SWITZERLAND has pledged US$200 000 for Bulawayo’s safe market spaces for vendors and modernising the city’s trading sites. This was confirmed by Bulawayo mayor David Coltart yesterday while speaking at a stakeholders meeting where he said the Swiss donation would improve trading and assist in decongesting the city. “The town clerk and I have met…
ELECTRICITY challenges affecting the country have had a negative impact on the operations of digital information centres across the nation, Parliament has said. This comes as the government introduced digital information centers, also known as Community Information Centres (CICs), to bridge the digital divide and provide access to information communication technology (ICT) services, particularly in…
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe (CZI) has implored the government to align local industry policies with global trends to boost economic development. The call was made over the weekend in Bulawayo by the CZI chief executive officer, Sekai Kuvarika, while speaking at a business event on crafting an integrated economic landscape where she said that analysing…
AT LEAST 2 600 farmers in Hauna, Honde Valley, Manicaland Province, are set to benefit from a fruit and vegetable processing plant established by the government in the area. This was confirmed by the minister of Small and Medium Enterprises Development minister, Monica Mutsvangwa, while addressing journalists in Harare at the weekend where she added…
Brandon JosphatCHIEF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will table a motion in Parliament this week on dialogue, as the party escalates its push for lasting solutions to Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic challenges. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — the leader of the opposition in Parliament, Sengezo…
BY RUTENDO NGARA AUTHORITIES are closely monitoring the security situation in India’s Punjab State, where Zimbabwe has many students studying at a local university. Punjab is among India’s three border states with Pakistan that are currently experiencing sporadic fighting between the two nuclear-armed neighbouring countries. A senior official at Zimbabwe’s embassy in India told the…
THE Rwandan government, through the ministries of Public Service and Primary and Secondary Education, seeks to recruit more than 150 Zimbabwean teachers in various fields of expertise. This comes after the two countries in 2021 inked an agreement for Kigali to recruit tutors from the southern African country to cover a skills gap. It also…
THE country’s legislators are owed over US$600 000 in unpaid sitting allowances spanning over the last eight months. This comes amid concerns by the MPs who are paid US$75 per sitting that they were now failing to meet their obligations such as paying their bills and utilities. This was revealed in the National Assembly last…
BY RUTENDO NGARA AN auditor employed by former Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono to audit his family-owned Valley Lodge property in Mutare told the court on Friday that Clark and Beverly Makoni siphoned more than 130 million RTGs, equivalent to US$100 000, because that is what they could only quantify. The auditor said they were…
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) Company has revealed that this year’s edition of the annual business expo generated business leads valued between US$296 million and US$379 million. The figures are based on responses from 154 participants who completed the ZITF’s online survey, comprising 94 exhibitors (61 percent) and 60 business delegates (39 percent). In…
