HARARE – Parliamentarians have lamented the lack of adequate funding towards key government ministries from Treasury in the budgetary allocations made recently. The 21 chairpersons of the various portfolio committees presented reports from the Parliamentary committees that have spent the last week considering the Budget in relation to the ministries they oversee. Finance minister Patrick…
HARARE – Long-suffering Zimbabweans face another bleak Christmas next week, with both political and economic analysts fingering President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu PF party’s continuing misrule as the genesis of the crisis. Analysts, corporates, trade unions and ordinary Zimbabweans canvassed by the Daily News yesterday were united in bemoaning 2014 as “yet another…
HARARE – Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has cancelled round two of his victory celebrations that were scheduled to take place today at his Sherwood Farm, just outside Kwekwe. Sources told the Daily News yesterday that the secretive Zanu PF stalwart had apparently taken this unexpected decision because he was allegedly afraid of antagonising President Robert…
HARARE – Pritchard Zimondi, who brutally murdered his girlfriend in 2012 will leave jail aged 41, after High Court judge Hlekani Mwayera yesterday slapped him with an 18-year prison term. In passing sentence, Mwayera said the court had considered that Zimondi was a youthful offender, who was the breadwinner to his terminally ill mother. She…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s 106 percent mobile penetration rate is misleading in relation to connectivity and access as only 60 percent of the population is estimated to have mobile devices, the country’s telecommunications industry regulator says. Baxton Sirewu, acting director general of the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz), said despite the “apparently impressive…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is now making “token” payments to the European Investment Bank (EIB) as part of efforts towards financial re-engagement with international financiers, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said. The heavily indebted country is already making part payments to the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). Although Chinamasa…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Prisons Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi says the club will not release Lloyd Mutasa to coach Premiership side CAPS United next season. Although Mutasa’s roots are at Dynamos, he has, however, emerged as a serious candidate for the Makepekepe hot seat following the resignation of Taurai Mangwiro earlier this month….
HARARE – Fans have reacted with dismay following a strong Takashinga Cricket Club’s defeat to Uganda in Kampala on Thursday. Takashinga, composing a number of national team players on this low key tour, are on a tour of minnows Uganda, a trip which has attracted widespread criticism due to the make-up of the squad. The…
HARARE – I was in Bulawayo when I read an article in Tuesday’s issue of the Daily News entitled: “CAPS line up Mutasa,” in which I was quoted by Nigel Matongorere as one of the prominent CAPS fans who is against the appointment of former Dynamos sons at CAPS. For a minute I asked myself…
HARARE – Martin Vengesayi was named the Harare City 2014 Player of the Year at a function held last night to award the club’s outstanding players in the just ended season. David Kutyauripo, who was part of this year’s Soccer Star of the Year finalists, won the team’s Players’ Player of the Year award while…
