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THE row over Parliament’s controversial US$40 000 housing loans to legislators is escalating within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), which will hold a crunch meeting in Harare today between party leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, and the defiant MPs. Several party legislators who met Chamisa on Friday told the Daily News yesterday that the CCC…

By Brandon Josphat THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says it will maintain tight monetary measures and will only review them in the first quarter of 2023, in order to control inflation and enhance economic stability. In a statement yesterday, RBZ governor John Mangudya said the central bank’s monetary policy committee resolved last week to maintain…

By Blessings Mashaya THE Special Anti-Corruption Commission (Sacu) has directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate possible corruption by Harare City Council (HCC) officials and some police officers over land ownership in Mufakose. The directive came after the Youth in Business Housing Trust, which developed residential stands on Lot 2 Subdivision B of Subdivision…

By Brandon Josphat AUTHORITIES have given industry the green light to begin negotiating and importing electricity from regional countries in order to keep the sector running during the country’s worsening power outages. This comes after the country is facing severe daily 15-hour load shedding because Zesa is failing to meet the demand for electricity. Speaking…

ALTHOUGH Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs remain keen to meet with President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of the 2023 national elections, this is not likely to happen, presidential spokesperson George Charamba has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Charamba said the window of opportunity for such a meeting had passed, and Mnangagwa was now…

By Brandon Josphatjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF won three of the five council by-elections that were held in Midlands and Matabeleland North provinces over the weekend. According to the results released yesterday by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), in Binga ward 20, Liyando Muleya of Zanu PF got 945 and Crispen Munkuli of CCC got 546.In ward…

By Regis Chingawo GOVERNMENT is set to disburse US$20 million to empower smallholder irrigation schemes across the country’s eight rural provinces starting January next year. Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube at the weekend said in addition the government had received US$30 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that would assist farmers to start…