HARARE – Government is bypassing the State Procurement Board (SPB) in its implementation of the hyped Command Agriculture initiative in violation of the law, which requires that all projects worth US$10 000 or above should go through formal tender to enable it to get the best money can buy. The Daily News can exclusively reveal…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is facing a serious shortage of birth control pills and government is seized with the matter to ensure the situation does not get out of hand. In short supply, particularly in the rural areas, is the Marvelon tablet — a type of hormonal oral contraceptive, commonly known as a “birth control pill…
HARARE – The burial of the late liberation stalwart and musician Dick “Cde Chinx” Chingaira in Harare yesterday was most notable for the absence of senior Zanu PF and government officials. The 61-year-old Cde Chinx — who died in Harare last Friday after battling cancer — was interred at the Glen Forest Memorial Park. His…
BULAWAYO – Government has strained Bulawayo City Council (BCC)’s public finances and undermined an already ailing municipality after a $46 million debt write-off for ratepayers and moves to do something similar ahead of next year’s general elections. Ahead of the 2013 election that gave President Robert Mugabe election triumph, government provided 100 percent debt relief…
HARARE – If there is one thing that football “mad” Zimbabweans cannot talk about with authority and confidence, it is the consistency by their beloved Warriors. There are many times that they have been taken to the “Seventh Heaven” and also, in equal measure, condemned to hell, as the performances of the Zimbabwe senior men’s…
HARARE – The World Bank this week made sad and disheartening projections of Zimbabwe’s moribund economy. The international financier — which forecast Zimbabwe’s economic growth to decline from this year’s 2,7 percent to 0,9 percent next year and plummet further to 0,2 percent in 2019 — painted a gloomy picture of the country’s economic outlook….
HARARE – Zimbabwe expects tourist arrivals to increase in 2017 to 2,2 million, Parliament’s Budget Office has said, helping the recovery of a fragile economy as the country enjoys a third straight record year for tourism boom. Tourism is an important component of the Zimbabwean economy and a key source of hard currency for the…
HARARE – Women legislators across the political divide are demanding that the male-dominated Parliament approve a bill giving women a stronger political voice in this patriarchal country. The women are pushing for amendments to the Electoral Act so that it provides for half of the seats in National Assembly and Senate to be reserved for…
HARARE – The Health and Child Care ministry is facing legal action over $70 million it owes to creditors, ramping up pressure on the indebted ministry whose finances are coming under intense scrutiny. Auditor-General Mildred Chiri urged government to rescue the stuttering ministry but the measure was in danger of sputtering out and dying because…
HARARE – Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede has been dragged to the High Court by a citizen who is being denied permission to renew her Zimbabwean passport because she is a holder of a British passport. Tessa Mary Ball cited Mudede and principal director of Immigration in their official capacities as respondents. According to the country’s…
