HARARE – The Insurance and Pensions Commission is targeting insurance penetration to reach seven percent by 2022 compared to the current 4,7 percent on the back of an anticipated economic growth. Zimbabwe remains in top five in the region in terms of insurance penetration. Paul Nyakazeya interviewed Glenrand MIB Zimbabwe chief executive officer Takura Dzimwasha…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s “new dispensation” rhetoric in Zimbabwe has been exposed as just a small public relations stunt to sanitise the 2018 post-military intervention harmonised elections, which have been subjected to a rigging plot. Do not even imagine me throwing another bogeyman story into your crib. With elections less than two weeks away,…
HARARE – Former Energy and Power Development minister Samuel Undenge was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of criminal abuse of office. His sentencing marked the first high-profile conviction since the coming in of the so-called new dispensation under President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Undenge, who is among an illustrious list…
HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and his colleague-turned-political rival, Thokozani Khupe, are accusing and counter-accusing each other of working with the ruling Zanu PF. This comes as the courts are yet to determine which faction of the MDC is the bona-fide owner of the party trademark after Chamisa lodged an application at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections look set to end in a presidential run-off pitting Zanu PF leader and current President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, of the MDC Alliance. A survey by Afrobarometer yesterday, exactly 10 days before the much-awaited crunch July 30 elections, shows Mnangagwa getting 40 percent of the vote,…
HARARE – In a sentence that could serve as a deterrent to would-be offenders, four villagers have been slapped with a total of 36 years — each serving nine years’ imprisonment — after they were found guilty of hunting a specially protected animal. Masvingo magistrate Peter Madiba handed down the sentence after a full trial…
BULAWAYO – Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa will, for the first time, appear at an MDC Alliance rally to be addressed by party president Nelson Chamisa today. The rally has been set for White City Stadium, the venue of last month’s ugly incident where a bomb blast killed two people, while injuring several others. Dabengwa pulled…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party is being accused of hijacking the distribution of food aid and farming inputs —to make sure opposition members in Mashonaland East’s Uzumba constituency do not access them. Supporters of the MDC Alliance claimed that having hijacked the programme, Zanu PF officials were withholding food handouts and farming inputs…
HARARE – After spending more than 10 years without receiving municipal water, residents of Mabvuku and Tafara heaved a sigh of relief last weekend when the Harare City Council (HCC) resumed pumping the resource to their homes. The two high density suburbs had, for more than a decade, been hard hit by a water crisis,…
HARARE – Harare City Council has begun installing high mast lighting or tower lights in 11 high and medium density suburbs. Council spokesperson Michael Chideme said the idea is to have a safe and well-lit city for the residents to enjoy. The tower lights come as the city was blasted during a 100-day review for…
