© ENERGY and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi has painted a bleak future for the country’s energy sector, which is blighted by shortages of electricity and fuel. Chasi told Parliament on Thursday that power utility, Zesa Holdings was bleeding due to sub-economic prices. [GoogleAd] Zesa has been unable to effect a viable tariff increase because…
EDITOR — Trade is a very important industry in every part of the world. It is simply the trading of something for something else. This can be one good for another good, one good for money, one good for a service, a service for a good, money for a service, etc. Trade can be explained…
© IN A development that is set to expose government’s hypocrisy, the department of Research and Specialist Services in the ministry of Lands has started denominating its prices in United States dollars (USDs). In a notice to its customers, the department said prices for its services will be denominated in US dollars or be charged…
© A FEW weeks ago, Joram Gumbo was one of the most quoted ministers in the press, not entirely for the right reasons. Until his recent reassignment from the Energy ministry to the President’s Office, Gumbo’s track record was fraught with accusations of protecting corrupt individuals, especially those who worked under his ministry’s purview. [GoogleAd]…
© MULTITUDES of people are today expected to descend on Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North for the burial of the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa. Dabengwa passed on last week after a long battle with a liver-related ailment. The Zapu leader was declared a national hero by the Zanu PF government, but his family chose to…
© THE overwhelming way in which people in Zimbabwe and beyond are mourning the loss of liberation war stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa is yet another reminder that genuine heroes are just that; they don’t need to be validated by some committee of one political party which might not be necessarily made up of informed people. [GoogleAd]…
© THE fall of MDC heavyweights at the party’s just-ended congress has substantially eliminated threats to Nelson Chamisa’s leadership, thus enabling the 41-year-old politician to focus more on keeping the ruling Zanu PF party on its toes, the Daily News can report. After ascending to the top job within the MDC in February last year…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday officially launched the State Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz), which he says will eliminate corruption from the country’s procurement processes. Praz, which was formed last year as a replacement for the State Procurement Board, came with new procurement procedures governing the awarding of tenders. [GoogleAd Under the new procedures,…
© HARARE West MDC Member of Parliament Joanah Mamombe was yesterday arraigned in court over allegations of presenting a false residential address to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). [GoogleAd] Mamombe allegedly provided the false address during the National Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) exercise in February last year. Using the alleged false address, Mamombe contested for…
© MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) on Wednesday grilled Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, over his budget surplus merriments which they said are being contradicted by the current state of the economy. Speaking in Parliament Ncube insisted government has been recording budget surplus courtesy of the austerity measures. [GoogleAd] However MPs grilled him questioning the logic…
