HARARE – Multi-national food and drink company, Nestle Zimbabwe, has embarked on a retrenchment exercise, as part of the company’s “business optimisation activities”. The exercise, which was voluntary, saw more than 20 workers exiting the company, which employs more than a 100. “Despite our initiatives, and largely due to technological and systems upgrades, we carried…
HARARE – Mystery surrounds MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai’s emergency trip to South Africa amid swirling speculation that President Robert Mugabe’s government paid for his chartered medical ambulance. Highly-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that government paid for Tsvangirai’s trip although it was not clear whether it had done so because of his status as…
HARARE – High Court judge Davison Foroma yesterday deferred to Thursday, hearing of an application by the MDC seeking to nullify the proclaimed dates for voter registration, arguing that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is unprepared for the process. In the application, the MDC cited President Robert Mugabe and Zec as respondents. MDC secretary-general Douglas…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe will resume her explosive rallies across the country early next month, in yet another clearest hint that the 2018 polls could be around the corner. Grace revealed during last week’s Zanu PF central committee meeting in Harare that their aim was to sustain the momentum created by the party’s…
HARARE – Government has warned that without action to help farmers adjust to changing climate conditions, it will become impossible to grow some staple food crops in some parts of the country. Maize is most at risk. Environment minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri (pictured) told delegates at the 13th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP13)…
HARARE – The death of mysterious prophet Madzibaba Wimbo’s fourth wife, has sparked security concerns among a rival church group that his sons could use the funeral to snatch away their father who is at the centre of a serious brawl pitting his family against a section of senior church leaders. Wimbo — the head…
HARARE – Zimplats, which is majority controlled by Impala Platinum, has said it has agreed to cede a contentious piece of land that it has for years suffered to retain, after government had sought to take it over. This comes after President Robert Mugabe’s government made a fresh bid in January to compulsorily acquire 27…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says it will repeal a law to force the transfer of foreign-owned firms to local ownership if it wins power in the 2018 elections. MDC shadow Finance minister Tapiwa Mashakada said the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act has eroded investor confidence and created a sceptical international business community that has…
HARARE – People living with disabilities (PLWDs) want the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to put specific registration measures that would allow their constituencies to participate in next year’s crucial elections —starting with the biometric voter registration exercise which got underway last week. Senator representing people living with disabilities, Nyamayabo Mashavakure, said the importance of a…
HARARE – President of the National Council of Zimbabwe Chiefs Fortune Charumbira has asked Rural Development, Protection and Preservation of National Culture and Heritage minister, Abednigo Ncube, to stay away from boundary disputes in Masvingo. Charumbira’s request was contained in a damning letter to the minister, after Ncube waded into an acrimonious boundary dispute in…
