THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) commissioned 117 ser viced housing stands in the Pumula suburb on Friday as part of its presale scheme to clear the city’s housing backlog. This comes as several thousands of Bulawayo residents have been on the housing waiting list for decades now with the local authority struggling to cope with…
By Rutendo NgaraStaff Writer DESPITE the expected El Nino conditions in the 2023/24 cropping season, the Famine Early Warning System (Fewsnet) says Zimbabwe is part of Southern African countries that are expected to be grain self-sufficient. The El Nino phenomenon is expected to be characterised by below normal to normal rain falls in most Sadc…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT & BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI THE extension of the multi-currency system by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to 2030 brings necessary policy certainty and will enhance the country’s economic development, business says. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Kurai Matsheza, was among the economic experts…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu says he will soon embark on a national tour and “decisively” deal with issues of imposition and double candidate selection ahead of the December council and parliamentary by-elections. This comes after Tshabangu recalled 24 parliamentarians and 17 councillors on the grounds that they fraudulently became party…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday extended the use of the multi-currency to 2030. The multi-currency was expected to end in 2025. According to the Statutory Instrument (SI) 218 of 2023 published in the Government Gazette yesterday, Mnangagwa said the multi-currency system had been extended to December 31, 2030. “His Excellency the President, in terms of section…
MARRY Mubaiwa, who is on trial facing charges of attempting to kill her former husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has engaged a new lawyer, Harrison Nkomo, after her previous lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, renounced agency on Thursday. Mubaiwa appeared before Ha rare Magistrate Feresi Chakany uka yesterday, where she told the court that she had secured…
By Brandon Josphat VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, says there is no room for a government of national unity (GNU) as Zanu PF won the August elections resoundingly. Speaking during the ongoing Zanu PF national people’s conference in Gweru, Chiwenga said those who were calling for a GNU were day dreaming as the ruling party…
MARRY Mubaiwa’s lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, yesterday left the court in a huff after the magistrate refused to grant her client postponement of her trial as she has just under gone another medical operation. Mubaiwa, who is currently on trial facing attempted murder charges for allegedly trying to kill her former husband, Vice President Constatino Chiwenga,…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) says it owes farmers an estimated US$25 million and $20 billion in local currency from last season’s grain deliveries. Speaking at an Agriculture ministry 2024 pre-budget portfolio committee meeting this week, the GMB finance director, Clemence Guta, admitted that the failure to pay farmers on time adversely…
By Ashley Moyo and Anesu MirisawuENTERTAINMENT WRITERS ALL roads in Chitungwiza and surrounding areas will lead to the Aquatic Complex in Zengeza tonight where veteran music promoter Partson “Chipaz” Chimbodza is hosting a Zim Giants concert. The name says it all, the Zim Giants concert features the country’s top entertainers and these are Alick Macheso,…
