The City of Harare is done playing around with people who do not pay their bills. Starting next year, they are kicking off a major crackdown across every district to collect unpaid rates. Council spokesperson Stanley Gama put out a statement saying a bunch of residents have not paid a cent in over three years, which is crippling their ability to provide services. The city plans to take these folks to court right away, serving them with a legal summons to force payment.
Gama specifically called out churches and schools as institutions sitting on huge unpaid debts. He noted that many churches are not paying the required public assembly fees and have not even approved their building plans, making their operations technically illegal. The...
A chef from Victoria Falls is locked up after a really dumb attempt to hide a gambling loss. Elias Ncube, a forty-eight-year-old from Mkhosana, totally blew through twenty two hundred dollars that was not even his. The money belonged to a local stokvel group, one of those community savings pools. He lost it all at a betting shop.
Facing the music with the people he stole from, Ncube panicked and went to the cops with a fake story. He claimed he got robbed of the cash. Police investigators quickly figured out his story was garbage. His own wife, Angela Chuma, told them the truth that he blew the group's money on bets. That got him arrested for lying to authorities.
Ncube pleaded guilty in front of Magistrate Linda Dzvene. The...
Matabeleland South is getting a major infrastructure push because it is hosting the national Independence Day event. This comes from the Minister of State for the province, Albert Nguluvhe. A huge part of the plan involves building forty new science labs in schools across the region. The main focus is on upgrades in Maphisa, where the children's party and a music gala will happen. Mahetshe Primary School, the kids' party site, will get eight new classroom blocks, eight teacher houses, two early childhood rooms, a computer lab, and a better sports field. The secondary school hosting the music gala will see a seven-hundred-seat hall, more classrooms, an A-level wing, a computer lab, staff bathrooms, two science labs, an admin building...
Traffic is absolutely bonkers at the upgraded Beitbridge border post right now. The Zimborders Consortium, which runs the place under a seventeen and a half year deal with the government, says light vehicle numbers have exploded for the holidays. Usually, they see about three hundred passenger cars a day, but that number has jumped to around thirteen hundred. The surge comes from Zimbabweans and travelers from nearby countries like Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique all heading through this major crossing. The border's revamp, a three-hundred-million-dollar project done through a public-private partnership, had Zimborders funding the construction while the government provided land and technical support.
During a visit by Tourism Minister...
The UAE is doubling down on being a tourist and money magnet. They are pushing a bunch of new perks and a big national plan to make tourism grow faster and greener. This comes from a local news agency. The country already has a lot going for it, like its spot on the map between major regions and solid laws. Those benefits keep paying off.
Numbers show it is working. The UAE sits in the top seven worldwide for money spent by visitors from other countries. It leads in stuff like airport and travel infrastructure rankings. In the first six months of the year, hotels there saw over sixteen million guests. More than twelve hundred hotels, with over two hundred sixteen thousand rooms total, made that possible.
A key part of the push is...
A traffic stop on the Birchenough Bridge road near Mt Selinda turned up a huge drug haul. Police in Manicaland found over thirty-one kilograms of mbanje hidden inside banana sacks on a bus. Provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Wiseman Chinyoka said the cannabis has a street value of around three thousand five hundred dollars. The suspected owner of the drugs ran away after officers discovered it.
Chipinge Traffic officers were doing a normal patrol when they stopped the Inter Africa bus. They smelled a strong odor coming from the luggage compartment. A search revealed four sacks that seemed full of bananas. Officers looked inside and found packages of cannabis concealed within the fruit. The driver and conductor claimed...
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo promised a bunch of new cars and two million dollars for charity programs. He posted about giving ten new Toyota Land Cruisers and a million dollars to a special welfare fund. Two other funds would each get five of those same vehicles and half a million dollars. He said these gifts need a thumbs-up from President Mnangagwa first. Chivayo mentioned this on Unity Day, talking up peace and national togetherness.
He framed the donations as a way for businesspeople to help the government with social programs. The vehicles are meant for outreach work connected to the charity funds. This follows other big gifts from him recently, like buses and over fifty cars for his church. He also gave six Land Cruisers and ten...
Webuycars got slapped with a big fine and has to pay people back. The used car seller agreed to a settlement with the National Consumer Commission. They are on the hook for two point five million rand and another three million in customer refunds. The NCC spokesperson, Phetho Ntaba, stated that the issues originated from complaints made approximately three years ago.
The company broke the rules in the Consumer Protection Act. They failed to offer proper solutions for people after sales agreements were signed. As part of the deal, Webuycars must rewrite their terms and conditions. The new policies must align with the consumer protection law.
They also promised to run education campaigns for their customers. This will inform buyers...
The Education Ministry put out a giant list of C3 county schools for the next Grade 10 class. These institutions are spread across many counties like Baringo, Bomet, and Bungoma. The list includes regular schools and ones for learners with special needs. These are the places that will take students under the new CBC system.
Hundreds of schools are named, covering places from Busia to Garissa and Homa Bay to Kajiado. The list goes through Kakamega, Kericho, Kiambu, and Machakos counties, too. It also includes Makueni, Kitui, Kwale, Laikipia, and Lamu. Schools in Kisumu are on there as well. Each entry provides the specific name of the institution.
The ministry grouped everything by region and county for easier reading. This...
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