Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Photo: A resident ponders the rainy New Caledonia landscape in January. New Caledonia is one area which has seen illegal land grabs abound. (Harry Davies) Story by Harry Davies and Farai Dauramanzi With the 2018 elections drawing near, residents and analysts fear an increase in corrupt land grabs as the ruling party shores itself up financially
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Environmentalists and residents in the capital have welcomed the court’s decision to block property developers from constructing at least 121 cluster houses on the Monavale Vlei. Administrative Court judge, Justice Herbert Mandeya, delivered the judgment early November...
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
In November last year, two Ramsar officials visited Zimbabwe to check on the country’s progress in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Dele Amah, a top Ramsar secretariat official and assistant to the Ramsar Advisor in Africa, and Denis...
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Recently appointed Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Oppah Muchinguri, has approved developments on Borrowdale wetland despite strong opposition to the controversial scheme. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Augur Investments’ Millenium Park project was certified on...
Monday, July 13th, 2015
Students from some Harare schools have been deeply disturbed by the intended developments on the Monavale vlei by a Harare family. The pupils expressed their concerns about the proposed developments and asked council to intervene. They are...
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Various apostolic sects have taken over many of the city’s open spaces in contravention of the City of Harare’s (CoH) by-laws. Harare News toured a number of spots where these sects conduct their business to check if...
Monday, June 8th, 2015
The divisive fight for wetlands – with developers and authorities in one corner, and residents and conservationists in the other – has seen shifting front lines in recent weeks. Reports from Monavale, Marlborough and Ashbrittle, and the...
Monday, May 18th, 2015
Conservation signs erected on Monavale Vlei were torn down yesterday (Sunday 17 March) in what worried local residents see as an expression of intent by private developers to start building on the wetland. It is a protected...
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
The ramifications of the current world-wide water shortage should persuade politicians in Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) to incorporate the issues of wetlands into their priorities, said water experts at a SADC event hosted in Harare from...
Saturday, February 7th, 2015
More than three hundred people gathered on Monavale Wetland yesterday, in recognition of World Wetlands Day. The event was hosted by Birldlife Zimbabwe and the Conservation Society of Monovale, and was a follow up from a conference...
