© WHILE the government has pegged passports pro- cessing for Zimbabweans living in foreign countries at US$318, it has to also look at their right — as citizens contributing to our coffers — to vote as well. The Zimbabwe diaspora is spread out mainly in South Africa, Botswana, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States,…
© THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) behaved in a strange manner in handling the CAPS United team bus issue earlier this week. Zimra showed their heavy-handedness by impounding the luxury coach donated to Makepekepe by their former striker Nyasha Mushekwi on the eve of a crucial Castle Lager Premiership encounter against Ngezi Platinum Stars. [GoogleAd]…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with Zanu PF bigwigs not to be enticed by ambitious politicians who wanted to destroy the party. This comes as the 77-year-old leader has, on several occasions, admitted the existence factional- ism in the ruling party. Recently, he claimed that remnants of the vanquished Generation 40 (G40) faction, which…
© BUSINESSMAN Genius Kadungure yesterday had his bail conditions temporarily varied to enable his travel to South Africa and Botswana during the festive season for business. Kadungure appeared before the deputy chief magistrate Crispen Mberewere represented by Brighton Pabwe. Mberewere scrapped Kadungure’s reporting conditions and released his passport up to February 11 next year. [GoogleAd]…
© WHILE the Companies and Other Business Entities Act (Cobe) addresses fundamental aspects that improve corporate governance in the private sector, the new law falls short on the administration of company boards, a top business executive has said. Zimbabwe leadership Forum (Zimlef) chairperson Canaan Farirai Dube said this on the sidelines of the Zimlef Unpacking…
© HIGH Court judge Webster Chinamora has handed down an order blocking the construction of a church in one of Harare’s wetlands area, after ruling that the institution had failed to comply with the required statutes. This comes after an application by Harare Wetlands Trust and Newlands Residents Association challenging the construction works by Life…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged war veterans and collaborators to come up with productive projects and shun the dependency syndrome, saying that the era for government handouts was over. Addressing the media before the 335th ordinary session of the politburo on Wednesday that marked the beginning of Zanu PF’s annual conference, Mnangagwa said the days…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, has shot down calls to increase excise duty on alcohol as well as levy a tax on environment polluters as part of measures to raise funds to cushion the security sector and war veterans from economic hardships. The parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence had tabled a report recommending the levying…
© NINE people died in two separate road accidents yesterday. In the first accident, five people perished in an accident involving a haulage truck and a pick-up truck that occurred at the intersection of Borrowdale Road and Harare Drive yesterday morning, while in the second, four died after a Zambia-bound Trip Trans bus crashed on…
© RIGHTS groups have warned that the country’s worsening economic rot and rising incidence of repression by security forces in response to dissent by long-suffering citizens could lead to civil unrest. This comes as the jury is still out on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, following recent human rights violations including deaths of innocent civilians during…
