© ZIMBABWE Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has so far cancelled six licences of non-performing Independent Power Producers (IPPs). [GoogleAd] This comes after Energy and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi asked Zera to examine the status of each licensed project, to establish challenges being faced and to examine which licence holders are keeping them for “speculative…
© THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has committed to pay US$2,9 million of the money required by the Global Fund to access $400 million in donor funds to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria. [GoogleAd] This comes after HIV activists gave government a 72-hour ultimatum to pay the total of US$6 million to commit to…
© PHYSICIANS in the country have launched a Family Physicians Zimbabwe Trust (FPZT) which is set to open a vocational centre in a bid to assist medical practitioners develop their skills. [GoogleAd] The trust has reportedly been set up to improve care experience for patients and increase access to appropriate care. Among the board members…
NORTON independent legislator Temba Mliswa has threatened to take government to the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) over its failure to fulfil what they promised to the lawmakers. Mliswa told the National Assembly yesterday that the government is not respecting Parliament. “I am told that MPs from both Zanu PF and MDC were told they will only…
© FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti says government should dollarise immediately saying the Zimbabwean dollar will further dip as there are no economic fundamentals to sustain a local currency. This comes after Zimbabwe’s inflation hit 175 percent, the highest in 10 years, leaping from 97 percent. Biti said without dollarisation, the monetary authorities will not…
PROMINENT activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube was arrested yesterday along with two others, as they attempted to demonstrate against the deteriorating economic situation. Ngulube was arrested outside the premises of a major retailer in central Bulawayo, just a few minutes after he had camped at the site in readiness to march towards the Joshua Nkomo statue…
© ZIMBABWE National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) chief executive officer Christopher Mugaga has said companies are not in a position to increase salaries without first improving productivity, which has been drastically hampered by power outages. Mugaga said this following Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s call during a recent Daily News Business Breakfast Forum on the new…
© THREATENING letters and bullets recently sent to leaders of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in a bid to frighten them from organising a job boycott on July 22 is an ominous sign depicting the worsening state of the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Such a dastardly act has no place in a country…
FORMER Zimbabwe quick Edward Rainsford has stepped down from his post in the suspended Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) board. Rainsford, who is now mostly working as a broadcaster after retiring from the game, was elected into the ZC board at last month’s elective Annual General Meeting in Victoria Falls. Since he was an ex-cricketer, Rainsford was…
© THE Zifa Northern Region Division One League will take a two-week break with second-placed Black Mambas reducing the gap on log leaders Cranborne Bullets to just five points. Bullets suffered a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Kariba Waves at the weekend and on the same day, Black Mambas edged Blue Jets 0-2 to…
