HARARE – THE Shop Licences Act has been identified as one of the Acts which needs to be revised under the programme of ease of doing business, Parliament heard this week. Legislators said the Shop Licences Act was crafted in 1976 and the Act was last amended in 1988. They said the Act is riddled…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is failing to locate former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri, who has twice failed to appear before Parliament, the Daily News can report. Read full story in today’s paper. [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu yesterday opened up for the first time on the source of his wealth, claiming he earned all that he has through hard work. Mpofu has been rumoured to be among the richest in Zimbabwe, if not the sub-region, with much of his wealth concentrated in real estate. In…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has released details about his family that seem to suggest that he had children with First Lady Auxillia when he was still married to his first wife, Jayne, who died in 2002. Mnangagwa, who became president in November after a soft military coup triggered by his sacking from Zanu PF…
HARARE – Health minister David Parirenyatwa has acknowledged that health workers in Zimbabwe are underpaid adding that the current impasse between government and doctors is now being handled by “higher offices.” Parirenyatwa told the Senate yesterday that Zimbabwe needs to prioritise the health sector. “I really think that our health workers are underpaid, we need…
HARARE – Zanu PF yesterday announced rules governing its primary elections giving a special waiver on war veterans, and also threatening to expel any candidates who will try to campaign alone without their rivals within the party. Making the announcement after an extraordinary politburo meeting in Harare that was chaired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zanu…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is now too old to remember anything and government is no longer taking his statements seriously, his successor and long time ally President Emmerson Mnangagwa told guests in Rwanda on Wednesday. Mnangagwa came to power through a military-assisted takeover of government that resulted in the fall of Mugabe and the…
BULAWAYO – Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has said it is not going into an alliance with Thokozani Khupe’s MDC faction. This comes after a Khupe rally held at Amphitheatre here over the weekend, where national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe introduced members of Mthwakazi, together with the Joice Mujuru-led PRC and Ansa led by Moses Mzila…
HARARE – Local Government minister July Moyo has for the first time opened up on the Harare City Council (HCC) town clerk issue, saying he is waiting for council’s reaction to the Local Government Board (LGB) that they could not appoint a substantive incumbent from the list that they submitted. HCC had forwarded the names…
HARARE – Masvingo residents are threatening to boycott paying a proposed road levy, claiming the city council imposed it on them. Masvingo United Residents and Ratepayers Alliance (Murra) spokesperson Godfrey Mtimba said the road levy resolution was passed in consultation with ratepayers. Masvingo resolved during a full council meeting that every resident will be charged…
