HARARE – Zambezi News’ creators Comrade Fatso and Outspoken recently performed live in London at The Power of Hip-Hop event hosted by In Place of War. Magamba Network founders Comrade Fatso and Outspoken have long been passionate hip-hop artistes, but have in recent years become pioneering satirical comedians in Zimbabwe. They attended the two-day event…
HARARE – The National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has resorted to issuing garnishee orders to defaulting employers after the authority recorded a $217 million debtor’s book at the end of 2015, it has emerged. Nssa — which provides social security to retired employees through employee contributions — is paid by employers every month after deducting…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s hasty decision to pay $1,8 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is probably the single most momentous event since the death of the Zimdollar. In an era that has seen calamitous economic events such as record breaking hyperinflation, the disastrous land reform programme that gutted commercial agriculture…
HARARE – Suspended Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe facing five fresh counts of criminal abuse of office. He was freed on $2 000 bail, after surrendering his passport and providing a property worth $250 000 as surety to the court. In addition, he will also report to the police twice…
BULAWAYO – As Zimbabwe continues to teeter on the brink of complete implosion, there are fresh fears among the populace that President Robert Mugabe’s panicking government will respond with even more venom when thousands of women across the country embark on rolling marches from this coming weekend onwards, to press for change. The plans by women,…
HARARE – French ambassador to Zimbabwe Laurent Delahousse denied yesterday State accusations that he backed street protests and a national work boycott which shut businesses and paralysed the public transport system in Harare last week. Delahousse told the Daily News that the accusations were “ridiculous and silly.” France and America were accused by government of…
HARARE – The cash-strapped Zimbabwean government has set itself on a warpath with civil servants after it failed to announce July pay dates yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News after the civil servants unions meeting with the government, Apex Council chairperson Cecilia Alexander said the meeting was inconclusive on the issue of pay dates. Alexander…
MUTARE – Government was forced to impose restrictions on imports of basic goods after discovering a Chinese wheelbarrow arriving at the border at $1,98, a government official has claimed. Industry and Commerce permanent secretary Abigail Shonhiwa told a Buy Zimbabwe traders summit that the some goods were landing at the border at ridiculously low prices that…
HARARE – Zimbabweans urged government to halt the excessive use of force by police after a leaked video of the gruesome beating of protesters by police touched off mass anger. The footage was gleaned from last week’s stay away, and shows police officers battering people under the soles of their feet using baton sticks. One…
HARARE – The 15-member Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (AU) must heed the early warnings from Zimbabwe as public unrest escalates in the crisis-torn country, the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition warned yesterday. The warning comes as Zimbabweans stayed away last Wednesday and foreign banks and most businesses in the capital shut…
