© BS Leon Retirement Village is facing the threat of closure, unless urgent measures are taken to address the worsening crisis, including skyrocketing prices and crippling power cuts that have escalated money demands from donors. [GoogleAd] The centre, located in Monavale in Harare, was established 50 years ago to provide help and assistance to the…
© EPWORTH Local Board has gazetted a new set of tough environmental laws after approval by the Local Government minister, July Moyo. [GoogleAd] The new set of Epworth Local Board (ELB) environmental laws — Control of Worship in Open Spaces, Anti-litter and Protection of Marginalised Land By-laws — were approved in terms of the Urban…
© OVER 1 200 workers at Sunny Yi Feng Tiles (Private) Limited (YI Feng Tiles) might lose their jobs if the power outages stifling their production are not averted. [GoogleAd] YI Feng Tiles, a Chinese firm, which has invested up to US$120 million in a tile manufacturing plant in Norton — about 40 kilometres west…
© IN AN astonishing development which further raises questions on the credibility of its anti-corruption crusade, the Zanu PF Youth League has recanted allegations it made against one of the party officials — despite having insisted it had evidence against people it implicated in graft activities. [GoogleAd] Zanu PF MP and businessman, Tinoda “Tinmac” Machakaire…
© GOVERNMENT has given $30 million to the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe (IDCZ) as capital for major investment projects, in a bid to support the slowing economy. [GoogleAd] This comes as low levels of production and the attendant trade gap, insignificant foreign direct investment and lack of access to international finance due to huge…
© AS ZIMBABWE’S local authorities groan under the weight of a collapsing economy, government is facing hard choices. [GoogleAd] Should it approve supplementary budgets by the reeling local authorities and face a public backlash or reject them and paralyse operations at these municipalities? There is a price that needs to be paid, whichever way it…
© IT has been nine months since Finance minister Mthuli Ncube introduced the controversial two percent tax as part of a raft of economic measures aimed at reviving the country’s sickly economy. [GoogleAd] Ncube told the nation that money raised would be used in the rehabilitation of roads, health and education sectors. The tax was…
© Despite all these objections and remonstrations by women that “barika rakangonakira varume”, Zimbabwean men have practiced polygamy, or plural marriage, as far back as pre-Independence days. [GoogleAd] In fact, the country has produced Mushava Muchatiroto from Chipinge in Chinyamukwakwa village, who blissfully married 23 wives, and, when he died, left behind 76 children. Johanne…
© MEMBERS of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee on Friday expressed their outrage to the Lands and Agriculture ministry over a staggering US$3 billion that vanished through the system, after the money was allocated to the controversial Command Agriculture programme between 2017 and 2018. [GoogleAd] This comes as Zimbabwe is embarking on its largest importation of…
© THE country’s crippling power cuts, which have badly affected both ordinary people and businesses, yesterday seriously disrupted the services of Zimbabwe’s largest mobile network operator, Econet. [GoogleAd] This resulted in most of the country’s mobile calls and the key payment system, EcoCash — Zimbabwe’s biggest money transacting platform by far — being affected. Zimbabwe…
