March 2019

Parliament yesterday humiliated the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) executives by turning them away after coming “ill-prepared” for its meeting with the portfolio committee on Agriculture amid corruption allegations. The Justice Mayor Wadyajena-chaired committee had asked the Tobacco Association of Zimbabwe (Taz) and Boka Tobacco Auction Floors to give evidence on their preparedness for the…

Musha Mukadzi Housing Cooperative has dismissed suggestions that it might not have paid for the land on which it developed and sold 187 stands in Hobhouse high density suburb. Given Muchinguri, an official, told the Daily News that they had settled the full $176 000 early last year before the Forensic Investigation Audit into the local authority’s…

Proceedings in ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira’s graft case have been stayed by the High Court. This was after Mandiwanzira lodged an appeal for review of a ruling in which his application for exception was thrown out by Harare regional magistrate Elijah Makomo. [GoogleAd] High Court judge Esther Muremba granted the stay of proceedings in the lower…

Harare’s Warren Park residents were treated to a Health and Wellness Day at an event held at Magamba Hall that drew partners from the government, health departments and various non-governmental organisations. Talia Women’s Network director Saliwe Zakariya said this had become routine for the organisation to bring International Women’s Day celebrations to Warren Park where they…

Harare City Council has set a target of increasing service delivery to 75 percent by 2020, town clerk Hosiah Chisango said at the city’s service delivery benchmark workshop yesterday.  “As a city we are particularly focused on ensuring that we provide first class service delivery and this is clearly articulated in our goals. We want to…

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has denied that the central bank is engaging in any quasi fiscal activities and accused parliamentarians of not understanding what it entails. Mangudya said this while appearing before the Public Accounts and Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committees on Monday. He was responding to a question posed by…

AN ex-police boss has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly using the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) account to get his personal car serviced and repaired. Robert Tendero Masukusa, 47, appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo charged with three counts of fraud. Masukusa was the chief staff officer Transport and Logistics responsible for overseeing all…

Senior doctors have partially downed tools saying they will be only dealing with emergencies until government addresses the dire situation in the country’s public hospitals. [GoogleAd] The doctors are protesting the severe shortages of pharmaceutical drugs and equipment at public hospitals. In a letter addressed to the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals Group CEO from the…

Zimbawe ICT bosses are pulling out all the stops to use a networking event for tech entrepreneurs and investors here to market its tourist hotspot, Victoria Falls, in a bid to boost the number of visitors. [GoogleAd] From Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete to ICT minister Kazembe Kazembe, the top…