HARARE – Harare’s potholed roads could be rehabilitated if Harare City Council (HCC) signs an agreement with a Chinese firm Sinohydro Corporation Limited. HCC’s director of works Phillip Pfukwa told the environmental management committee that Sinohydro had already submitted their expression of interest in the rehabilitation of the city’s roads as well as treatment of…
HARARE – Brawling Zanu PF factions are said to be “thoroughly confused” by President Robert Mugabe’s directive that all Mashonaland Central structures stop holding demonstrations and divisive counter meetings against each other. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said Mugabe’s directive — ostensibly meant to give party bigwigs the space to determine the…
HARARE – Tobacco farmers are struggling to get their money at auction floors, as the country’s severe cash crunch continues to worsen. This is despite the government’s recent directive to banks to pay tobacco farmers $1 000 for their initial sales. Frustrated farmers who spoke to the Daily News yesterday confirmed that they had battled…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s consumer price inflation rose by 0,21 percent year-on-year in March from a 0,06 percent increase in February, according to data from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat). This comes after inflation moved into positive territory for the first time in two years in February. “The year-on-year inflation rate (annual percentage change) for…
HARARE – Villagers re-located to a sprawling farm complex in Zvishavane to make way for a platinum mine have said their living conditions are appalling. Scores of families were moved in 2002 from a village adjacent to the Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats) Zimbabwe unit’s Unki Mine field in Shurugwi to Zvishavane, a farm settlement about…
HARARE – A Domboshawa man brutally stabbed his wife with a knife for refusing to move from their Hatcliffe residence to his rural home, a Harare court heard yesterday. Moregood Mverechena, 32, of Mudzimu Village in Chinamora in Domboshawa appeared before Harare regional magistrate Noel Mupeiwa facing attempted murder charges. He was remanded in custody…
HARARE – National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) has demanded that President Robert Mugabe disbands the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) after it failed to censure his ruling Zanu PF over electoral violations in recent by-elections. The lobby group’s head of legal affairs, Douglas Mwonzora, told the Daily News recently that Zec failed the basic test of…
HARARE – Despite President Robert Mugabe’s calls for calm in Zanu PF in response to the several demonstrations held countrywide against embattled party national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, deadly violence erupted in Harare on Saturday as supporters from opposing camps turned on each other and against police. As opposed to the past, this time around,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government has pumped nearly $200 million into the country’s struggling parastatals. This comes as calls have been getting louder for the cash-strapped country to restructure its loss-making parastatals to make them attractive for foreign investment and recapitalisation. Market experts said the opportunity cost of missing revenue from government enterprises was being…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has apparently ordered all Zanu PF structures to stop the current push to give the bullet to the party’s under-fire national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, and his brother Dickson Mafios — who is the party’s chairperson in Mashonaland Central. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday…
