© THE Zanu PF Youth League has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing from the faux pas of those who led the organ in the sunset days of former president Robert Mugabe. [GoogleAd] In the terminal days of the fallen despot’s regime, the organ had sunk into a hired gun at the beck and call of…
© CONSUMERS were yesterday keeping their fingers crossed after prices for most basic commodities stagnated as traders, including foreign currency (forex) dealers, digested the impact of currency reforms introduced by government. [GoogleAd] On Monday, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019 which discontinued usage of the multi-currency regime. Immediately, the Zimbabwe dollar…
© FORMER vice president (VP) Phelekezela Mphoko, pictured, is now likely to get his terminal benefits, more than a year after he was booted out of government. [GoogleAd] Mphoko assumed the VP post in 2014 and lost his job in November 2017 following a military takeover — two years short of a full five-year term. The…
© HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has threatened to name and shame people who owe the city large sums of money in rates. In an interview with the Daily News, Gomba said there are people, some prominent ones, who have not paid anything to the city since the 2013 debt write-off. [GoogleAd] The name and shame come…
© President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has been applauded for working fervently to raise awareness about mental health and ensuring that those at-risk for mental illnesses and related disorders, especially in rural areas receive proper, timely and effective treatment, even though more needs to be done, rights doctors have said. [GoogleAd] This comes as mental health disorders…
© Zanu PF affiliated youth groups, dissatisfied with the reaction to the ruling party’s youth wing to go public with claims of corruption against party bigwigs, bureaucrats and business people, yesterday requested the issue of a arrest warrant against the corruption-accused. [GoogleAd] This comes after Zanu PF deputy secretary for youth Lewis Matutu named alleged forex…
© ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) has invited applications for accreditation to observe Bikita Ward 31 and Nyanga Ward 26 by-elections which will be held on July 13. [GoogleAd] In a notice, Zec chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana also called for media accreditation to cover the by-elections. Silaigwana said all applications must be received at Zec head…
© KWEKWE City Council has finalised their supplementary budget and is now inviting ratepayers to inspect it. [GoogleAd] In a notice by the local authority, the inspection is open for the next 30 days at the council Civic Centre during normal working hours. The notice for inspection comes as Kwekwe joined many other municipalities who have…
© A GAMBLE by the Zanu PF Youth League to go public with claims of corruption against party bigwigs, bureaucrats and businesspeople has backfired spectacularly with revelations that the exercise was driven by “extortion desires” and factional agendas. [GoogleAd] This comes as calls intensified yesterday for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zanu PF leadership to reprimand…
© FORMER Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga have smoked the peace pipe after the duo settled an out of court $5 million defamation law suit, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. [GoogleAd] Moyo was represented by Sympathy Muzondiwa who yesterday had sought a withdrawal after advising the court that the…
