HARARE – The annual rate of inflation for the month of May surged by 0,27 percentage points from 0,48 percent in April, spelling more trouble for the embattled consumer. Inflation refers to the rate at which prices are increasing. Before February this year, the country was in negative inflation territory for 29 months running. It…
HARARE – The late Daily News staffer, Sharon Muguwu, was laid to rest yesterday at her rural home in Chikomba District. Muguwu, 28, succumbed to leukaemia cancer on Tuesday. She was described by relatives, friends and workmates as a humble and hardworking journalist willing to learn. The only daughter and the first child in a…
HARARE – Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro, who is seeking to attach government property to recover over $1, 5 million confiscated by the police, has approached the Constitutional Court seeking confirmation of a High Court order handed down in March invalidating the State Liabilities Act. Government officials have been using the State Liabilities Act to…
HARARE – Government is yet to engage 2 300 teachers it wants to complement the new curriculum, Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora has told the National Assembly. Dokora was answering to a question by Maramba Pfungwe Zanu PF legislator Mabel Kaundikiza on government policy with regard to the shortage of agriculture teachers in…
MUTARE – Unprecedented preparations are being made for President Robert Mugabe’s first ever visit this year to Mutare for a youth interface rally at Sakubva Stadium today. The streets along which the presidential convoy will drive have been cleaned and beautified, in particular the street to the Information Communication Technology Centre which he is to…
HARARE – Government has started repossessing farms from unproductive beneficiaries of the controversial programme to redistribute land seized from white farmers. This comes as vast swathes of land taken from white farmers, mainly in the cropping provinces, lies idle and Zimbabwe has not been able to fully feed itself since the land grabs began. Lands…
HARARE – This week, the State ordered an inquest into the suspicious death of former Cabinet minister and diplomat, Amos Midzi, who was found lifeless at the back of his car two years ago at his Marirangwe farm, a few kilometres outside the capital. His death came after he had been suspended from Zanu PF…
HARARE – Reports that the proposed fortification of basic foods will trigger an estimated 10 percent increase in the price of bread and maize meal — at least according to millers — are enough to shock any right thinking Zimbabwean, as the majority among the country’s over 13 million people are already struggling. As reported…
HARARE – Inflation is anticipated to continue firming on account of the general increase in the prices of goods and services, thus sending shivers down the spines of ordinary Zimbabweans who are still hounded by memories from the 2008 hyperinflationary era, which wiped out their hard-earned savings. Annual headline inflation accelerated from 0,21 percent in…
HARARE – Government has started re-distributing idle chrome mines surrendered by the Kwekwe-based Zimbabwe Iron and Smelting Company (Zimasco) amid indications that illegal miners who had occupied them would be evicted. Deputy Mines minister, Fred Moyo, on Wednesday said his ministry — which is re-allocating about 21 170 hectares (ha) of land that once belonged…
