Rumbidzai Ngwenya THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is set to fork out $3,7 billion to fund the impending 113 National Assembly and local government by-elections that are set for early next year. This comes as the preparations for polls are gathering pace with Zec set to strike off over 22 000 individuals from the voters’…
THE launch of a new USSD based remittance service for clients in South Africa by Access Forex could not be better timed….
Rumbidzai Ngwenya ABOUT 20 percent of married men in the country are victims of gender-based violence (GBV) in the form of emotional abuse, Anti-domestic Violence Council chairperson and director of Padare Kelvin Hazangwi has said. In an interview with the Daily News in Harare yesterday, Hazangwi said as much as men were the biggest perpetrators…
BUSINESSMAN Jayesh Shah has once again lost his High Court bid to cancel a title deed to a piece of land in Mt Pleasant, Harare, that was given to Equity Properties (Equity) by the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) after it settled a US$1.6 million loan it contracted from the defunct Interfin Bank. This comes as…
DIVERSIFIED financial services group Old Mutual (OM) is still considering listing on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFSE) as it seeks to put the financial interests of its investors at the fore. Addressing journalists on the sidelines of the Palm River Hotel launch in Victoria Falls last week, Old Mutual chief executive Samuel Matsekete said…
MANY Zimbabweans have urged authorities to resist the temptation to impose a fresh hard national lockdown after a new coronavirus variant was recently identified in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana. People who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said the government should, instead, intensify its vaccination programme to give the country’s recovering economy a chance to heal further,…
Melisa Chatikobo HARARE City Council will intensify its preservation of wetlands in order to help the local authority reduce the resources it uses on procuring water treatment chemicals. HCC spokesperson Michael Chideme said pollution of water bodies had increased the chemicals needed for water purification. “We have set aside $83.5 million for the preservation of…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has attributed the sharp increase in ratepayers who are settling their bills on time to the implementation of its new credit control policy. The policy was designed to assist ratepayers in managing their arrears while improving the council’s cash flow position. The local authority has been operating without a documented…
Melisa Chatikobo THE Livestock & Meat Advisory Council (LMAC) has urged the government to decentralise the selling of maize to reduce the cost of stockfeed for smallholder farmers. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, LMAC economist Reneth Moyo said allowing farmers to sell grain to each other would significantly reduce the cost of livestock. Moyo…
Melisa Chatikobo THE Covid-19 pandemic had a disastrous effect on the production of free-range chickens as the sub-sector dropped by 30 percent. According to the Zimbabwe Free Range Poultry Association (ZFRPA), the country had a stock of 59 million free-range chickens in the 2017/18 season, which had since declined to 42 million. “There was a…
