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THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has reportedly refused to restore water supplies to Binga Rural District Council until the local authority has paid at least $300 000 of its $1,5 million debt. BY PRAISEMORE SITHOLE Zinwa cut off water supplies to Binga in September, forcing residents and business operators to turn to boreholes and other unsafe water sources. Binga Residents Association vice-chairperson Samson Sibanda said Zinwa recently met council officials and indicated that it would restore water supplies after the local authority has paid at least $300 000 towards settling the bill. “We met and agreed on the way forward for water to be reopened. Council is the one that owes Zinwa money and not the residents. For water to be reopened Zinwa said they require at least $300 000 from the council,” Sibanda said. “Residents of Masoja area who are affected by the water cut started to protest and demonstrate saying they had been paying council and the issue has to be resolved immediately.” Binga district development co-ordinator Farai Marinyame confirmed that stakeholders met on Wednesday to try to resolve the crisis. “I was not on the ground, but there was a meeting between Zinwa, residents and the council to solve the ongoing water crisis. For now there is still no water as council is still negotiating with Zinwa so that they take that project,” Marinyame said. “The main problem is that residents are not paying up.” Binga RDC chief executive officer Joshua Muzamba said he was still out of Binga. “I am still out of Binga, just look for those on the ground who can give you information,” he said. Zinwa spokesperson Marjorie Munyonga, who previously pleaded with residents to pay up, yesterday said she was out of office and was yet to be briefed on the latest developments.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
The leaders of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt agreed that Ethiopia will delay filling a mega-dam on the Blue Nile and return to talks aimed at reaching an accord on use of the river's waters, according to statements from Cairo and Khartoum.
The announcement late on Friday was a modest reprieve from weeks of bellicose rhetoric and escalating tensions over the $4.6bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Ethiopia had vowed to start filling at the start of the rainy season in July.
There was no immediate comment from Ethiopia on the agreement, beyond a tweet from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that described an African Union (AU) summit discussion about the dam as \"fruitful\".
Ethiopia won't fill the dam before inking the much-anticipated deal, Hamdok said in a statement, adding: \"Sudan is one of the biggest beneficiaries from the dam and also one of the biggest losers if risks are not mitigated, thus it urges Egypt and Ethiopia to the impending necessity ... of finding a solution.\"
Sticking points in the talks have been how much water Ethiopia will release downstream from the dam if a multi-year drought occurs and how Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan will resolve any future disagreements.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan
Three US lawmakers have asked Zoom Video Communications to clarify its data-collection practices and relationship with the Chinese government after the firm said it had suspended user accounts to meet demands from Beijing.
The California-based firm has come under heavy scrutiny after three US and Hong Kong-based activists said their accounts had been suspended and meetings disrupted after they tried to hold events related to the anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown.
We do not have a backdoor…
“We did not provide any user information or meeting content to the Chinese government,” Zoom said in a statement.
Zoom founder Yuan grew up and attended university in China before migrating to the US in the mid-1990s.
US-based Humanitarian China founder Zhou Fengsuo said he welcomed Zoom’s acknowledgement of the suspensions but said it was unacceptable for the company “to separate China users from the rest of the world”.
Transnet has been in the midst of an overhaul over the past year, following revelations of corruption and mismanagement under its previous executives including Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh and Siyabonga Gama, among others.
FORMER Miss Ireland International and Model Guide brand ambassador Blessing Mutamba yesterday said there was need to enhance the professional training of Zimbabwean beauty queens and ensure that the local modelling industry was abreast with trends and developments in global pageantry. BY PHILLIP CHIDAVAENZI Mutamba, who holds a masters degree in entrepreneurship, said unless training was enhanced, local models would continue stuttering on the global stage. The beauty queen said her partnership with the Model Guide online magazine was meant to help local models appreciate the demands of international modelling through offering professional and tailor-made training at affordable prices. “We realised in Zimbabwe the arts industry is very easy for people to get substandard teaching from people who claim to have the knowledge but do not have much credibility behind them,” she said. “The main problem we are trying to solve is that people are being charged extortionist fees for training, which is not really up to scratch and this training is usually given by modelling agencies but is not really helpful when they are trying to compete on the international stage.” Mutamba said the major challenge in Zimbabwe was that models were receiving coaching from people that did not necessarily have the relevant experience and solid record in the modelling field. “Some people are paying quite a huge amount of money, more than US$15 a class, to be able to access this expertise,” she said. “There have been reforms in the modelling industry around the globe and in Zimbabwe we seem to be falling behind.” The Miss Ireland 2019 said a lot of models on the local scene were passed off for opportunities they would have been good for simply because of height or waist difference of a few inches and that was something she was hoping the new modelling academy would deal with. “Modelling is about embracing each person’s strengths and amplifying them, not making a square peg fit into a round hole,” she said. “My speciality is in pageant modelling. I’ve done some commercial modelling and runway modelling, too, but when you look at the type of information people are given in the Zimbabwean modelling industry, it is all about what type of look do you have when it should be what type of modelling are you interested in.” Mutamba said the academy would equip models with public speaking skills, business acumen and social media marketing strategies and train them to manage themselves the way they would manage a business. Under her new partnership with Model Guide, Mutamba said they would be offering group membership at US$10 for an online group class covering all topics in their curriculum, and one-on-one training at US$15 focusing on one topic of the member’s choice from their training curriculum and a monthly membership of US$25. The monthly membership would give members access to training handbooks and guides, one monthly online one-on-one training session, a single session on a topic of the member’s choice and admission to an online monthly networking eve
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a Cabinet meeting Sunday to prepare a new state of emergency to stem surging coronavirus infections, a move that could impose curfews and other restrictions across the country. Sánchez's government said Saturday night that a majority of Spain's regional leaders have agreed to a new state of emergency and the meeting Sunday was to study its terms. The state of emergency gives the national government extraordinary powers, including the ability to temporarily restrict basic freedoms guaranteed in Spain's Constitution such as the right to free […]
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By Associated Press Undefined ROME (AP) — In much of Europe, city squares and streets, be they wide, elegant boulevards like in Paris or cobblestoned alleys in Rome, serve as animated evening extensions of living rooms, places to gather and be seen, areas to laugh, chat and drink with friends. Yet with the continent hit hard by a surge of record new daily infections, European governments have once again put limitations on how residents live and socialize. In response, AP photographers across Europe delivered a snapshot of how Friday evening — the gateway to the weekend — looks and feels […]
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