THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is deeply concerned by widespread tax evasion and resistance to compliance from both formal and informal businesses, severely eroding the national tax base. Zimra Commissioner-General Regina Chinamasa told the parliamentary portfolio committee on Finance last Friday that the revenue collector is seeking stronger legal backing and enhanced enforcement mechanisms to…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed the Treasury to release ZiG400 million monthly to clear the outstanding US$50 million debt for the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) programme. Beam, launched in 2001, provides national assistance to orphans and vulnerable children in schools, and the government currently owes public schools. “The pleas from our people, especially you,…

PARLIAMENT has called on the government to allocate funds in the 2026 National Budget for the construction of expecting mothers’ shelters at all district and provincial hospitals. This appeal was made in the National Assembly last week by Bulawayo Province MP Thokozani Khupe, who said such shelters have been proven to reduce maternal and neonatal…

THE ruling Zanu PF’s powerful women’s league yesterday amplified the ongoing calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his stay in power to 2030. Speaking at the party’s headquarters in Harare, the league’s secretary for administration, Monica Mutsvangwa, said they wanted Mnangagwa to remain at State House beyond 2028 — in line with Zanu PF’s…

muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES will acquire more Covid test kits and medicines, amid a recent surge in the number of people infected by a new strain of the respiratory illness in other countries. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, the deputy minister of Health, Sleiman Kwidini, confirmed the government’s renewed focus on surveillance and testing for the disease….

muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have closed the Zone Gardens Nightclub beer outlet which is located at the Zanu PF district offices in Pomona, Harare, over noise pollution. In a letter dated July 8, 2025 addressed to the city of Harare, police and Zanu PF Harare provincial chairman Godwills Masimirembwa, the secretary for Presidential Affairs, Tafadzwa Muguti, said…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to shun tribalism and regionalism. Speaking at the burial of late national hero Sydney Gata at the National Heroes Acre in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa called for national cohesion to be promoted at all cost as Zimbabweans were related in one way or the other. “Gata’s revolutionary consciousness grew as…

muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE late national hero, Sydney Gata, was an institutional developer who rescued the country’s energy sector from total collapse, the minister of Energy, July Moyo, has said. Gata died on Thursday after a short illness and will be buried today at the National Heroes Acre. Speaking in Harare yesterday during the late national hero’s…