EDITOR — It is sad to note that most local authorities are failing to provide essential services throughout the country. The economy is in bad shape, everyone knows that. Residents are struggling to service their bills. For this reason, local authorities’ revenue bases are dwindling. Under such a scenario, we would expect those at the…
© METBANK Limited (Metbank) has demanded $100 million defamation damages from the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) after Auditor-General Mildred Chiri’s report fingered the banking institution in unlawful and corrupt transactions alleged to have prejudiced government. [GoogleAd] The audit was for the year ending December 31, 2018. Metbank Limited has cited Nssa and BDO Zimbabwe…
© MDC students council has bemoaned exorbitant off-university campus rentals that are being charged in United States dollars. [GoogleAd] The council said it was unacceptable that the US dollar pricing continues even after government introduced an interim currency, the RTGS dollar, in a bid to end a decade of dollarisation that saw the US dollar…
© MDC MP for Mutare Central Innocent Gonese has demanded that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube tells the National Assembly whether Zanu PF paid duty on vehicles they acquired for use by their party members. [GoogleAd] According to Parliament Order Paper, Gonese demanded answers from Ncube on whether Zanu PF paid duty when they bought vehicles…
© The 2019 University of Zimbabwe Research week came to an end on Friday with exhortations to researchers to ground their research in solutions to the issues that need to be solved. [GoogleAd] Themed, “Championing Demand-driven Research and Innovation for Industrial and Societal Solutions: Rallying Towards Vision 2030 Through Education 5.0”, the symposium was…
© FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is up for some grilling by Parliament on why government chartered a plane from Singapore last year for former First Lady Grace Mugabe to attend her mothers’ funeral. [GoogleAd] President Emmerson Mnangagwa facilitated the return of former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace from Singapore for the funeral, attracting…
© CYBER-SAVVY retailers and supermarkets are offering relief to Diasporans by creating facilities to allow direct payments for groceries, equipment and hardware which they will deliver to given addresses. [GoogleAd] The facilities also allow some recipients to get their remittances in local currency from the shops. Diasporans have previously been fleeced of their remittances. Zimbabweans outside…
© SUSPECTED security agents abducted and tortured an MDC youth leader and a pro-democracy activist in pre-dawn raids yesterday — further raising tensions ahead of tomorrow’s mass protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure government, the Daily News can report. [Adz] The barbaric acts, which occurred regularly during the tenure of former president…
© THE mining sector, which contributes over 60 percent of the country’s export earnings, has applauded government for concluding an electricity deal with Eskom, which will see the South African power utility supplying 400 megawatts (MW) to Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] The deal which followed high-level engagements between Zimbabwe and South Africa is leveraged on tripartite agreements…
© SO MUCH has been written about EcoCash agents this week, probably too much for EcoCash’s liking. [GoogleAd] But then it would appear EcoCash itself wittingly or unwittingly started the publicity. Around Thursday last week the popular mobile money business put out adverts in the media warning its customers and the public not to…
