Godwin Moyo apparently angered some Zanu PF supporters who were part of the meeting when he said that their party does not have pan-Africanist values.
A renewable energy advisor with SNV Netherlands Development Organisation said Zimbabwe is endowed with abundant sunshine which it can utilize for solar energy.
Mayor Martin Moyo told Studio 7 Friday that plans are at an advanced stage for the city to introduce the meters.
'The crop of leaders we have today they like money, they don’t like people … They are for themselves not for the people'
Maphenduka says the main purpose of his book is to show that a distinct Ndebele kingdom, established by King Mzilikazi, with all the attributes of a nation, was in existence.
In the pre-independence era and the following few years after independence, Bulawayo used to be Zimbabwe’s industrial hub.
At the various polling stations that Studio 7 visited, there were few voters who were coming to cast their ballots after long intervals.
Ruth Banda, recently got a $400 loan from a money lending institution after spending almost half a year without getting her salary.
An academic, Dion Nkomo argues that it is difficult for some people to be optimistic about Africa's future as its problems have been persisting despite global interventions.
"I am personally against the decision to boycott by-elections because Zanu-PF will use this to its advantage."
Some of them claim that a lot of national programs are only tailor-made for supporters of President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF party and not all 8 million Zimbabwean youths.
Gweru Town Clerk Daniel Matau declined to comment on the agitated workers’ outstanding salaries and wages.
ZCTU president George Nkiwane told VOA Studio 7 it is sad that the government is seeking to amend labour laws, particularly those to do with hiring and firing.
Council needs to rationalize the salaries of management and senior staff and to ensure that wages and salaries do not gobble more than 30 per cent of the local authority's revenue.
Most local opposition parties are of the view that President Mugabe’s new continental post will not benefit Zimbabwe.
They include Zanu PF candidate Auxillia Mnangagwa, who is wife of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the National Constitutional Assembly party's Munashe Mutodza and Transform Zimbabwe's Zbigail Rumbidzai Musambasi.
The demonstrators called for the Gweru City Council to stop the proposed rate increases and reversal of its decision to refer defaulting ratepayers to debt collectors.
Some informal traders are now concerned that the declining economy will negatively affect their small operations even though a few are recording good profits.
The Zimbabwe National Students Union has expressed the same sentiments, adding that this is only a Zanu PF program.
Offering his condolences, Magaya said the bereaved families will receive a $1000 donation each from his Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries for burial purposes.
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