HARARE – Zimbabwe’s insurance regulator has suspended short-term insurance firm, Heritage, from issuing or renewing policies due to poor financial position. The Insurance and Pension Commission (Ipec) yesterday said it will provide the market with updates on the companies under suspension “as and when any notable developments are reported”. This was after the authority deregistered…
HARARE – The stand-off between medical doctors and medical aid societies has caught the attention of President Robert Mugabe and that is good. But there is no need to pop the champagne bottles yet, if anything we need to cringe at the way Mugabe reacted to the impasse. Instead of tackling the mess, itself a…
HARARE – PRO Air Zimbabwe founder George Munengwa is an unassuming entrepreneur. Despite harvesting seven prestigious awards since his air conditioning and refrigeration services company was formed four years ago, the youthful businessman remains hungry for more. Our business editor John Kachembere caught up with the affable businessman, who recently won the Institute of Directors…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s profligate government officials blew a whopping $35 million on phone calls in 2015 alone, calling into serious question the commitment of President Robert Mugabe’s under-pressure administration to a judicious management of its dwindling revenues. The scandalous news comes at a time that many government functions and critical social services are grinding to…
HARARE – Mines ministry permanent secretary Francis Gudyanga was yesterday grilled by parliamentarians over corruption and mismanagement at the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) and the controversial sale of Murowa Diamonds. Gudyanga, who chairs boards of three parastatals under his purview and has been fingered in a string of scandals involving the ministry of Mines,…
HARARE – Urban grooves musician Desmond Chideme popularly known as Stunner yesterday cheated death in dramatic fashion after hitting five cars with a maroon Lexus he was driving along Jason Moyo Avenue, in Harare. He immediately fled from the scene to a nearby doctor’s surgery where police followed him to record a statement. Witnesses at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo, has quashed raging speculation that he, together with other leading lights of the new political kid on the block, has irredeemably crossed paths with former Vice President Joice Mujuru. Gumbo, who was among the party bigwigs who were absent from ZPF’s inaugural public rally that was…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his ministers should take doctors seriously and stop treating them as if there are enemies of the State, chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health Ruth Labode has said. Reacting to Mugabe’s utterances that doctors should sacrifice their labour notwithstanding the hard fact that medical aid societies are…
HARARE – Despite having been imprisoned and failing to pay bail, anti-President Robert Mugabe protesters who were released from remand prison over the weekend say they will not slacken their protests until the Zanu PF regime gives in to their demands. The released activists languished in remand prison for more than a week as they…
PEOPLE living with HIV and Aids (PLHIV) say the Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) programme that was initiated by Zimbabwe National Network of People living with HIV (ZNNP+) in partnership with Connect is a critical tool in the fight against self-stigma which is rife. During a conference that was held in Harare recently, it was noted…
