HARARE – They say comedy is often used to explain chaos, but the one we are seeing in Zanu PF can hardly be described as rib tickling! And as President Robert Mugabe’s party enters what was initially billed as one of its most decisive weeks in its 51-year history, all indications are that the virulent…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa must drastically cut government expenditure — particularly the civil service wage bill — in his 2015 National Budget, renowned economist Tony Hawkins said. The Treasury chief is expected to present the budget today on the back of shrinking revenue while government’s recurrent expenditure is gobbling nearly 80 percent of…
HARARE – Steward Bank (Steward) — a subsidiary of telecoms group Econet Wireless Zimbabwe — has introduced “agent banking”, a concept that allows non-financial businesses to carry out transactions on its behalf. The initiative, Steward Bank’s head of segments Ben Muchina said, “will bring banking to the doorstep of many Zimbabweans”. “…we are determined to…
HARARE – Swedish investors are seeking predictability and security before committing their capital in Zimbabwe, Sweden’s ambassador Lars Ronnås said. He said the investors are “looking at the long-term benefit… so they need to be sure their interests are safe.” “As an ambassador, all I can do is to encourage business people, they see opportunities…
HARARE – High unemployment levels and tight job opportunities for school-leaving university and other tertiary institution graduates have connived to drive a majority of Zimbabweans to the street pavements in an effort to eke out a living. It is least surprising that established formal retailers are now feeling the heat from competition by people spurred…
HARARE – An emotional Rugare Gumbo has opened up on how he and the late revered freedom fighter, General Solomon Mujuru, moved mountains to persuade fellow guerrillas and frontline states to accept President Robert Mugabe as the party’s leader after the death of Herbert Chitepo in the 1970s. Pouring his heart out and narrating his…
HARARE – Embattled Vice President Joice Mujuru and the equally under-fire Public Service minister Nicholas Goche were conspicuous by their absence at yesterday’s Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare. Mujuru, who refused to present her papers for consideration to Zanu PF’s powerful central committee, reportedly sent an apology to the meeting that was chaired by…
HARARE – Police yesterday denied State media claims that they covered up Chipo Mujuru-Makoni’s fatal road accident that claimed the lives of two people. Vice President Joice Mujuru’s daughter was reportedly driving a Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle which rammed into another vehicle killing a two-month-old son of an Iranian doctor Amid Hamidzadeh and a Zimbabwean…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s Mashonaland West provincial executive has petitioned the politburo to block national political commissar Webster Shamu and minister of State in the office of Vice-President Sylvester Nguni from getting central committee posts. Shamu and Nguni won the right to represent Chegutu but the provincial leadership said the two politicians could not be…
BULAWAYO – The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu yesterday said it was finalising a key decision to take part in the proposed opposition “Coalition of Democrats.” Dabengwa, who has described a grand coalition as the best way towards establishing a democratic State, was forced to carry out an internal consultation in order to come up with an…
