© TREASURY splashed over $20 million on top-of-the-range vehicles for Members of Parliament and Senators in the ninth Parliament, which the recipients will start receiving this week. Government acquired Toyota Hilux double cabs valued between US$40 000 and US$60 000 each. [GoogleAd] Considering the bicameral Parliament has a total of 350 MPs and Senators, at…
© PARLIAMENT is probing MDC MP for Matabeleland South Province (proportional representation) Lindiwe Maphosa for breaching Parliament’s code of conduct after she allegedly labelled liberation war collaborators wartime sex workers. [GoogleAd] Following a point of privilege raised by Zanu PF MP for Mberengwa East Marko Ridza last week on Tuesday complaining that Maphosa had denigrated…
© PARLIAMENT will next week carry out public consultations on the establishment of the Youth Commission. [GoogleAd] The committee will have meetings in Hwedza, Mutare, Ngundu, Gweru, Bulawayo, Gwanda, Kadoma and Harare. “The portfolio committee on Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation will hold public consultations in response to a petition on the setting up of…
© Government began compensating white commercial farmers whose land was expropriated, an agriculture lobby group said. [GoogleAd] Twenty-eight farmers received payments of RTGS$55 000 (US$8 748) each on Friday, Ben Gilpin, director of the Commercial Farmers Union, said by phone from the capital, Harare. More will receive payments tomorrow (today), he said. Zimbabwe’s government in…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has re-appointed Pardon Kusaziwa Kuipa as the vice chancellor of Lupane State University. [GoogleAd] The appointment is for a period of five years effective August 1, 2019. “The chairperson of Lupane State University council Somkhosi MT Malaba, is pleased to announce the re-appointment by His Excellency, The President of the Republic…
© OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, yesterday heaped praise on Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for carrying out extensive political reforms in his country, just hours after he had foiled a coup in one of his regions. [GoogleAd] Ahmed foiled a coup in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region which saw an army general and three others…
© GOLD producer Metallon Corporation has confirmed a fatal rockfall incident at its most viable project How Mine. The Mzi Khumalo-controlled Metallon has been having challenges which have driven down its viability. [GoogleAd] Some mines have been mothballed while the company was also battling with the central bank over payment for gold deliveries. Khumalo has…
© ZANU PF deputy secretary for youth Lewis Matutu has threatened to name forex cartels today saying they are causing the current economic problems. [GoogleAd] Matutu told the Daily News yesterday that despite efforts by the cartels to silence him, he is ready to name them all. “They are trying to silence me but it’s now too…
© SCHOOL headmasters have been blamed for frustrating efforts towards information communication technology (ICT)-based learning in the country by blocking learners from using cell phones in schools. [GoogleAd] Stakeholders attending the National Association of Secondary Heads (Nash) conference held in Victoria Falls last week bemoaned the fact that some school authorities do not realise that…
© LANDS minister Perrance Shiri has said government is facing difficulties in dealing with multiple farms owners as most of them have used proxies to register the properties. [GoogleAd] Shiri told the National Assembly on Wednesday that the government is trying to solve the issue of multiple farm owners but they have registered their relatives…
