HARARE – Zimbabwe’s power imports for the first quarter of 2017 went up by about 10 percent as local production slumped 23 percent, a development that local energy experts anticipate to result in load shedding if not properly managed. With a local demand of about 1 400 Megawatts (MW), the country — which has been…
HARARE – Government splurged more than $14 million on foreign and domestic travel in the first three months of the year. Figures gleaned from the Consolidated Revenue Fund indicate that while President Robert Mugabe’s administration had budgeted $5 194 000 in travel, it overshoot the budget, spending $12 959 258 on foreign trips in the…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has set conditions for his return to the former liberation movement including demanding an apology for the manner in which he was hounded out at the height of the party’s infamous purges in 2014. Mutasa, 82 next week, was jettisoned from the fractious Zanu PF…
HARARE – Despite angling to mend relations with President Robert Mugabe and possibly return to Zanu PF, Didymus Mutasa still has a lot to say about the mooted grand coalition. The veteran Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elder has, not for the first time, put his full weight behind MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai in his bid…
HARARE – A Mutare businessman who has been battling to recover his money that was illegally taken by police in 2008 has stepped up his fight to have Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo arrested. Tendai Mangwiro on Monday wrote to the Sherriff and registrar seeking to have Chombo seized for ignoring the court orders compelling…
HARARE – Outspoken businessman-cum politician Energy Mutodi is eyeing the Bikita South National Assembly seat after the ruling Zanu PF party transferred him from Mashonaland East to Masvingo with effect from June 29. Mutodi had been censured following disciplinary proceedings against him by the Mashonaland East province on a list of charges including allegations of…
HARARE – Three more Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) executives appeared in court yesterday facing criminal abuse of duty charges related to the embezzlement of $300 000. Zinara accountant Stephen Matute, regional engineer Givemore Tendai Kufa and director Human Resources management Precious Murove appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. The trio is jointly charged with…
FAMILIES which were forcibly relocated to Arda-Transau from the diamond-rich Marange fields are bitter over the drastic deterioration of their children’s education standards. Nearly a quarter of the pupils at Chirasika Primary School, which caters for the settlement, are learning under inhumane conditions. The pupils, in excess of 1 300, cannot be accommodated in the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will start registering voters for general elections in October, officials have said, in the first concrete step ahead of a crucial vote expected to take place next year. Voter registration will start from October and end in March 2018, officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) told civil society groups. In addition…
HARARE – Opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP) president Tendai Biti will next week deliver the second edition of the State of the Economy Address (SEA) in Harare. It’s an attempt by the former Finance minister to “assist in finding a lasting solution to the unpalatable suffering of the Zimbabwean people”. This comes as the economy…
