HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s move to suspend civil servants’ bonuses and trim the bloated public service was “long overdue”, economists have said. In his belated 2016 mid-term fiscal review — traditionally presented in July — the Treasury chief announced the retrenchment of government workers and suspension of civil servants’ bonuses for two years…
HARARE – Vocal Zanu PF member-cum-businessman and musician, Energy Mutodi, says President Robert Mugabe is now surrounded by “praise-singers and crooks” who are abusing his advanced age to cause chaos in the country. Pulling no punches, the Zanu PF Mashonaland East provincial executive member blamed these “praise-singers” who he declined to name in an interview…
HARARE – Parliament is set to conduct public consultations this week to gather citizens’ views ahead of the 2017 national budget. The countrywide stakeholder meetings will be convened by the August House’s three portfolio committees — Finance and Economic Development, Mines and Energy and Lands, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development.. In a schedule, Parliament’s public…
HARARE – Outspoken Zanu PF provincial executive member for Mashonaland East, Energy Mutodi, says President Robert Mugabe’s advanced age and his seemingly lack of appetite to resolve the succession issue are contributing to the country’s growing civil unrest. Here he speaks with Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki and below are the Excerpts of the interview….
HARARE – In yesterday’s edition of the Daily News on Sunday, we carried a story in which we quoted Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo slamming institutions that confer dubious degrees, as well as beneficiaries of the same. The minister, in our opinion, was spot-on. The country is now flooded with institutions that confer…
HARARE – Most christians, must be much more familiar with the biblical story of how John the Baptist was beheaded at the vengeful request of Herod’s step-daughter — Salome — and her mother. The story has a lot of political undertones in that, John was a mere man — held in high regard by the…
HARARE – Troubled coal miner, Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL), is set to retrench over 1 000 employees and dispose of its non-core assets in an effort to streamline operations, a Cabinet minister said. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa last week announced that government — with a 37 percent shareholding in HCCL — was implementing various…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) will, with effect from October 1, 2016, introduce a 10 percent withholding Value Added Tax (Vat) on output tax charged by suppliers of goods and services, it has emerged. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa last week announced the development in his mid-term fiscal review statement saying it was aimed…
HARARE – When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money, By Philip Haslam with Russell Lamberti; Cape Town, Portfolio Penguin, 2014. 140 pages ISBN: 978-0-14-353918-6 (Print) 978-0-14-353163-0 (ePub) LATELY, Zimbabwe has been plagued by a series of protests, with citizens complaining over the deepening…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi and several international artistes will hold workshops for upcoming artistes during the 2016 edition of Musica which will run in Harare from October 2 to 8 at several venues. Musica, which is holding its ninth edition this year, is the initiative of the Italian Embassy in Harare which…
