MUTARE City Council (MCC) is disputing findings of a forensic report into its land management, which seem to suggest impropriety on the part of the city fathers. Through its lawyers, Bere Brothers Legal Practitioners, MCC told the Daily News on Sunday that there was no need to rush into conclusions since the findings of the…
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation has risen to a 10-year high since hyperinflation, but month-on-month prices are beginning to drop as monetary reforms aimed at combating inflation, addressing foreign currency shortages and price distortions take hold, with little pressure on the Central Bank to tighten policy further. [GoogleAd] The year-on-year inflation rate shot up to 59,4…
Government has called on millers to help wheat farmers secure seed, fertiliser and farming machinery for the forthcoming cropping season to boost plantings of the cereal to cover a yawning deficit that is forcing government to use up to $100m to import. This comes as the cash-strapped government has failed to pay for 55 000…
Retailers have hiked petrol and diesel prices by up to 8 cents per litre, adding to the burden of consumers dealing with record prices and amid rising political pressure on the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government. [GoogleAd] The marginal increase comes just two months after government more than doubled the cost of petrol to $3,31 a litre…
ZIMBABWE is ranked amongst the most corrupt nations in the world. It is often said that the well-heeled who are corrupt have their way of escaping the long arm of the law, hence it is essentially the “small fish” that go to prison. [GoogleAd] But once in prison, correctional employees are expected to turn offenders…
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was swept away through a popular coup, the world celebrated the departure of an “evil dictator”. Many hoped for a fresh start but that dream remains elusive for victims of Gukurahundi, a dark phase in the country’s history when an estimated 20 000 people were killed. So far President Emmerson…
LIKE most 12-year-old girls of her age, Primrose Moyo — who has pale skin due to a pigment disorder that barely protects the skin from the sun’s radiation — used to enjoy playing outside with her friends even when the sun was blazing hot. The bubbly Primrose, who is living with albinism, and her mates,…
ZIMBABWE’s financial meltdown has brought the construction of the Egodini Mall — set to be the biggest public transport terminus boasting a retail section and parking bays in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo — to a screeching halt. The project, touted as a massive development, which, if completed, would change the face of the city…
NZALA Milimo was born in Victoria Falls in 1974 and did her primary and secondary education at public schools in the resort town’s ghetto townships. But unlike the thousands of well-heeled foreign visitors who flock to the world famous Victoria Falls — a famous “honeymoon” destination and a place where international elites have vacationed and…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa used ‘‘Zimbabwe is open for business’’ the way US president Donald Trump used make America great again. Now, economic signals in Zimbabwe are pointing in the wrong direction. Inflation is above 50 percent. To try to get things on track, the country launched a new currency to replace its old cash system…
