HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been asked to regularise Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema’s appointment to avert a constitutional crisis as he now has more non-constituency MPs appointed as ministers, which is against the governance charter. This was raised by MDC MP for Mutare Central Innocent Gonese, who said that the executive was improperly…
HARARE – Local Government minister July Moyo was yesterday grilled in Parliament over government’s engagement of a company owned by former first lady Grace Mugabe as debt collectors in several local authorities. Opposition MDC MP Job Sikhala set the ball rolling yesterday during the questions without notice session in the National Assembly, questioning the legality…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says it has noted with concern that despite claiming to be a government of the people, the new administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa is treating people in the informal sector with heavy-handedness reminiscent of the Robert Mugabe era. In a statement, ZCTU said it is appalled…
HARARE – Craft Properties has partnered with an America-based company to establish $1,8 billion mega solar projects across the country. Craft Properties founder and chief executive officer Kudakwashe Taruberekera said the partnership comes after officials from his company had attended various meetings in Europe and America where they marketed business opportunities in various sectors in…
HARARE – Norton Town Council (NTC) has fined three households for illegally connecting water to their residence. Mayor Sylvester Gumisirayi said the illegal connections in Culfa ward 10, which were identified following a tip-off, deprived other residents of the precious liquid. “These illegal connections resulted in other households failing to receive water when water was…
HARARE – Chikukwa community in Chimanimani effected a citizen’s arrest on a 23-year-old man who was in possession of a heart, sex organs and eyes of his 60-year-old murder victim. Victor Dinga was arrested by villagers who were led by Aaron Mashava, a shop owner and his brother-in-law after he confided in him of the…
MUTARE – Zanu PF’s politicisation of farming inputs has hit a new low as the party is now demanding that opposition supporters who benefited from the Presidential Inputs Scheme return them. MDC activists from Chipatarongo Village in Nyanga North Ward 6 were ordered to return the inputs at a meeting that was addressed by the…
HARARE – Opposition MDC MP for Mutasa Central Trevor Saruwaka has pulled the rag from under politicians who flush money to entice voters by engaging experts to clarify roles of elected officials in the country’s parliamentary democracy. Saruwaka held the first workshop at Watsomba Business Centre where he engaged Southern Africa Parliamentary Support Trust (SAPST)…
HARARE – The price of cooking oil has shot up by more than 20 percent, adding to the cost-push inflationary pressures triggered by the recent wave of price adjustments. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Prospects for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa now hang by the thread in spite of attempts by western power brokers to get them to smoke a peace pipe, the Daily News can report. Mnangagwa is presently under pressure to strike a deal with Chamisa to end political…
