ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe, the country’s leading telecommunications and technology firm, has released its half year results to August 31 in which the company reported a 186 percent growth in revenue to $1,1 trillion, with $400 billion (nearly 40 percent) of that amount going to statutory payments in the form of taxes and levies. The company’s…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube will prioritise social protection programmes when he presents the 2024 National Budget in Harare on Thursday next week. Speaking in the capital yesterday, Ncube also said authorities would continue to pursue policies that engendered the use of the under pressure Zimbabwe dollar, while also endeavouring to contain price hikes of basic…
By Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITER PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday received a preliminary land audit report from the Zimbabwe Lands Commission (ZLC), which, among other things, exposes cases of double ownership of farms, a situation against government policy of one person, one farm. The ZLC is a constitutional commission born out of Zimbabwe’s Constitution to oversee issues…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO BULAWAYO mayor David Coltart has appealed to the government through the Local Government ministry to declare the perennial water shortages in the second capital a crisis. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday on the sidelines of a council meeting, Coltart said if the city does not receive enough rains in…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Harare City Council (HCC) says it has a plan in place to remove street vendors in the central business district (CBD), but feels that the task is near impossible due to the growing number of informal traders. This comes after the government on Tuesday gave the council a seven-day ultimatum to…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country’s security agencies are key in Zimbabwe’s goal to attain an upper-middle income society by 2030. Addressing a graduation ceremony of joint command and staff course at the Zimbabwe Defence University in Harare yesterday, the president added that the peace prevailing in the country was also key for economic growth….
POOR Zimbabweans look set to endure another difficult festive season, as the prices of basic goods continue to rise amid the accelerating slump of the Zim dollar on the parallel market. Yesterday, the hapless local unit was trading at an average of 9 000 to the much-coveted American dollar on the black market, although it…
Ketty Nyoni STAFF WRITER nyonik@dailynews.co.zw THERE was chaos yesterday as Harare councillors voted for a new mayor, after Ian Makone was recently recalled by his party. In the end, ward 36 councillor Lovejoy Chitengu was elected the new mayor of the capital city — in a race which saw Zanu PF protesting his eligibility vehemently….
THE government says it will intensify its war on street vendors in Harare’s central business district in order to curb the cholera outbreak if the Harare City Council fails to remove them. This comes as last week, the government ordered the Harare City Council to remove the vendors as the cholera outbreak spreads across the…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) says it has deployed investigators to probe operations of driving schools and those found not complying with the laws will be closed. This comes as some Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) inspectors are accused of conniving with some driving schools, receiving bribes from people seeking driver’s…
