WARRING opposition bigwigs need to urgently bury the hatchet and draw lessons from the exemplary leadership of the revered late founding father of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai, who left behind a thriving and formidable movement. So says former MDC chairman Morgen Komichi, who candidly admits that current opposition leaders have an almost impossible job to…
BRANDON JOSPHAT Chief Writer CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu is set to be recalled from Parliament after his expulsion from the party last week for alleged misdeeds. Tshabangu, the leader of opposition in Parliament, was charged with four counts, including tarnishing the party’s image and undermining its leadership, after appearing before…
THE Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, has warned that discomforting measures will be applied to Members of Parliament who attend parliamentary business for only 30 minutes and then leave the House. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Mudenda emphasised that lawmakers must abide by the country’s constitution and avoid disengaging from parliamentary…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THE World Food Programme (WFP) Zimbabwe says it is scaling down its humanitarian assistance in the country due to a lack of funding. This comes after USAid withdrew all its humanitarian assistance across the globe and halted all its programmes, including those in Zimbabwe, from which WFP also benefited. In its latest…
BY RUTENDO NGARA A ZB BANK Mutare branch manager, Tonderai Karimutsa, told a Harare magistrate recently that a couple accused of defrauding former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Gideon Gono, of over $100 million in 2017 was liable for the offence. Karimutsa told regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje that he has been with the bank…
TAKUDZWA Saruwaka is hoeing weeds in a cowpea field in eastern Zimbabwe one morning in February, trying to beat torrential rains threatening…
BATSIRAI Mutara started selling cheese and dairy products from a makeshift roadside stand when he was 27. It was a far cry from his former office job, where inflation devoured his paycheck, which came in Zimbabwean dollars, faster than he could spend it. He wanted a stable income, so he ventured into informal trading, where…
ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) has named a strong 17-man Zimbabwe ‘A’ squad to face Canada in a three-match one day series in Harare later this month. The 50-over series begins at Takashinga Cricket Club in Highfield on February 26, before moving to Harare Sports Club for the remaining two matches on February 28 and March 1….
BY STELLA MADZIVANYIKA THE government must digitise the country’s investment process, limit expenditure, seal revenue leakages, and tax the informal sector, economic experts have said. This recommendation is in the recently launched Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Audit (Zefa), developed with input from the Canadian public policy think tank, the Fraser Institute. “New areas of expertise must…
NYASHA KUNYISWASenior Staff Writer THE private sector has committed to investing in health infrastructure to complement government efforts in ensuring access to quality healthcare for citizens. This comes after parliamentarians called for legislation to ban ministers and top government officials from seeking medical assistance in foreign countries while the country’s health delivery system is collapsing….
