© THE Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) wants to engage a consultant to look into its activities and come up with better ways of discharging its mandate. [GoogleAd] In a statement, AMA said it wishes to engage a consultant to evaluate existing private financial services, public funding programmes and subsidies, structured marketing funding facilities and contract…
© WATER levels in the Kariba Dam – the country’s only source of hydro-power – have gone down further in what could force power utility, Zesa Holdings, to tighten its load-shedding schedule. [GoogleAd] After the country was hit by a drought in the 2018/19 farming season, water levels in the man-made lake have been declining…
© VINCENT Tsvangirai, who won the right to represent the MDC in the Glen View South constituency by-elections, is confident of winning the by-election on September 7 and replace his late sister, Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java in the House of Assembly. [GoogleAd] Tsvangirai-Java died in May after being hospitalised for close to a month at a private…
© VETERAN economist John Robertson has urged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to address a plethora of economic problems when the head of Treasury presents his mid-term fiscal review and supplementary budget statement on Wednesday. [GoogleAd] The respected economist said the Finance minister must look ahead in his presentation, placing particular emphasis on agriculture. “We have…
© TOP Zanu PF officials are using the party’s name to indulge in corrupt activists, Zanu PF youth league secretary Pupurai Togarepi told the Daily News yesterday as he threatened to name and shame those who allegedly parcelled out land illegally in several urban centres around the country. [GoogleAd] Togarepi said they have a long…
© THERE are mixed reactions over the establishment of the Harare Advisory Council with some praising it while others are sceptical and fearful that this could be the beginning of commissions in local authorities. [GoogleAd] The Harare Advisory Council comprising 19 personalities picked from various fields of expertise would be advising Harare Provincial Affairs minister…
© HARARE residents have rejected the 2019 supplementary budget arguing that the high rates will stifle already struggling ratepayers. [GoogleAd] Community Water Alliance (CWA) programmes manager Hardlife Mudzingwa told the Daily News that the consultation process was not fully exhausted. A fortnight ago HCC presented an $829,86 million 2019 supplementary budget after the initial one…
© WHILE the Zimbabwean government has received a grant to assist key populations in the fight against HIV/Aids, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community still believes they are not being incorporated into such programmes. [GoogleAd] Galz, in its study titled: Understanding LGBTI Rights Recognition & Integration the Essential Guide for Policy Makers,…
© MDC MP for Kambuzuma Willias Madzimure has accused minister of Information, Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Kazembe Kazembe (ICT) of copying the opposition party’s manifesto. [GoogleAd] While responding to Zanu PF MP for Mberengwa North Tafanana Zhou’s question on what government was doing to ensure the use of ICT as an economic enabler…
© THE policy shift by central government to peg everything on the interbank rate has left Harare City Council confused, acting finance director Stanley Ndemera said. [GoogleAd] Ndemera said the city was not sure whether their debts would be converted with the prevailing interbank rate on the day or would have a flat rate. His…
