HARARE – Government is moving ahead to impose a compulsory National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), despite resistance by workers and employers. The scheme, to be run by tax collector National Social Security Authority (Nssa), will see money being deducted from the formally employed salaries, in addition to the Aids Levy. Labour ministry secretary Ngoni Masoka…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elders — Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa — have said they will not fight former ally Joice Mujuru over the party’s name but co-exist as separate political entities using the same name. Gumbo told the Daily News yesterday that while he and Mutasa were the founders and custodians of…
HARARE – The Sunningdale man, Elton Nyamudahondo, accused of printing and supplying fake $5 bond notes was granted bail by a Harare court yesterday. The 33-year-old — who allegedly produced $600-plus of the counterfeit currency — was charged with possession of articles for criminal use when he appeared before Harare magistrate Tilda Mazhande. He was…
HARARE – It is not a secret that our health sector is on the deathbed, doctors are on strike and nurses have also issued a warning that they will follow suit if their working conditions are not improved. Nothing really seems to be working in the critical sector, a situation that should ring alarm bells…
EDITOR — The resurgence of xenophobic attacks in neighbouring South Africa is quite disturbing. We point out to the fact that part of progress in South Africa was a result of African efforts through the support of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), especially during the apartheid era. The current trend…
HARARE – Barclays Bank Zimbabwe (BBZ) said it has facilitated deals worth over $300 million in various sectors of the economy. The bank’s managing director, George Guvamatanga, yesterday said the financial institution had participated as funders or advisors in six key transactions of national relevance last year. “We facilitated over $257 million in terms of…
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s leading agricultural concerns, Ariston, says it is planning to give its employees a 20 percent ownership stake in the company. Ariston’s company secretary Rufaro Chinamo yesterday said the agriculture-focused firm is currently seeking shareholder approval to establish an employee share ownership trust (Esot) to benefit its workers. If approved, Ariston…
HARARE – One of the highlights during the recent visit by Fifa president Gianni Infantino was the exchange of gifts between him and President Robert Mugabe. Infantino, who was in the country at the invitation of Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa for his 58th birthday and Cosafa election victory celebrations, paid a courtesy call at State…
HARARE – South Africa-based award-winning gospel artiste Togarepi Chivaviro is set to release a new studio album called Maranatha on April 11, in which he collaborates with several other musicians. Maranatha was first released as a single late last year to test the waters and he collaborated with musicians Munyaradzi Munodawafa, Leonard Zhakata, Mathias Mhere,…
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s biggest sculpture gardens, Tengenenge Sculpture Community in Guruve is feeling the effects of the underperforming economy as few people are visiting the facility to buy their products. Housing more than 120 stone sculptors on a single farmland, hundreds of finished sculptures are spread on vast display stands that any collector…
