September 2019

© RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has been summoned to appear before the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (Pac) to answer allegations that US$3 billion vanished under the controversial Command Agriculture programme between 2017 and 2018. [GoogleAd] Pac chairperson Tendai Biti told the Daily News yesterday that his committee wants clarification on alleged…

© THE government has gazetted new salaries for the catering industry with the least paid worker getting $349,89 and the highest paid getting $571,56 monthly. [GoogleAd] The new salaries are in Statutory Instrument 190 of 2019. “Every employer shall place each employee in a grade prescribed appropriate to his or her occupation, and shall with…

© The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Association (Artuz) says 190 teachers in rural areas resigned in August over poor salaries. Artuz president Obert Masaraure yesterday said: “We have received 190 messages of resignation from teachers since the beginning of August. [GoogleAd] These are our members who have notified us of their resignation and most of them…

© THE government on Friday gazetted the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) Bill which seeks to enhance the operations of the court. [GoogleAd] The Bill seeks to provide for the manner in which the Con-Court may exercise its jurisdiction and provide for the making of rules and regulations guiding it. It also makes provisions for appeals from…

© THE parliamentary portfolio committee on budget and finance led by Chikomba Central MP Felix Mhona says pensioners are now experiencing the same hardships they faced in 2008 when all their savings were wiped out due to an economic crisis. [GoogleAd] In its latest report, the committee urged the government put in place measures to…

© AS ZIMBABWEANS and regional peers of the late former president Robert Mugabe gathered in Harare yesterday to bid him farewell, a storm was brewing over the formation of a new political party that is allegedly linked to him, the Daily News On Sunday reports. [GoogleAd] This comes as there are growing fears within Zanu…

© President Cyril Ramaphosa was embarrassed by a chorus of jeers and boos at the State funeral of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in Harare yesterday. [GoogleAd] A pastor called on the crowd at Harare’s partially-full National Sports Stadium on Saturday to calm down, but they would not stop.  But a resilient Ramaphosa turned the…

© ZIMBABWE’S founding father, the late President Robert Mugabe, was given a massive send-off, marked by a fly past, 21-gun salute, release of 95 doves and tributes from African leaders at the National Sports Stadium, Harare, yesterday. [GoogleAd] Mugabe, who died in Singapore last week, aged 95, in death united Zimbabweans from all walks of…

© A WAR veteran has dragged Beatrice Government Primary School to court for barring his children from lessons after failing to pay levies and tuition. [GoogleAd] Happyson Makomeya argued that he was a beneficiary of the War Veterans Pension Fund that paid his children’s fees and could not be liable for the delays in fulfilling…