 monthly stay tax-free but anything between $501 and $1000 gets hit with 2 percent, while amounts over that face 3 percent. Companies get higher thresholds with no tax up to $5000 then the same rate structure kicks in. Banks already charge 3 percent on withdrawals before this new levy even starts.
Financial sector people immediately trashed the plan, saying it just pushes customers away from formal banking and sends transactions straight back underground...
Eight miners died after floodwater rushed into an illegal shaft beneath a Penhalonga residence when heavy rainfall hit the area. The victims were working underground at a home on Rizende Road in Redwing Mine when water from a connected tunnel system trapped them. Recovery teams spent two days pulling out all the bodies from the flooded operation.
The homeowner admitted she was running the unauthorized mining setup to support her three kids after her husband passed away. She borrowed $10,000 from business contacts to cover funeral costs for all eight men. The dead miners came from Buhera, Zimunya, Marange, and Masvingo, with some leaving behind pregnant wives and young families.
Relatives expressed anger about the lack of compensation...
A Harare magistrate just tossed fraud charges against NetOne's chief executive engineer, Raphael Mushanawani, after prosecutors claimed he ran a sketchy US$1.2 million scheme. Regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa said the company knew about every system upgrade he handled and there was zero evidence connecting him to any crime.
The whole mess started when investigators thought Mushanawani secretly hired Lunartech Solutions to upgrade a SAGE 1000 accounting platform that NetOne was already replacing with new software from Farevic Systems. His lawyer, Admire Rubaya, basically said investigators had no clue how tech operations work at mobile carriers and that the board signed off on upgrading SAGE to the L200 version because vendor...
A primary school teacher from Selbourne got busted for jacking cash from her ex and landed herself doing community service hours at Wilkins Hospital instead of straight prison time. Patricia Yusufu swiped over five grand from Mike Charles, and magistrate Nyaradzo Manokore handed down a suspended sentence that banks on her staying clean for three years while paying restitution and grinding through 170 hours of hospital work.
The whole situation blew up after Mike caught wind of Patricia allegedly hooking up with some married dude named Walter, who lives overseas and apparently bought her a Honda Fit during their affair. Mike claimed he found proof that his wife of 18 years had been messing around with three different guys, which tanked...
