Source: Dry Weekend For Harare Residents As Council Shuts Down Morton Jaffray, Warren Control ⋆ Pindula News The City of Harare will effect a citywide water supply disruption from Friday morning to Sunday evening to allow for urgent repairs and cleaning at its two major water facilities. In a public notice issued on 12 August […]
The City of Harare will effect a citywide water supply disruption from Friday morning to Sunday evening to allow for urgent repairs and cleaning at its two major water facilities.
In a public notice issued on 12 August 2026, Acting Town Clerk Warren Chiwawa said water supplies will be disrupted from Friday, 14 August at 6 AM to Sunday, 16 August at 6 PM.
Chiwawa said the disruption is due to a partial shutdown at Morton Jaffray Water Works and a total shutdown of the Warren Control Pump Station to allow for urgent repair of leaks and reservoir cleaning at both facilities.
“Consequently, water supply to the entire City of Harare will be affected during this period,” the notice reads.
The city has urged residents and stakeholders to prepare in advance.
“Residents are urged to store enough water in clean, covered containers before Friday morning and to use water sparingly during the shutdown period,” said Chiwawa.
He said normal water supply is expected to resume on Sunday, 16 August at 6 PM upon completion of the works.
Source: Zimbabwe – United States Department of State During the review period, the government published a timely audit that covered the entire annual executed budget.The government also made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report publicly available online within a reasonable period. The government made information on some debt obligations publicly available, including […]
During the review period, the government published a timely audit that covered the entire annual executed budget. The government also made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report publicly available online within a reasonable period. The government made information on some debt obligations publicly available, including government guarantees of major state-owned enterprise debt, but did not publish total debt holdings by major state-owned enterprises.
Publicly available budget documents did not include a substantially complete picture of revenue and expenditures. Although actual revenues and expenditures did not reasonably correspond to those in the enacted budget, the government publicly issued revised budget estimates. The budget included aggregate allocations to, but not earnings from, state-owned enterprises. The government maintained significant off-budget accounts not subject to audit or oversight.
The military budget, but not the intelligence budget, was subject to parliamentary oversight. The supreme audit institution met international standards of independence, and its reports contained substantive findings.
The government specified in law or regulation, but did not appear to follow in practice, the criteria and procedures for awarding natural resource extraction contracts or licenses. The government did not make basic information on mining concessions publicly available but did publish information on public procurement contracts.
Steps Zimbabwe could take to improve fiscal transparency include:
Publishing debt information of major state-owned enterprises;
Providing a complete picture of revenues and expenditures;
Detailing allocations to and revenues from state-owned enterprises in budget documents;
Eliminating off-budget accounts or subjecting them to adequate oversight and audit, including the intelligence budget;
Following laws and regulations governing natural resource extraction contracting and licensing in practice; and
Publishing basic information on natural resource awards.
Security officer on boat disputes official number of people onboard – says there were 153 people Source: Mnangagwa admits maritime ‘deficiencies’ after Kariba death toll hits 44 – Zimbabwe News Now HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday the capsizing of a boat on Lake Kariba that has killed at least 44 people had […]
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday the capsizing of a boat on Lake Kariba that has killed at least 44 people had exposed “serious deficiencies” in the country’s maritime safety capabilities, as he declared the disaster a national tragedy.
The Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (RIDA) boat capsized in rough conditions on Monday afternoon.
In an update at 1.30PM on Wednesday, police said 44 bodies had been recovered, while 67 people survived, 10 of whom remain hospitalised.
Mnangagwa, in a statement, thanked security forces and private citizens who assisted in the rescue, saying their swift response had prevented further loss of life “in the rough and choppy conditions which obtained on the lake on the day.”
“This tragedy has exposed serious deficiencies in our maritime capabilities which we have to address immediately so that our places of recreation do not become death traps to the innocent,” Mnangagwa said.
He directed all agencies associated with maritime safety, “including, especially specialized units within our security forces, to take an active interest in ensuring remedial interventions in this area,” and declared the incident a National Disaster.
Mnangagwa said the government was working to account for all missing persons. He directed that survivors receive counselling from specialised health services.
“Let us, as a nation, unite in prayer for the souls of the departed, for the success of the ongoing search operations, speedy recovery of survivors and for comfort and strength for the bereaved families,” he said.
Police suggested the boat was overloaded when it went over during heavy winds on Lake Kariba. After initially stating that there were 95 onboard including 90 passengers and five crew, police now say whilst the carrying capacity of the boat was 90 excluding the crew, they now believe the boat had “120 people who were going to Chalala from Kariba.”
Still, some say the number could be higher.
Earnmore Chambati, a security officer who was on the boat, and the only member of the crew to survive, said there were 153 people onboard.
He said his job was “verifying if people have payed to be on the boat, whether they have receipts and also securing the money paid.”
“The people I counted, including children, were 153,” he told the ZBC.
Survivors have recounted stories of how they begged the captain not to sail after noticing violent waves, but he shut them down by declaring “DDF does not drown,” referring to the District Development Fund, the forerunner to RIDA, which owned the boat named Mbuya Nehanda.
LAS VEGAS — Nearly 30 years after the killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, his family is preparing to confront painful memories as the long-awaited murder trial of the man charged in the case gets underway. Mopreme Shakur, Tupac’s stepbrother and a longtime member of the rap group Thug Life, says he remains cautiously optimistic […]
LAS VEGAS — Nearly 30 years after the killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, his family is preparing to confront painful memories as the long-awaited murder trial of the man charged in the case gets underway.
Mopreme Shakur, Tupac’s stepbrother and a longtime member of the rap group Thug Life, says he remains cautiously optimistic that the proceedings could finally provide answers to one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.
Speaking to CNN ahead of the trial, Mopreme acknowledged that sitting through evidence and testimony surrounding his brother’s final moments would inevitably reopen deep wounds for the family.
“Over the years, we have found ways to cope with the trauma, with the drama, and try to still continue on and have a full life,” he said, according to AllHipHop.com.
But after three decades of uncertainty, Mopreme believes the judicial process must now be allowed to run its course.
“I hope that the trial is fair, and we find out the truth,” he said. “The last 30 years have been exhausting and stressful for our family. We’ve waited so long for this moment.”
Keefe D faces trial
Duane “Keefe D” Davis, 63, is the only person ever charged in connection with Tupac’s 1996 murder.
Davis has pleaded not guilty and has remained in custody since his arrest in 2023. He faces a murder charge involving the use of a deadly weapon, with prosecutors alleging that the killing was carried out to promote, further or assist a criminal gang.
The case remained unsolved for decades before Davis made a series of public statements about the shooting, including accounts contained in his 2019 memoir, Compton Street Legend.
Those comments ultimately helped investigators revive the case.
Prosecutors allege that Davis organised the attack after Tupac and members of his entourage assaulted his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on the night of the shooting.
The night Tupac was killed
Tupac was travelling as a passenger in a black BMW driven by Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight after attending the Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996.
As the vehicle stopped at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip, a white Cadillac pulled alongside it and gunfire erupted.
Tupac was struck several times and died six days later at the age of 25. Knight survived the shooting with relatively minor injuries.
The murder occurred amid an increasingly violent rivalry involving Death Row Records, its associated street affiliations and rival groups connected to the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop feud.
Family wants wider questions examined
For Mopreme, however, the trial is about more than establishing responsibility for the shooting itself.
He wants the proceedings to examine broader allegations surrounding Tupac’s death, including claims involving Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Davis has previously alleged that Combs wanted Tupac and Knight killed, an allegation Combs has repeatedly denied.
“I want the trial to explore all the allegations, including what role Diddy may have played,” Mopreme said, according to AllHipHop.com. “We deserve answers. We deserve the truth about what happened to Tupac that night in Las Vegas.”
There is no indication that prosecutors have charged Combs in connection with Tupac’s killing, and the allegations against him remain disputed.
Prosecutors’ case centres on Davis
The prosecution is not expected to establish that Davis personally pulled the trigger.
Instead, prosecutors are expected to argue that he orchestrated the shooting and supplied the weapon used in the attack.
Davis was sitting in the passenger seat of the white Cadillac when the shooting occurred and is among the few people associated with the incident who remain alive.
That makes his alleged role central to the prosecution’s case.
The trial is expected to last approximately a month and will finally put decades of competing theories, allegations and unanswered questions under the scrutiny of a courtroom.
For Tupac’s family, however, the proceedings represent something much more personal.
After nearly three decades of living with uncertainty, Mopreme says the family is prepared to endure the pain of revisiting the past if it brings them closer to the truth.
“Let the process take its course, and see where we land,” he said.
KARIBA — The human cost of Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba ferry disaster has come into sharp focus as the confirmed death toll rose to 44, with families in remote communities still waiting for news of relatives who boarded the Mbuya Nehanda on Tuesday af…
KARIBA — The human cost of Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba ferry disaster has come into sharp focus as the confirmed death toll rose to 44, with families in remote communities still waiting for news of relatives who boarded the Mbuya Nehanda on Tuesday afternoon. Among those mourning is Kariba opposition MP Shine Gwangwaba, who told Masvingo […]
