Incarcerated cleric Robert Martin Gumbura yesterday passed away at Chikurubi Maximum Prison Hospital where he was serving a 20-year jail sentence for rape due to Covid-19-related complications. Gumbura, who had 11 wives and 30 children, was 65 at the time of his death. Zimbabwe Prisons and Correction Services (ZPCS) spokesperson Meya Khanyezi confirmed the RMG…
ZB Financial Holdings Limited (ZBFH) has appointed Shepherd Tapiwanashe Fungura as its new group chief executive officer (CEO). The appointment was with effect from August 1. Fungura took over from Fanuel Kapanje, who has been holding fort in an acting capacity following the resignation of group CEO Ron Mutandagayi at the end of May. He…
THE Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has donated 40 000 litres of diesel to the Civil Protection Unit to be used by government ambulances to ferry Covid-19 patients to hospitals across the country. It also donated 270 grocery hampers worth $925 000. The donation was handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week by ICZ…
A FRESH storm is brewing in the MDC Alliance, with a number of the coalition’s bigwigs fiercely resisting a move by its leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, to forgo primary elections and let communities choose their parliamentary candidates for the 2023 polls. Insiders in the tension-ravaged alliance told the Daily News yesterday that the controversial plans were tabled during…
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza says women business owners must be brave enough to embrace technological innovation to boost their incomes, especially during this Covid-19 pandemic. Since the advent of the pandemic in March last year, those businesses which had already adopted an e-commerce approach have managed to stay afloat since they can interact…
AN estimated 1 500 National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) short term contract (STCs) employees are set to lose their jobs as the parastatal implements its restructuring exercise. On the other hand, the exercise has also sparked low morale particularly in those in top positions following the management’s move to freeze other departments and redeploy those…
AUTHORITIES say they will persist with their current policies which have steadied the economy and resulted in relatively stable prices of many basic consumer goods. Presenting his mid-term monetary policy statement (MPS) yesterday, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe John Mangudya, pictured, also expressed confidence that the economy would continue on its recovery…
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka says the country is running out of land to redistribute to prospective new indigenous farmers with the waiting list now standing at over 250 000. This comes at a time the country is facing a rapid increase of human population, which is putting extraordinary pressure on the country’s natural resources available,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to shun divisions and work together to improve the country’s socio-economic fortunes regardless of who wins elections to govern the nation. Speaking at State House yesterday, at the launch of his biography — A life of Sacrifice — Mnangagwa beseeched citizens to “craft beautiful lessons of reconciliation, national unity, national peace,…
THE government is laying the groundwork to eventually establish provincial councils nationwide as provided for in the Constitution, Local Government minister July Moyo, has said. The provincial councils were elected in the 2013 and 2018 polls, but the officials were not sworn in ostensibly because there were legal issues that needed to be dealt with…
