© THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (Mcaz) has warned the pub- lic against buying fake and substandard hay fever and flue medicines being sold in some pharmacies in Harare and Chivhu. In a statement, Mcaz head of the licencing and enforcement division, Richard Rukwata, said the falsified medicines include the flumed children’s cough and…
© BY 4am yesterday, hundreds of people were queuing at Hello Paisa’s Malaicha.com outlet at Copacabana in Harare, waiting to collect gro- ceries paid for in South Africa. Malaicha.com is a mobile application that Zimbabweans in South Africa can use to buy groceries in that country for their family and friends back in Zimba- bwe….
© MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party’s “greed and love for power” for the bleak Christmas that Zimbabweans are set to endure tomorrow. In his Christmas message released yesterday, Chamisa said the “joblessness and pennilessness” of the majority of the country’s citizens was a result of a…
© MATABELELAND North has once again recorded the highest number of open defecation cases in the country as most villagers reportedly settled in the province’s various districts without proper sanitation services, a report has revealed. According to Unicef, open defecation is the disposal of human waste in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water or…
© THE City of Harare has set aside $1,5 million to kick-start the Urban Renewal Project which will see the construction of new public toilets and provision of adequate refuse bins in the Central Business District. While accessing toilets is a basic human right, the ballooning population in the capital has made it impossible for…
© FAKE business licences have rocked the capital as a Harare City Council audit report revealed that 37 percent of the sample licences submitted for verification were fake. According to the audit report, there was a cartel working with corrupt council officials that was issuing out the licences. A council environmental health official had since…
© HARARE City Council has put on hold a tender process for water purification chemicals following revelations that some companies were corruptly given access to test their chemicals at Morton Jaffray before submitting bids. Recent council minutes show that four of the bidding companies; Nanotech Water Solutions P/L, Water Dimensions International, Aqua Global and Microlab…
© THE reported discord in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) has not come as a surprise to many who have always wondered why it was set up in the first place. While on face value the advisory council should be a potentially good sounding board for the head of state, Mnangagwa and Zanu…
© THE Financial Securities Exchange (Finsec) in partnership with C-Trade and United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have launched a growth enterprises market (GEM) portal designed to enable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to raise capital through equity listing or debt funding. Finsec chief executive officer Collin Tapfumaneyi said the platform was designed in…
© ONLY 15 percent of the country’s three million small medium enterprises (SMEs) are formally registered, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said. The Treasury boss said this while speaking at the recent launch of the growth enterprise market (GEM) portal SME Funding and Listing platform which was developed by the Financial Securities Exchange (Finsec), which…
