ALL eyes will be on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the government in the coming days and weeks, after the High Court ruled yesterday against the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s tenure in office. In the judgment that may not be appealed, the High Court said the recent Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 — which…
TAMARY CHIKIWA PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reiterated that businesses should stop mourning over sanctions, but work on transforming the economy taking advantage of export and investment incentives availed by the government to promote the sector. While touring Tregers group of companies in Bulawayo on Friday, Mnangagwa said the responsibility of building an upper middle income…
MANICALAND provincial education director Edward Shumba says non-government schools are only eligible to increase fees after getting approval from the permanent secretary. This comes in the wake of an increase in school fees by institutions owned by the Anglican Church in the province, a development Shumba said violated the Education Act. “It has been brought…
THE wait is over – The book –The Bible Women of Tenacity – by Shuvai Mpundi (SM) is out. The book –…
WITH 2023 now around the corner, the MDC Alliance has reiterated the urgent need for national dialogue, especially relating to essential electoral reforms ahead of the beckoning polls. The alliance said earlier this week, following a meeting of its national standing committee in Harare, that the much-talked about dialogue should include the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission…
LEGISLATORS have given the government a seven-day ultimatum to allocate them residential stands they were promised, failure of which they said they will take legal action. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa said if the government failed to give them the residential stands he was going to approach the…
THE parliamentary portfolio committee on Budget and Finance says there is a need to speed up the Pension and Provident Funds Bill, which will help cushion pensioners, who are currently wallowing in poverty. In a report after public hearings on the Bill, the committee said the country’s laws were now outdated and no longer address…
ZIMBABWE requires over 50 000 additional teachers to match the requirements of the Covid-19 standard operating procedures introduced by the government to curb the spread of the deadly virus, Labour minister Paul Mavima has said. In a ministerial statement presented in the National Assembly yesterday, Mavima said the government was in the process of recruiting…
FORMER Cabinet minister and Zanu PF Mashonaland West senator, Prisca Mupfumira, who is facing corruption charges, has been given her passport back to allow her to travel to South Africa on Parliament business. Through her lawyer Admire Rubaya, Mupfumira produced documents showing she had been cleared to travel by the government, before applying for the…
A SUSPECTED armed robber has been arrested on allegations of conniving with seven accomplices in stealing a safe from a company in Graniteside, Harare which contained US$166 000. It is alleged that on May 4, 2021, Justin Chibaya, 37, and his alleged accomplices are said to have attacked a security guard, threatening him with a…
