HARARE – Increasing value-added tax (Vat) on all meat products, including edible meat offals and cereals, is a draconian measure that will sharply hike the price of the basic commodities for hard-pressed consumers and slash consumption, rather than generate the extra income Zimbabwe is seeking, top economists warned yesterday. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa on Wednesday…
HARARE – Outspoken opposition MP Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has presented a totem branded T-shirt as a gift to Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa for making sanitary wear affordable. It is, perhaps, the most visible symbol of the thawing relations between the two, and a bizarre gift presented to the Treasury chief. The MDC Matabeleland South legislator also…
HARARE – It is the signature sound of a bustling market: vendors shouting about their wares to passersby while thousands of flies buzz in a huge wooden compartment containing meat of all kinds. Up to 70 percent of traders in the Chigovanyika Shopping Complex in St Mary’s suburb depend on pitching to shift perishable goods…
HARARE – Terrence Chikumbirike spends the better part of his day walking around Harare’s suburbs and the city centre collecting polyethylene terephthalate or PET plastic containers for a living. With no educational qualifications, he earns almost $6 daily from his labour. Chikumbirike is part of the thousands of people around Harare who are directly assisting in…
HARARE – Rampant corruption in food aid is worsening the suffering of Zimbabweans hit by drought, a rights group has warned, with Zanu PF politicians allegedly sabotaging food distribution and giving it out where it was not needed to win support. Nearly five million Zimbabweans require food assistance in an El Nino-induced drought that has…
HARARE – “Before my husband was even buried, my brother-in-law was making moves (to take over my property)…,” a widow living in a homestead outside Bulawayo with her three children told me, “I only realised about three weeks later that I was being left out.” She is not alone in this experience. We interviewed more…
HARARE – Two pastors are in Harare’s Remand Prison, not necessarily on religious grounds but political. Did I just say political! Yes I did. It is almost a taboo and surreal but that’s what it is. Clergymen Evan Mawarire and Patrick Mugadza are behind bars on frivolous charges against the State. Even though I have…
HARARE – Daily News on Sunday entertainment writer Vasco Chaya talks to Sexy Angels leader and pole dancer Beverly Sibanda, popularly known as Bev, at her Harare apartment. Find below excerpts of the interview. Q: Reports suggest you are two months pregnant after an affair with Dherira singer, Kudzai Andrew Ngwenya — better known as…
HARARE – Fans have been clamouring for a new record from Olivia Charamba, popularly known as Mai Charamba, for so long that even a new riff will send them in a frenzy. The multi-award winning Zimbabwean gospel artiste has been working on new material recently, and said she hoped to have it out by midyear,…
HARARE – Tourism minister Walter Mzembi said government expects the newly-commissioned Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries’ Prayer Mountain to draw thousands of tourists and improve the country’s precarious foreign currency situation. PHD’s leader is said to be attracting 1 800 international tourists per day who flock to his shrine for spiritual guidance. Speaking at…
