HARARE – FIFA has committed to funding the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa)’s new headquarters in Harare, it has been learnt. This comes as association president Cuthbert Dube has been re-appointed to the global body’s standing committees and vice president Ndumiso Gumede had said in February that they were angling for a $500 000 grant from…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s junior men and women hockey teams went into camp in Harare yesterday to prepare for next week’s Youth Olympic Games Qualifiers in Lusaka, Zambia. The tournament will run between May 10 and 15. Two teams from each category qualify for the Youth Olympic Games to be held in China in August. Both…
HARARE – The cash-strapped Zimbabwe government is failing to remit money deducted from civil servants’ salaries for credit facilities, straining relations between the State and its workers. As a result, civil servants have hit a bad patch with creditors, with some attaching the government workers’ properties and mulling legal action over unpaid dues, which government…
HARARE – Lawmakers want long-serving clerk of parliament Austin Zvoma to appear before the National Assembly to unpack the “hefty” perks he is receiving from the legislature amid public umbrage at “obscene” executive compensation at several State-run institutions. Opposition MDC legislator James Maridadi, tabled the demand while contributing to a debate on corruption moved by…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson, George Charamba, must resign over the Salarygate scandal ostensibly because he benefited through hefty payouts in the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) benefits saga. James Maridadi, an MDC MP, made the call during yesterday’s ministers’ question time. Maridadi asked Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa whether government was going to…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday granted bail to four men accused of assaulting MDC deputy treasurer Elton Mangoma at Harvest House, the party’s headquarters in central Harare, on February 15. Francis Mafimbidzofa, 38, Enock Mukudu, 31, Stefani Tafadzwa Jahwi, 36, and Samson Tumai Nerwande, 41, were on remand pending their bail application. Magistrate Tendai…
HARARE – A legislator in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has attacked his colleagues in the ruling party for squirming about the continued existence of Western sanctions, saying the biggest scourge facing Zimbabwe was corruption. The ruling party’s legislator for Mutoko South, David Chapfika, was contributing to debate on corruption motion moved by MDC Kambudzuma…
HARARE – Jacob Mudenda, Speaker of the National Assembly, yesterday threatened to charge legislators with contempt of Parliament for lying about salaries of public officials. Mudenda alleged lawmakers were violating Zimbabwean Priviledges, Immunities and Powers of Parliament Act. The Act speaks to the rights of parliamentarians to protection from impeachment for what they say in…
HARARE – Government has barred permanent secretaries from sitting on boards of State enterprises in the wake of the Salarygate scandal. This comes amid revelations by the Daily News that three government bureaucrats sat on the beleaguered Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) main board and a committee, which approved Cuthbert Dube’s mega perks, which…
HARARE – The State has withdrawn charges against three MDC activists, who were accused of taking part in the murder of police inspector Petros Mutedza in May, 2011. The three are Jackson Mabota, Tarirai Kusotera and Chenjerai Douglas Muchinenyika. Prosecutor Sharon Mashavira on Monday withdrew the charges against the trio before Harare magistrate Douglas Vakayi…
