HARARE – The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has secured a $5 million loan facility targeted at resuscitating the depressed bread-making industry. Tafadzwa Musarara, the association’s chairperson, told the Daily News that the bailout package will capacitate players — wheat farmers, millers and bakers — across the value chain, in order to boost supply…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition party along with rights groups have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of bribing chiefs with cars in exchange for votes. This comes after Mnangagwa splurged a fortune on 52 brand new double cab cars for traditional leaders, in a move that has been roundly condemned as “sickening vote-buying” by Zanu PF…
HARARE – The Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda recently called on government to increase budget allocations for the ministry of Health and Child Care and Parliament to avoid crippling their operations. In the case of the ministry of Health, it was allocated $400 million — representing 7,7 percent of the $5,1 billion National…
Dear first lady, It is with tremendous obligation that I have been moved to publish this open letter to you since your husband duly assumed office when he took the oath of office as President at midday on a sunny Friday on November 24 in Harare. As a well known aphorism goes, “behind every successful…
HARARE – Mines minister Winstone Chitando said Shabanie Mashava Mine (SMM) will not be resuming operations due to lack of capital and massive water bodies that have clogged the mine. “There is currently some activity happening in the area which is two-fold,” he told legislators in the National Assembly last week. “Firstly…there is in progress…
HARARE – Foreign currency shortages are expected to persist throughout this year despite promising economic turnaround following the inauguration of Emmerson Mnangagwa as Zimbabwe’s President late last year. Market experts, Equity Axis, said local companies should brace for further dire shortages in 2018 and find innovative ways to remain profitable. [Adz] Statistics from the Reserve…
HARARE – Philanthropist Nehemiah Chipato has done it yet again with a 39-page publication titled Time Prescriptions: Joel 2: 25 & 28 whose thrust is to show how God promises to restore years which have been eaten. The ability to exercise natural senses determines how to be appropriate in the aftermath when God restores time…
HARARE – Musician Last “Tambaoga” Chiyangwa, popular for his political jingle Rambai Makashinga released during the height of the controversial land grab programme, is set to perform in Harare tonight at the weekly Jam Session at the City Sports Bar. The once fierce former president Robert Mugabe bootlicker is set to share the stage with…
HARARE – Defender Partson Jaure is reportedly to be on his way out of Castle Lager Premiership side Ngezi Platinum Stars to join Zambia’s Buildcon. Jaure, who joined Ngezi Platinum in July 2016, after partying ways with South African side University of Pretoria is said to have already agreed terms with Buildcon including a $12…
HARARE – Dynamos, eager to arrest last year’s disappointment of missing out on the championship, are scheduled to get back to serious business today when they re-group to begin preparations for the 2018 Castle Lager Premiership season. The Glamour Boys fought an intriguing battle for the title last year with eventual winners FC Platinum in…
