HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF are increasingly getting confident that they can catch the haggling opposition cold by holding an early election. This comes as the opposition is yet to finalise its grand coalition as MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai and the National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru — who are touted…
HARARE – Government is mulling a reduction in water tariffs to encourage power generation at a $5,7 million mini-hydro power plant bankrolled by financial services group, Old Mutual Zimbabwe in Chipinge District, southeast of Zimbabwe. Energy minister Samuel Undenge said he was in talks with his Environment, Water and Climate counterpart to reduce water tariffs…
HARARE – A 19-year-old woman, reportedly raped by lieutenant-colonel Rangarirai Kembo, was turned away by police officers when she first attempted to report the case, a Harare court heard yesterday. This was revealed during the continuation of Kembo’s rape trial yesterday. The victim’s aunt (identification withheld) later assisted her to report the case. Kembo appeared…
HARARE – Gospel musician and businessman, Elias Musakwa yesterday told the court how a neighbour who is accusing him of making death threats once trespassed onto his property and disconnected a sound system during a wedding ceremony. Musakwa was appearing before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko on charges of contravening section 186 of the Criminal Law…
HARARE – Car washing in Karoi’s business district will now attract a fine or imprisonment not exceeding six months following a raft of new by-laws enacted by the town council. Karoi municipality is now charging $20 as a release fee for clamped vehicles anywhere in the council-controlled area. The municipality has also warned car owners…
HARARE – War veterans yesterday accused President Robert Mugabe of “re-writing” history after the 93-year-old stunned Zanu PF supporters on Saturday when he suggested that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa had bad relations with his late predecessor, Simon Muzenda. Mugabe told mourners at the National Heroes Acre, where he was officiating at the burial of Muzenda’s…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) recently moved to slash salaries of its senior managers in a move which it said was in line with its policy of channelling most of its revenue towards service delivery rather than on consumption and salaries. Whether this would be implemented remains to be seen. Five years ago, Cabinet…
HARARE – Our beloved police continue to hog the limelight. Sadly, due to wrong reasons, mostly. This time, it had to take President Robert Mugabe to call the law enforcers to order. And it is not the first time the 93-year-old leader has had to intervene in reigning in errant police behaviour. Speaking at the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe recorded a trade deficit of $1,248 billion for the seven months to July 2017, as imports made up mainly of consumption goods, continued to outstrip exports. According to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, the country imported goods worth $3,118 billion for the period under review, against exports of $1,870 billion. The trade…
HARARE – The total value of transactions processed through the National Payment System (NPS) decreased 33,3 percent to $1,2 billion in the week to August 18, from $1,6 billion in the previous week, as Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) payments slumped. Central bank data for the week under review indicates that RTGS payments were down…
