May 2019

© MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) on Wednesday grilled Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, over his budget surplus merriments which they said are being contradicted by the current state of the economy. Speaking in Parliament Ncube insisted government has been recording budget surplus courtesy of the austerity measures. [GoogleAd] However MPs grilled him questioning the logic…

© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday officially launched the State Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz), which he says will eliminate corruption from the country’s procurement processes. Praz, which was formed last year as a replacement for the State Procurement Board, came with new procurement procedures governing the awarding of tenders.  [GoogleAd Under the new procedures,…

© ZIMBABWE Human Rights (ZHR) NGO Forum has called on government to stop criminalising civil society organisations (CSOs) following complains by rights defenders that there is an increase of surveillance, irregular office visits and interruption of their meetings. [GoogleAd] This also comes barely a week after Amnesty International also called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government…

© FIVE police officers who allegedly under declared money seized from foreign currency dealers appeared in court yesterday charged with criminal abuse of office. The police officers, who are all stationed at Criminal Investigations Department’s Theft from Car (TFC) section allegedly pocketed more than US$14 000 after they raided US$200 000 from the traders. [GoogleAd]…

© JAILED former Zanu PF legislator Munyaradzi Kereke, pictured, will remain in prison after the High Court on Wednesday threw out his appeal against a 14-year jail term for raping his then 11-year-old relative at gunpoint. Kereke, who was jailed in 2016 after a protracted litigation which was eventually settled through private prosecution, told the…

© GOVERNMENT has blamed the lack of public confidence in the system as well as the existence of unscrupulous dealers for the fuel current shortages. Energy minister Fortune Chasi and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya while under grilling by the Energy and Power Development parliamentary portfolio committee yesterday blamed stakeholders in the downstream fuel value…