© GOVERNMENT is rolling out a food distribution programme in urban areas to assist those in urgent need of food assistance, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said. [GoogleAd] Ncube told guests during a Daily News Business Breakfast Forum held in the capital on Monday that whereas in previous years food assistance was restricted to rural…
© GOVERNMENT is working towards off-loading long-standing legacy debts that have been distressing industry following the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s decision to liberalise the foreign exchange market. [GoogleAd] Speaking during the Daily News Business Breakfast Forum on Monday, RBZ governor John Mangudya said government has come up with a settlement plan using the Brady…
© FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube said they will be hiring a communications person to help them explain government policies to the general populace. [GoogleAd] On Monday, Ncube told guests at the Daily News Business Breakfast Forum held to discuss the implications of the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar that government’s policies were not being properly…
© ZIMBABWE Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) acting general manager Luke Akino demoted Jena Mines manager Voster Mamvura and assigned him to head a dysfunctional mine after he refused to sign contract on behalf of the subsidiary citing irregularities in the legal document, a court heard yesterday. [GoogleAd] enior regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya heard this during…
© CITY of Harare has written a letter to the Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi indicating its intention to withdraw charges against Sunshine Development director Michael van Blerk who stands accused of defrauding the local authority of $1,5 million in a property development deal gone wrong. [GoogleAd] Van Blerk allegedly misrepresented to NMB Bank that he…
© ACTIVIST cleric Evan Mawarire and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) president Peter Gift Mutasa appeared in court yesterday for routine remand, with the State failing to furnish them with a trial date. [GoogleAd] Mawarire and Mutasa are accused of plotting to topple the government after they posted a video online inviting members of…
© FORMER Zanu PF Makokoba legislator Tshinga Dube faces eviction from his council-leased parliamentary offices situated in Nguboyenja high density suburbs. [GoogleAd] In July, 2017, the Zanu PF politician entered into a one-year lease agreement with the Bulawayo City Council. However despite Dube’s parliamentary term having ended in July last year he has remained occupying…
© SOME local authorities in the Matabeleland region have been exposed for their poor governance skills, particularly related to revenue collection, in a move that has reportedly been robbing them of potential revenue. [GoogleAd] In her annual report on local authorities Auditor-General Mildred Chiri touched on Tsholotsho, Victoria Falls, Bubi and Beitbridge local authorities noting…
© THE Bulawayo City Council has moved to decentralise access to fruit and vegetable markets in the high density suburbs. [GoogleAd] From time immemorial, informal fruit and vegetable vendors have been known to take transport in the wee hours of the morning to the city centre to get the fresh and cheap products in the…
© THE city council here has said its latest move to rehabilitate its roads has been dealt a major blow by among other factors erratic supply of bitumen owing to foreign currency shortages. [GoogleAd] This comes after the city has for the past three months been seriously engaged in the sprucing of roads in the…
