Tapiwa Chirume MASVINGO and Plumtree have enacted strict new noise-control by-laws, with offenders, including churches, wedding organisers, and businesses, facing heavy fines, permit cancellations, and confiscation of equipment. The regulations, published in the latest Government Gazette, prohibit any noise that disturbs residents, such as loud music, shouting, drumming, and even the noise from animals like…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER THE High Court has ordered the Home Affairs minister and the police commissioner to pay US$42 000 in compensation after a 2017 police chase of commuter omnibuses in Harare resulted in the death of a child and injury to her mother. On the day of the incident, Patricia Dengezi, who…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is accelerating digital reforms to improve border efficiency and attract investment. Speaking at a business engagement forum in Bulawayo yesterday, Zimra commissioner general Regina Chinamasa said the tax authority was working to reduce the red tape that has long frustrated importers, exporters, and investors. “This year we are focusing on…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa today reshuffled his Politburo, moving Secretary General Obert Mpofu to Secretary for Information Communication and Technology (ICT). Mpofu has been replaced by the outgoing Secretary for Finance, Jacob Mudenda, while Ziyambi Ziyambi, who was the Secretary for ICT, is now the Secretary for Legal Affairs. Patrick Chinamasa has been appointed as the…
THE country is bracing itself for more deportations of Zimbabweans from the United States of America, after Washington declared many locals there illegal immigrants. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspapert — the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Raphael Faranisi, confirmed yesterday that the US would soon deport…
THE Harare Metropolitan Province will this week host a high-level investment and business conference aimed at attracting both local and international investors to drive the capital’s transformation into a competitive metropolitan hub. The two-day conference, scheduled for September 24-25 at Heritage Village, Wesley, will run under the theme, “Building Bridges: Accelerating Investments towards the Attainment…
Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER THE ruling Zanu PF says it is now up to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to determine whether his term of office will be extended beyond 2028. This comes as Zanu PF’s powerful provincial chairpersons also remain dead set on achieving the ruling party’s goal to keep Mnangagwa in high office beyond 2028….
PREPARATIONS for the Zimbabwe–China Tobacco Expo, Africa’s premier tobacco showcase, are now at an advanced stage as China Tobacco International leads global…
CHURCH leaders are pleading with the international community to cancel Zimbabwe’s external debt burden of nearly US$15 billion. Marking International Peace Day yesterday, the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) said doing this would free up resources for critical sectors that include health and education. “We urge international partners to consider debt cancellation to alleviate…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER THE High Court is set to hear a contested matter regarding the estate of the late Harare Provincial Affairs minister, Oliver Chidawu, where his wife, Spiwe, is challenging the distribution of properties they reportedly amassed together. When Chidawu died in 2022, he left a will that bequeathed an 80 percent…
