HARARE – The stance taken by health authorities to withhold salaries for striking doctors comes as a shock and huge disappointment. This is why. In the recent past, just after taking office after dislodging former president Robert Mugabe, there were reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife, Auxillia, surreptitiously visited two of Zimbabwe’s biggest…
HARARE – Information minister Simon Khaya Moyo was on Wednesday dodgy when asked what government policy is regarding coverage of independent or opposition political parties by the public media during this election campaign season. The minister, who was repeatedly asked the same question by different legislators as he tried to evade it, could not give…
AS THE 2018 general election fast approaches, Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP) challenges the youths in Zimbabwe to rise up and vote in numbers as this crucial vote will help shape their future. The first step is for them to register to vote and show up to vote on Election Day. While young voters notoriously…
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. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – Former minister of State Security Didymus Mutasa has turned down an invitation to join the newly-formed National Patriotic Front (NPF), saying it is nothing but a tribal party doing the bidding for deposed ex-president, Robert Mugabe. A former close ally of Mugabe, the country’s first black Speaker of Parliament told the Daily News…
Temple of Rights, Short Stories By Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri, Harare, Zimbabwe Publishing House, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-7974-71788 (Paperback) 175 pages. HARARE – The Zimbabwean story has never been told as near-exhaustively — touching on the nation’s colonial experiences, through the liberation struggle into independence from white settler rule to the post-colonial challenges, dilemmas and disillusionment —…
HARARE – Deputy Prosecutor-General Florence Ziyambi has been removed from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) due to alleged bad blood between her and her superior, Ray Goba. She has been re-assigned to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), where she will be working as a government lawyer. Permanent secretary in the ministry of…
HARARE – Chinese billionaire investor Zhang Li — worth $3,9 billion according to Forbes — is back in Zimbabwe to pursue the deal to acquire government-run iron processor, Ziscosteel (Zisco). Zhang Li co-chairs real estate developer Guangzhou R&F — which has massive properties in 28 cities, mostly in China — with Hong Kong-based billionaire, Li…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week revealed that Swiss-based food and beverages giant, Nestle, is planning to expand its business in Zimbabwe. He disclosed that the commitment was made by Wan Ling Martello, Nestlé’s chief executive for Asia, Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa, when the two met in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos, Switzerland…
HARARE – Government has reaffirmed its commitment to the new accounting system for the public sector, the accrual based International Public Sector Accounting Standard (IPSAS), to enhance transparency and accountability. Finance and Economic Planning deputy minister Terrence Mukupe, this week told more than 200 delegates at the ongoing stakeholders’ round table in the capital on…
