HARARE – The total value of transactions processed through the national payment system (NPS) declined by nine percent to $951,8 million from $1 billion in the third week of April, latest Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) statistics indicate. Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) transactions, the central bank said, “recorded a five percent decline from $790,61…
HARARE – State-run pensions administrator, National Social Security Authority (Nssa), has missed its April 30 deadline to appoint substantive top management. In October last year, the institution embarked on a major management shake-up, which saw the departure of general manager James Matiza and four others. Matiza was immediately replaced by Hashmon Matemera, in an acting…
HARARE – The boycott by workers of the government-organised Workers’ Day rally in Harare on Monday, at which embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the guest of honour, has opened the Midlands godfather to fresh attacks from his Zanu PF enemies. Ruling party officials linked to Zanu PF’s ambitious Young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40)…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says it will continue boycotting all elections until sticking points have been resolved and far-reaching electoral reforms enacted. This comes as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is finalising preparations for the by-elections in Mazowe North, which has been vacant since the death of Edgar Chidavaenzi…
HARARE – Representatives of African civil society groups are attending an international conference in Harare on ways to end election conflicts, formulate democracy education and monitoring of human rights violations. Zimbabwe, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda will share their experiences on elections and locating citizen participation in African elections, the gains and drawbacks, and will be…
HARARE – Workers have accused the government of bullying them in the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC). Apex Council chairperson Cecilia Alexander said government was not listening to workers and had adopted a “take-it-or-leave-it approach” at the negotiating table. “The current NJNC is as unconstitutional as it is unfair as its provisions favour the employer,…
BULAWAYO – Police here banned the first anti-national pledge demonstration by the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) yesterday, saying it had not been sanctioned by authorities and therefore, illegal. Anti-riot police broke up the march by the far-left protesters in the city as they sought to demonstrate against a national pledge for children, which was introduced in…
HARARE – In a state like ours, where the government hides its undemocratic tendencies behind the smokescreen of the Official Secrets Act and conceals important information from the public under the cloak of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, where corruption is rampant and bad governance is the order of the day…
HARARE – United Kingdom-based RnB singer Saewyd ‘Saysay’ Mutiwanyuka has collaborated with Mutare-based hip hop artiste Kritic Igwee on a track titled Hustler. Saysay, who rose to fame after a duet with “I’d rather be a gangster singer” Laygwan Sharkie over a decade ago, is confident that the new single will inspire people to work…
LAGOS – About $15bn (£10bn) was stolen from the fight against militant Islamists in Nigeria under the previous government, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said. The money was diverted through fraudulent arms contracts, he added. Several allies of ex-President Goodluck have been put on trial after being accused of awarding fake arms contracts worth $2bn. They…
