Early this week, Cameroon joined Kenya, Gambia, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana in banning shisha smoking. But the idea of banning it in Zimbabwe could be a problem.
"The State House was never built for Mugabe (late President Robert) and Mnangagwa (President Emmerson)," Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni said, as he sought to justify why the council should also build a ZW$25 million mayoral mansion. Mguni is in the eye of a storm following revelations that the financially struggling local authority has resolved to…
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By Bulawayo Correspondent
THE Bulawayo City Council has invited angry protests from a residents’ group after reinstating two of its employees who had been summarily dismissed by management for stealing a Jojo tank.
Council’s General Purposes Committee recently overturned a management resolution to expel the two employees who had stolen a Jojo tank from Kwezi training centre in the city’s Pelandaba suburb.
In reaching the decision, the committee argued the sentence against the employees was harsh.
In overturning the verdict, the committee suggested a written warning was appropriate in the circumstances.
However, the move has invited protests from the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) which wrote recently to the local authority expressing its resentment over the decision.
GOODBYE STRESS, HELLO BOOZE PARTY! Bulelwa Ginindza
LIFE without alcohol wasn’t cool.
This was according to Emmanuel Ndlovu from Kabokweni in Mpumalanga, who was queueing at Liquor City yesterday to buy booze after a month-long closure.
On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa had announced the reopening of liquor outlets throughout the country.
Ndlovu said he’d been stressed and sober for a while.
He said he didn’t even enjoy the festive season since the selling of alcohol was banned.
Speaking to Daily Sun, he said he couldn’t afford to buy expensive booze and had to wait for the ban to be lifted.