HARARE – We have said this before and feel it is important to say it again: loose and unfounded social media gossip about President Robert Mugabe’s supposed death is in very bad taste and must be condemned in the strongest of terms by all right-thinking Zimbabweans. Despite Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba confirming this week that…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday met all mayors and council chairpersons elected on an MDC ticket, and heard harrowing tales of how service delivery has been grievously undermined by political interference particularly from Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo. It emerged in the meeting that revenues had dwindled in almost all the local authorities…
BULAWAYO – A school head at Simanyane special care school in Bulawayo, Nyaradzo Fungura has challenged the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) administrator to prioritise the intellectually challenged in their budget. Fungura’s challenge comes after the government allocated only $15 million to Beam in the 2014 national budget which cannot cater for many students. “Currently,…
HARARE – War veterans have demanded that President Robert Mugabe establishes a standalone ministry responsible for their welfare. They have also demanded a hike to their pensions. This comes 16 years after they bullied the government into paying them billions of dollars in gratuities, which sent the dollar crashing, and the economy on a downward…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy will only grow by 3,3 percent this year, according to latest World Bank forecasts published in its Global Economic Prospects report. The figure is a far cry from governments overly ambitious projections of 6,1 percent announced by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in his 2014 budget. The global lender was however, more…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party has called for the unconditional enrolment of all disadvantaged pupils in schools this year, saying it is unconstitutional for children not to receive primary education. This comes as almost a million disadvantaged children who depend on State assistance to pay school fees may be unable to enrol as the…
HARARE – The sheriff’s second bid to attach minister Douglas Mombeshora’s household property hit a brickwall again on Thursday. Police manning Mombeshora residence in Borrowdale blocked the sheriff and his team for the second time from attaching the minister’s wife Millicent Mombeshora’s property. Harare businessman Francis Muzeya, owner of Long Park Services operating as Seasons…
HARARE – The attachment of property of youth empowerment activist James Pande was precipitated by a deal gone sour between a high-ranking government minister and businessman Isaac Levy. Pande is president of the Zimbabwe Entrepreneurs Youth Action (Zeya) and is famed for his Hovhorosi style designer clothing label holding President Robert Mugabe’s loopy signature. According…
HARARE – Products of global consumer hygiene and health manufacture, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), such as ‘Cobra’, are in short supply in most retail chains following the closure of its local factory. RB managing director, Agrippa Mandiwona said the company was facing transitional challenges thus affecting its supply chain. “The shortages are temporary and have been…
BULAWAYO – A Bulawayo couple has been arrested for allegedly forging a Mineral Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) official’s signature and the organisation’s letterhead in a foiled bid to lure foreign diamond dealers to their “fake” company. Sihle MacDonald and Bruce Macdonald appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Abednico Ndebele facing forgery charges and were remanded out…
