HARARE – The Zimbabwe and Angola business community have appealed to their respective governments to relax visa requirements or scrap the visa altogether between the two countries to enhance trade. Julio Mateus, Zimbabwe Angola Business Community (Zaba) vice chairperson, told a breakfast meeting the visa was hindering business between the two countries. “As the business…
HARARE – Emmanuel Makandiwa has launched miracle-working anointing oil to prepare his United Family International Church (UFIC) members for the glorious economic era that he predicted for Zimbabwe on Saturday. The celebrity preacher told the multitudes that turned up at the Glamis Arena in Harare for the “Resurrection Service” on Sunday that God had finally…
HARARE – Civil servants who participated in the July 31 harmonised elections on an MDC ticket have complained that they are being denied readmission into the civil service. The development comes despite the Civil Service Commission (CSC) advising government workers on August 26, 2013 that they would remain in government employ. The Public Service Act,…
HARARE – Buy Zimbabwe is lobbying government to impose a ban on textile imports. The lobby group is working with the Zimbabwe Clothing Manufacturers Association (ZCMA) to lobby government to enforce the textile import ban. This comes as ZCMA recently appeared before a parliamentary portfolio committee lamenting the state of the textile industry, whose poor…
HARARE – Tauya Shumba, the liver cancer patient who was detained at Harare Central Hospital over a $227 hospital bill, has died. Shumba, 34, died on Saturday night, a few hours after his release from one of the country’s major referral hospitals. Several relatives and friends gathered at JL 11 Kaserera Street in Rugare for…
HARARE – Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has said the city is looking at ways to compatibly work with vendors who have invaded Harare’s streets. Speaking at the sidelines of the launch of the carnival clean-up campaign last week, Manyenyeni said a good relationship was needed between the local authority and vendors. “We want to build…
HARARE – An audit of Chegutu Municipality has exposed official rot, with the local authority operating without a fixed asset register and flagrantly violating the Urban Councils Act. The Urban Development Corporation audit unearthed anomalies in how the town is conducting its businesses, pointedly irregularities in the allocation and administration of the council’s commercial and…
HARARE – On Friday, Zimbabwe celebrated her 34th year of independence from Britain amid an environment that contradicts a country acting consistently with its freedom. Every Zimbabwean, us included, will never put value to the sacrifices by the selfless gallant sons and daughters of this country who waged a bloodletting struggle to free this country….
HARARE – Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa says Zimbabwe must introduce economic reforms to support the reintroduction of the Special Economic Zones (Sez). Speaking at a Special Economic Zone (Sez) workshop — jointly organised by government, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme and the African Development Bank — in the capital last week, Chidhakwa said Sezs…
HARARE – This year’s tobacco selling season has already seen the green-leaf farmers earning $266 million since its opening in February, up eight percent from $246 million raked in the prior period last year. Figures released by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) reveal that farmers, who sold 25,9 million kgs of their crop…
