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© ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa has said government does not respect the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF), with ministers allegedly contemptuously snubbing key meetings. TNF brings together government, labour and business to the negotiating table to avoid strikes and demonstrations by workers. In an interview with the Daily News, Mutasa said…

© THE controversial Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill hustled through the first reading in May has been ruled unlawful by the Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC), which argued that the terms and descriptions of powers in the Bill is a reincarnation of the Public Order and Security Act (Posa) it seeks to repeal.   [GoogleAd]…

PARTS of Siya-so informal traders’ market in Mbare were destroyed by fire on Thursday evening, with the inferno burning property worth thousands of dollars. According to traders at the market, the fire, which started around 9pm, was only witnessed by security guards scouring the premise when it had already engulfed most of the market. [GoogleAd]…

© THE appointment of Utoile Silaigwana as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief elections officer was done above board, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said.  [GoogleAd] In a statement yesterday, Zec chairperson Priscilla Chigumba said contrary to media reports questioning the appointment procedure, the commission held interviews for the position. “For the record, the…

© Energy minister Fortune Chasi has returned home empty-handed from South Africa where he had gone to convince that country’s power utility Eskom to increase power exports to Zimbabwe. Eskom currently pumps in just 50 megawatts (MW) of electricity because of the US$27 million owed to the entity by Zesa. [GoogleAd] The South African company,…

© Standard Charted Bank Zimbabwe has appointed Mubaiwa Mubayiwa, who was head of commercial banking, as their new executive director of the bank with immediate effect. [GoogleAd] He replaces Samuel Nhakaniso who has since left the bank and also resigned from the board of directors. “Mubayiwa has been with the bank for over 20 years…

© THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has deployed youths to checkmate their Zanu PF rivals who they accuse of partisan distribution of  food and other forms of aid as tensions rise ahead the Lupane East by-election.  In a development that could see political temperatures reach boiling point, MDC deputy organising secretary Happymore Chidziva told the Daily…