© ONE of Zimbabwe’s top business people, Lovemore Chihota, has retired from RioZim Limited at the age of 80 years. [GoogleAd] In a statement, RioZim said Chihota will be replaced by Rashid Beebeejaun who assumed as chair of RioZim board on Tuesday. Chihota joined the board of directors of the company in December 2013, before…
© A GROUP of Zimbabwean students are heading to China for the Confucius International Summer School, an initiative promoting educational and cultural exchanges between the two countries. [GoogleAd] A send-off ceremony was held for the China-bound students and staff members at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) on Wednesday. The travelling group is the 11th to…
© THE MDC Youth Assembly believes attempts by their counterparts in Zanu PF to “name and shame” alleged corrupt officials in Zanu PF is an insult to the people of Zimbabwe until the ruling party starts to deal with the real culprits behind the rot. [GoogleAd] This follows a highly divisive move by the Zanu…
© BUSINESSMAN-cum-politician Joseph Makamba Busha has filed a High Court application seeking to overturn Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 which outlawed the multi-currency system. [GoogleAd] In the application filed on Friday, the FreeZim Congress president is the applicant, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya and Attorney…
© Loss-making Air Zimbabwe has failed to account for at least three MA60 aircraft, which have vanished into thin air, with Auditor General Mildred Chiri unable to establish the fate of the turboprop-powered airliners. [GoogleAd] The Auditor General’s 2018 report said there was no paper trail available to establish what happened to the noisy planes,…
© A presidential decree banning farmers from selling maize to anyone other than the state Grain Market Board in a desperate government bid to contain hikes in the price of the staple is illegal, former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said. [GoogleAd] The new Statutory Instrument (SI) 145 of 2019 gazetted on Friday states that…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the accident that claimed 16 people when a commuter omnibus and a haulage truck collided head-on at Wengezi Bridge in Featherstone on Friday a state of national disaster. [GoogleAd] In a statement, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said government would now assist in providing funds…
© MDC vice president Tendai Biti has called for political dialogue that would produce a national transitional authority (NTA) to fix Zimbabwe’s broken economy. [GoogleAd] The Harare East legislator said the current administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed, submitting what is now required is a NTA to avert an implosion. “We need a national…
© ZIMBABWE will hold a memorial tomorrow for the late vice president Joshua Nkomo, who died of prostate cancer in 1999, aged 82. [GoogleAd] The late “Father Zimbabwe”, will be remembered as the man who was so instrumental in bringing about majority rule in the country although he did not become president of the nation. Organisers…
© THE proposed Broadcasting Services Amendment Bill, 2018, will only allow very few foreigners to hold majority stakes in TV and radio stations in a clause that flagrantly violates provisions of the Constitution. [GoogleAd] While it was widely expected that broadcasting laws will be amended under terms of a new Constitution to reconstitute the ownership…
