© 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…
© COMING face to face with real problems children face in communities, it dawned on Francisca Barbara Matsanga that poverty is a multifaceted challenge that leaves children as primary victims of the scourge. Being engaged by the Public Service, Labour and Social Wel- fare ministry as provincial manager for poverty alleviation in Chipinge and Marondera…
© AIM-lIsted Premier African Minerals says its RHA tungsten mine in Zimbabwe will be fully connected to electricity supply early in 2020 after delivery of equipment by Zesa Holdings (Zesa). Zesa has provided RHA with a temporary solution that can be operated manually at site until a new transformer is delivered and installed. [Adz] George…
© OIL and gas exploration company Invictus Energy and Tatanga Energy have signed a gas sales memorandum of understanding (MoU) to progress gas supply from Cabora Bassa Project and develop a 500-megawatt (MW) gas-to-power plant. The MoU also covers the supply of up to 36,5 billion cubic feet of gas per year (Bcf) for 20…
© IMAGINE guns blazing away and bombs exploding everywhere, the smell of death pervading the air, with no hope of seeing the next day. For Frank Imani, the fear of death saw him embark on a journey down south from his Cameroon home, where Boko Haram rebels were breathing fire and baying for citizens’ blood….
© THE year 2019 began on a sad note as nationwide protests rocked the country following steep fuel price hikes. The protests resulted in massive violations of human rights, with 17 people killed and more than 85 injured. One of the key organisations that documented the human rights violations was the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO…
