© THE government must urgently pay US$6 million to the Global Fund to enable Zimbabwe to access $400 million in donor funds to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria in the country. [GoogleAd] As a result of the delay in paying the US$6m to the Global Fund, furious HIV/Aids activists have since petitioned Parliament to pressure…
© THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC will continue engaging Sadc in a bid to solve the country’s crisis although President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon chair the bloc’s organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation which is responsible for solving disputes in the region. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe is set to chair the Sadc Organ On politics, Defence and Security…
© CIVIL servants have petitioned government demanding to be paid an equivalent of at least US$475, otherwise they will declare incapacitation and stop reporting for duty. [GoogleAd] The petition was first submitted to the Public Service deputy minister Lovemore Matuke and then to the Finance permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga during a demonstration yesterday. In the…
© THE minister of Local Government, July Moyo has appointed a seven-member commission to assess Plumtree town council’s preparedness for municipal status. [GoogleAd] Plumtree town secretary Davies Dumezweni Luthe confirmed the new development in a notice yesterday. “Pursuant to the application for Municipal status by Plumtree Town Council, the minister of Local Government ……
© TEACHERS will be going for an early holiday if government fails to address salary crisis by Monday July 22, 2019, an educators union has said. [GoogleAd] The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) added that teachers are now incapacitated and can no longer render services. “Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) calls…
© ZIMBABWEAN lawyer Chris Mhike says the country risks continued demonisation by the international community as a country that does not respect media rights if it fails to implement democratic media law reforms. [GoogleAd] Mhike expressed concern that some of the inputs by the media and civil society had not been included in the now…
© Businessperson Wicknell Chivayo, pictured below, has approached the courts seeking further particulars to enable him to adequately prepare his defence in a case he is accused of paying a US$10 000 bribe to former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje. [GoogleAd] Chivayo, his company Intratrek Zimbabwe and Kazhanje, are jointly charged in…
© FORMER ICT minister Supa Mandiwanzira was back in court yesterday where his trial was postponed to August 5 pending finalisation of High Court proceedings. [GoogleAd] Mandiwanzira is standing trial for criminal abuse of office after allegedly appointing his personal assistant Tawanda Chinembiri to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory (Potraz) board. Prosecutor Zivanai Macharaga sought…
© PROMINENT lawyer and deputy chairperson of the Law Development Commission (LDC) Joel Bigboy Zowa is no more. Affectionately known as J.B, Zowa died on Friday (July 12, 2019) while on business in New York, the United States. [GoogleAd] “The legal profession has been robbed of a dedicated professional and his contribution will be forever…
© THE ZIMBABWE Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Zimvac) has said up to 5 million people, over a quarter of Zimbabwe’s drought-stricken rural population, are projected to be food insecure during the peak season and will need aid. [GoogleAd] An El Nino-induced drought has hit southern Africa and cut the output of the staple maize crop. According…
