HARARE – Municipality of Kariba has advised its business community to renew their 2018 operating licences or risk closure. This comes as the resort town’s local authority had earlier warned businesses in December last year to approach the council offices and pay up. “Your current business licence expires on or before December 31, 2017. To…
HARARE – Zanu PF officials and traditional leaders who are allegedly demanding voter registration slips from prospective voters during the ongoing biometric voter registration (BVR) must be arrested, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. This comes after Glen View North MDC MP Fani Munengami claimed that Zanu PF legislators were at the forefront of forcing…
HARARE – Harare businessman Benjamin Mukandi reportedly lost $42 250 after engaging two men to purchase a Land Cruiser from South Africa on his behalf. Allan Molai, 43, of Ashbury Properties (Pvt) Ltd appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa charged with defrauding Mukandi. He was released on $400 bail and ordered to continue residing at…
HARARE – There is confusion in government over the status of civil servants after President Emmerson Mnangagwa removed them from the Labour ministry to fall under his office, albeit without consulting them. Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday told Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU) representatives…
HARARE – Government must get rid of the perennial loss-making Grain Marketing Board (GMB) because it was bleeding the fiscus, analysts said yesterday. This comes amid shocking revelations in Parliament on Tuesday that the crumbling State grain utility posted a mortifying loss of over $208 million last year on the back of a Command Agriculture…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave his clearest hint that he would appoint another female as the new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson following Rita Makarau’s surprise resignation, with three female judges being tipped for the high-pressure job, the Daily News can report. At pool of three stellar female candidates are being bandied around, cutting…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has refused to apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres saying the measures he has put in place to deal with the emotive issue must be allowed to run their course. Mnangagwa was taken to task during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, on how Zimbabwe was…
HARARE – Veterans of the country’s liberation struggle are making overtures to MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to work with President Emmerson Mnangagwa through a yet to-be-tabled arrangement that might result in the postponement of general elections, the Daily News can report. Although Mnangagwa has announced that the country would go to elections no later than…
HARARE – Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu — who has previously served in the Mines and Mining Development portfolio — could soon be on the radar of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) following Core Mining and Minerals (Private) Limited director Lovemore Kurotwi’s letter to the anti-graft body requesting that it investigates him over corruption. In…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has been hauled to the coals for dismissing corruption allegations being levelled against Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu without giving the politician the opportunity to clear his name. Responding to questions in the National Assembly last week, Chinamasa said the accusations were unfounded, saying Mpofu accumulated much of his…
