BULAWAYO – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has suspended its Bulawayo provincial administrator on allegations of misappropriating more than $10 000 of funds meant to pay polling agents during the July 31 elections. Nkululeko Ndlovu was given his suspension less than a fortnight ago after an audit team from Harare found him on the wrong side…
HARARE – Former CID vehicle and theft squad detective Gilbert Zvaita, who allegedly stole a motor vehicle and attached number plates belonging to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson Rita Makarau, has been found guilty of theft. Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya acquitted Zvaita of the first count of unlawful entry and is expected to rule on…
HARARE – The Thokozani Khuphe Cancer Foundation has pledged to build a hospital that will assist patients get treatment at affordable rates and speed up diagnosis. In an interview after a breakfast meeting at Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel, the opposition leader in the House of Assembly Thokozani Khuphe said since cancer treatment in Zimbabwe is not…
MASVINGO – A severe outbreak of dysentery has hit Mutimurefu Prison in Masvingo, claiming the life of one inmate and affecting about 169 others, officials have confirmed. The outbreak was caused by acute water shortages at the correctional facility. Health officials said about 129 inmates contracted the disease while at least 39 people from the…
HARARE – Captains of industry have called on government to issue title deeds to farmers resettled during the land reform programme. Presenting oral evidence before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Industry and Commerce, Brains Muchemwa, Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) macroeconomics committee chairperson, said government had to correct the perception in the international community…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has declined two positions to 170 out of 185 countries on the ease of doing business, according to the latest World Bank 2014 report. Despite the implementation of the midterm policy as its economic blue print for the past two years, the country has continued to fare poorly on most indicators, raking…
HARARE – On the back of closures by 700 companies and elusive real investment, local industry, particularly the manufacturing sector, is the biggest casualty of years of economic morass and remains in dire straits but Confederations Industries of Zimbabwe (CZI) President Charles Msipa sees a fillip as long as stakeholders and government commit to policies…
HARARE – Last week’s photograph in the media of an earth moving machine at excavations close to the Norton graveyard indicates the extent of our moral bankruptcy. According to the press report, Norton Council had given a Zanu PF activist known as Comrade Yondo, permission to mine for gold next to the Norton cemetery. Can…
HARARE – For the past few months, there has been a significant increase in the number of cases where people are having their properties attached by financial institutions due to non-payments of loans. The high levels of non-performing loans in the country is a sign of the economic crisis Zimbabwe is going through and most…
EDITOR — I refer to your informative report in which you have exposed the evil works of the devil at Irisvale Resettlement area and the subsequent letter from a responding writer Freedom Shumba on October 28, 2013. I honestly believe that the following prescription, the word of God and prayer, is the perfect solution and…
