© THE reported discord in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) has not come as a surprise to many who have always wondered why it was set up in the first place. While on face value the advisory council should be a potentially good sounding board for the head of state, Mnangagwa and Zanu…
© RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has been tasked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to inject more money into the market following unending cash woes that have resulted in long bank queues. In a bid to lessen the cash shortages, the government had in recent weeks injected $110 million in notes and coins…
© HARARE City Council has put on hold a tender process for water purification chemicals following revelations that some companies were corruptly given access to test their chemicals at Morton Jaffray before submitting bids. Recent council minutes show that four of the bidding companies; Nanotech Water Solutions P/L, Water Dimensions International, Aqua Global and Microlab…
© RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe tsar John Mangudya is on record saying the country is a “sleeping” economic giant and all that is needed to awaken it is discipline. Discipline in the way the country conducts its business and politics will deliver social develop- ment to the long suffering Zimbabweans who are saddled with high…
© FAKE business licences have rocked the capital as a Harare City Council audit report revealed that 37 percent of the sample licences submitted for verification were fake. According to the audit report, there was a cartel working with corrupt council officials that was issuing out the licences. A council environmental health official had since…
© THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) at the weekend officially opened an information centre in Gokwe, bringing to 24 the containerised village information centres (CVICs) in eight rural provinces of the country. Potraz director-general Gift Machengete, pictured, said this during the official launch of the centre at Manoti business complex in…
© THE City of Harare has set aside $1,5 million to kick-start the Urban Renewal Project which will see the construction of new public toilets and provision of adequate refuse bins in the Central Business District. While accessing toilets is a basic human right, the ballooning population in the capital has made it impossible for…
© THE Defence and War Veterans ministry and commander of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Edzai Chimonyo have filed court papers challenging a $340 000 suit filed by a Harare man who claimed he was assaulted by soldiers during the January fuel hike protests. Slyden Zvinowanda is seeking compensation from the army after claiming he…
© MATABELELAND North has once again recorded the highest number of open defecation cases in the country as most villagers reportedly settled in the province’s various districts without proper sanitation services, a report has revealed. According to Unicef, open defecation is the disposal of human waste in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water or…
© A SUSPECTED hired bouncer who reportedly ganged up with 15 other men and attacked Zimbabwe Fashion Week founder Priscilla Chigariro and her one-year-old child, forcing her to leave her house, has appeared in court. Alois Chitauro, 40, is being charged with assault and was advised to return to court on January 8 for his…
