THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday said they have cleared the foreign currency allotment backlog at its auction trading system. This comes as the seemingly jinxed local currency has now gone way past the $1 000 mark against the much-coveted greenback on the black market.In a statement, RBZ governor John Mangudya said the move…
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday dismissed an urgent application filed by Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform (ZYAP) chairperson Tonderai Chidawa challenging the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec’s preliminary delimitation report, ruling that his case was not a pressing matter. His ConCourt application comes after he claimed Parliament ignored a letter that his lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, wrote to…
AUTHORITIES yesterday suspended the operating licences of two bus operators, Zebra Kiss and Rimbi Travel and Tours, after a road traffic accident that occurred along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway, Mashonaland East, on Tuesday, leading to the death of a passenger and injuring scores. Transport minister Felix Mhona said in a statement that the suspensions were with…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has introduced a “block management system” where it will embark on a door-to-door programme to ensure that all businesses comply with the tax payment and registration system. In a statement yesterday, Zimra said the door-to-door tax collection, which began early this month, would be carried out at all business premises…
SOME legislators have added their voices to calls to postpone this year’s national polls, saying this would allow the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to fix the flaws in its draft delimitation report, while also allowing the country to recover from Covid’s effects. This comes after the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) recently joined some opposition…
PARLIAMENT yesterday adopted its ad hoc committee report on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) preliminary delimitation report following a two-day heated debate that saw MPs demanding that the electoral body correct flaws raised by the legislators. The ad hoc committee report would be handed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa today at State House before he transmitted…
POLICE Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga, warned yesterday that law enforcement agents would not hesitate to shoot to kill violent criminals engaging in murders and armed robberies around the country. The emotional Matanga said this in Harare, at the funeral wake of Hwedza Police Station officer-in-charge, Inspector Maxwell Hove, 43 — who was allegedly shot and killed…
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe and EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited made the top 100 among Africa’s top 250 companies named by the African Business magazine. Every year the African Business top 250 companies survey charts the rise of innovative,strategic and resilient African Businesses that straddle the continent and that invest billions of dollars into Africa-wide strategies to…
Rutengo Ngara THE government is planning to review its agriculture sector target for 2025 from US$8.2 billion to US$11 billion, the Daily News has confirmed. Permanent secretary in the Agriculture ministry John Basera said the upward review of the target was because the agriculture sector had managed to achieve its five-year target of US$8 billion…
A FORMER police officer, Jaison Muvevi, who allegedly shot and killed three people in Wedza, last Friday, is set to appear back in court tomorrow after the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) obtained a warrant for further detention. The suspect was arrested in Mozambique on Monday while trying to jump the border before his extradition to…
