The Auditor-General says Harare City Council failed to provide payroll records supporting ZiG691.29 billion in employee costs, resulting in adverse audit opinions. By Southerton Business Times Reporter | HARARE The Harare City Council (HCC) failed to provide supporting payroll records for ZiG691.29 billion in employee salary payments over two financial years, prompting the Auditor-General to issue adverse audit opinions on the municipality's 2022 and 2023 financial statements

The Government is reviewing proposals to increase health-specific, risk and transport allowances for public health workers as part of ongoing negotiations over salaries and working conditions.

Residents of Buhera have petitioned Parliament over alleged pollution from the Sabi Star Lithium Mine, claiming contaminated water, dust-related illnesses among schoolchildren and livestock deaths.

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has criticised Mwenezi RDC CEO Albert Chivanga after an Auditor-General's report revealed that a council motorcycle was allocated to a non-employee without council approval.

Zimbabwe's Constitution Amendment Act No. 3 is now law after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the legislation introducing major constitutional reforms.

A Zimbabwe war veteran has filed an urgent High Court application seeking to halt Constitution Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3), alleging MPs received vehicles and cash to influence the legislative process.

A human rights activist has filed a High Court application seeking to block key provisions of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 unless they are approved through a national referendum, setting up a major constitutional battle over presidential and parliamentary term extensions.

HARARE — The Constitutional Court has dismissed separate legal challenges brought by a group of liberation war veterans and opposition legislator Prince Dubeko Sibanda against the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, clearing two immediate legal hurdles facing the proposed legislation.

Permanent Secretary Raphael Faranisi says mining and blasting activities should not take place at cultural heritage sites, warning that the destruction of such locations threatens Zimbabwe's national identity and history.

HARARE – Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe has ordered Members of Parliament (MPs) to halt plans to build residential stands on Harare's protected Monavale Wetland, bringing an end to a controversial development proposal that sparked widespread opposition from environmental activists and conservation groups.

HARARE – Zimbabwe's title deeds validation and securitisation programme has come under renewed scrutiny after concerns were raised in Parliament over the affordability and accessibility of the country's digital land administration reforms.