Black Edward IT’S distressing to observe that most of those with the power to make a difference in other people’s lives are not doing so and, consequently, literally prolonging their misery. Watch how some of our highest-ranking officials keep their mouths shut when one of them makes a blunder which results in many people suffering….
ZIMBABWE has been engaging and re-engaging the international community in the quest to discard the bad image tag stuck on it for over two decades as it seeks to turn around its flagging economic fortunes. With its foreign policy premised on being an enemy to none and a friend to all, Harare recently expressed satisfaction…
“EVERYONE finds selling on the streets the easiest way to survive, but you have to be creative.” Noel Ngwenya, 44, from Chivi,…
FINANCIAL services giant Old Mutual Zimbabwe Limited has launched its fintech business, Old Mutual Digital Services (Private) Limited (OMDS), a subsidiary that will provide mobile money services, insurtech, investech, digital lending, e-commerce, payments and digital products and services for the retail mass market. The company is wholly-owned by Old Mutual Zimbabwe Limited (OMZIL) and has…
ZANU PF has whipped its aspiring legislators into refraining from perpetrating violence and ordering them to preach peace as they hit the campaign trail in their constituencies ahead of this year’s harmonised elections. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa had, on several occasions, implored citizens not to fight over the polls. Speaking to the Daily…
BY BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI AND BRANDON JOSPHAT DESPITE the recent insistence by authorities that parents can pay fees in Zim dollars, many schools — which are feeling the heat of the country’s slumping currency — are asking for payments exclusively in US dollars. This comes as schools open for the second term this week, amid growing…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday shelved its contentious primaries by acclamations in urban areas, ostensibly to enable the party to ramp up its mobilisation of its support base ahead of this year’s crunch national elections. This came as some of the party’s top cats were set to battle it out in key constituencies…
THE Civil Registry department will carry out a three-month mop-up national mobile civil registration exercise starting Monday as the country prepares to hold its general elections before the end of August. In a statement, the department says the exercise would run up to July. “The Civil Registry Department wishes to advise members of the public…
BY RUTENDO NGARA AT LEAST 21 more Zimbabweans are expected to arrive today in the country to add to the 42 who were safely evacuated from the war-ravaged nation last Friday evening. Speaking to the media after landing at the Robert Mugabe International Airport, Zimbabwean ambassador to Sudan Emmanuel Runganga Gumbo described the situation in…
TWO board members of the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) have been hauled before the courts after they were arrested allegedly for stealing from the company. Wellington Tutisa, 54, and Cecilia Alexander, 55, appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje on Friday before they were remanded in custody. They are set to appear back in…
