© THE Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC), which recently completed the first phase of the audit involving more than 18 000 farmers, has unearthed gross underfunding of the agricultural sector and is now pushing for the establishment of a Land and Agricultural Bank to facilitate funding for resettled farmers. [GoogleAd It is also recommending an integrated…
© ON THE back of an excellent year of Isuzu bakkie sales in Zimbabwe, Industry and Commerce minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu this week visited Isuzu’s production facility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [GoogleAd] He is the first Zimbabwean dignitary to visit Isuzu Motors South Africa’s production facility in Struandale since it’s opening last year. As…
© EXILED former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri is now settling a claim in which he was dragged to the High Court for allegedly impounding five cars and a house from a Harare businessman. [GoogleAd] Bigboy Pachirera had listed Chihuri, his wife Isabel and their company Kidsdale Enterprises as respondents to his claim of compensation and…
© I NEVER met my maternal grandfather. But I hear he died a cruel death. He used to work in Plumtree, not far from the border with Botswana, and would go back home on weekends to the dusty village of Tjehanga, deep in rural Plumtree. [GoogleAd] He found them waiting for him one afternoon when…
© THE Local Government ministry has withdrawn residential stands issued to MPs who were key members of the ‘G40’ political faction, the target of 2017 coup by the military. All legislators of the eighth Parliament were given stands by government. But the Local Government ministry cancelled offer letters given to G40 kingpins Jeppy Jaboon, Shadreck…
© A GROUP of 343 Chinese business and leisure tourists is expected in the country today under the “Tour Africa – New Horizon” project aimed at attracting Chinese visitors to Africa. The group arrives in Zimbabwe after touring Djibouti and Tanzania. [GoogleAd] In an effort to bolster the growing tourism industry, the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority…
© AN elderly couple that was brutally assaulted by police officers because they had not run away during a crackdown on kombi touts at Machipisa bus terminus have demanded $200 000 damages. Joseph Tapiwa Nyamayedenga, 57, and Chiedza Nyamayedenga, 42, cited police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema as respondents. [GoogleAd] The…
© THE State said yesterday that it has asked Interpol to issue a red notice — asking police worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi pending extradition — on accusations of misappropriating funds meant for the 2013 United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNTWO) General Assembly. [GoogleAd] Mzembi is jointly charged…
© FORMER permanent secretary in the Mines ministry Francis Pedzana Gudyanga — accused of defrauding the State of more than $1,6 million — has notified the court that he wants to have his case heard in camera. Through his lawyer Norman Mugiya, Gudyanga said he wants to divulge classified information which he cannot reveal in…
© LESS than 10 legislators contributed to the debate on the Companies and Other Business Entities Bill in the 270-member National Assembly. This was revealed by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi. “This Bill is very technical and this has been buttressed by the number of people that have debated on the Bill,”…
