HARARE – As rightly predicted by the Daily News on September 11 that President Robert Mugabe doesn’t care about anyone else or the economy except for his own well-being, the increasingly frail nonagenarian has overturned a decision to scrap bonuses by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa. Mugabe’s decision is not only shocking but goes to prove…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has said it is failing to service its payment obligations to South Africa’s Eskom and Mozambique’s Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) due to a $1 billion debt the firm is owed by consumers. ZETDC managing director Julian Chinembiri yesterday said the State-owned institution, which is…
HARARE – Millions of Zimbabweans who are counting on pension benefits to fund their retirements risk being severely disappointed amid indications of rising pension fund defaults. A recent report by the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) revealed that in the six months to June this year, self-administered funds recorded contributions amounting to $448 million albeit…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) is concerned by utterances attributed to senior government officials in the media insinuating that there will be no more electoral reforms before the 2018 harmonised elections. The utterances come against a background of numerous calls by Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and 2013 regional observer groups for the full alignment…
HARARE – Angry opposition parties have vowed to defy “with all we have” the government’s new ban on demonstrations in Harare, setting the stage for more bloody encounters between panicking authorities and fed up citizens who are agitating for change in the country. At the same time, the 18 opposition parties who are coalescing under…
BULAWAYO – People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general Gorden Moyo says opposition parties’ mooted grand coalition stands a chance of annihilating President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF in the 2018 election if it fields one candidate. Opposition political parties are working on creating an electoral pact that will ultimately lead to the formation of a grand…
HARARE – Restive civil servants who meet government today to discuss its new measures which include retrenching 25 000 workers, say they are prepared to accept its position if it cuts ministries and off-load luxury cars being driven by the ministers. Civil servants umbrella body — the Apex Council — meets with government to discuss…
HARARE – Local press freedom and free expression lobby group — the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe chapter — is seeking a meeting with police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri over treatment of journalists by the law enforcement agents during demonstrations. The comes as Misa Zimbabwe is worried by the growing incidents of the number…
HARARE – National Vendors Union leader Sten Zvorwadza yesterday refuted claims that he threatened to burn Rainbow Towers during a demonstration against Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s prolonged hotel stay. Zvorwadza denied charges of threats to commit malicious damage to property when he appeared before Harare magistrate Tendai Rusinahama. Zvorwadza’s lawyer Marufu Mandevere argued that his…
HARARE – People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Tendai Biti has said he will make a fresh court application to compel the President Robert Mugabe-led government to implement devolution of power in accordance with the dictates of the Constitution. Addressing members of his party at the organisation’s first anniversary in Bulawayo last weekend, Biti said the…
