THE UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Hilal Elver, is right: Zimbabwe is staring down the barrel of a food emergency. By the end of the month, up to eight million citizens could be in need of assistance, with women and children disproportionately impacted.Elver, following her visit, identified natural disasters, corruption, and economic…
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa last week presented his version of the state of the nation address to his supporters in Mbare, Harare. His Vision 2020 address was both instructive and categorical that the MDC will take a radical stance against the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government, including rolling demonstrations to force the Zanu PF regime to address…
POLICE have arrested three members of the elite Presidential Guard, as well as a former broadcaster, after they allegedly assaulted villagers and tried to forcefully take over a gold mine in Mt Darwin, the Daily News reports. This comes as authorities have launched a crackdown against machete-wielding gangs across the country’s mining belts — following…
HARARE North MDC Member of Parliament Allan Markham’s application challenging the State-run Grain Marketing Board (GMB)’s monopoly to buy and sell maize will be heard by High Court judge Clement Phiri on Thursday. Markham, who buys and sells maize in communities to support a number of charities, and Murewa-based farmer Clever Rambanapasi, are jointly challenging…
FORMER Labour deputy minister, Tapiwa Matangaidze and his wife of 24 years — Rebecca Matangaidze (nee Chimbera) — have officially divorced after the High Court granted the request for the two to part ways. Chimbera filed the divorce papers claiming the marriage between the two had irretrievably broken down. In terms of the divorce decree,…
EDUCATORS in the country have expressed dismay over government’s decisions to overlook assistants of teachers living with disability when it gave a cushioning allowance to civil servants, the Daily News reports. Government awarded a $750 cushioning allowance across the board this month to hedge their income against inflation but left out those who work with…
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has pooh-poohed threats by the government at the weekend that authorities would arrest him if he mounted any unsanctioned demonstrations, the Daily News reports. The MDC boss said yesterday that the reality was that authorities were completely powerless to stop Zimbabweans from holding protests against the government and the country’s worsening…
© THE decision to reduce value added tax (Vat) from 15 percent to 14,5 percent and to change the intermediated money transfer tax (IMTT) tax-free threshold from $20 to $100, had a minimal impact on prices of basic goods. Vat is an indirect tax on consumption, charged on the supply of taxable goods and services…
THE thriving black market where basic commodities are readily affordable to consumers at cheaper prices is threatening the viability of retailers, Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers president Denford Mutashu has said. Mutashu said the retail sector is reeling from the effects of Statutory Instrument 142 which outlawed use of foreign currency for domestic transactions. Last year,…
CHURCHES will early next month hold a memorial service to commemorate the life of Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church leader Bishop Tefius Mugodhi who died end of last year. Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches Council (Zacc) patron Jimayi Muduvuri told the Daily News that his organisation has started preparing for the event. “We are going to buy the…
