THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has partnered with the government and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in refurbishing the small-to-medium enterprises centre. The partnership was entered into in a bid to establish safe trading markets for women and youth entrepreneurs in the country’s secondbiggest city. According to latest council minutes seen by the Daily News…
Brandon Josphat and Brighton Muronzereyi BOTH consumers and business have expressed the fear that the prices of basic goods in the country will continue to spike. This comes after minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, gazetted a new statutory instrument at the weekend which compels exporters to pay their Zesa bills exclusively in foreign currency for…
By Ketty Nyoni PRESIDENTIAL aspirant and South Africa-based businessman Joseph Makamba Busha has justified the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) presidential nomination fee, saying it was a deterrent against fly-by-night politicians. This comes after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on Friday issued an order for Parliament to review, before June 16, Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 Electoral (Nomination…
THE Zimbabwe national ladies tennis team made a flying start to their Billie Jean Cup campaign after a 3-0 whitewash of Ghana in their opening tie at the week-long Africa Group III tournament at Nairobi Club in Kenya yesterday. The Zimbabwe squad is made up of the quartet of Rufaro Magarira, Sasha Natalie Chimedza, Tadiwanashe…
BY ASHLEY MOYO UPCOMING hip-hop artiste Young Rvito (YR), real name Brendan Masunda, is happy to have collaborated with award-winning rapper Maskiri on his new single Entertainer. He hopes the new track will go a long way in promoting his brand in the music industry. “It was great to collaborate with Maskiri, a legend in…
By Rutendo Ngara ZIMBABWE and Mozambique have established a tri-basin commission that will manage the Buzi, Pungwe and Save (Bupusa) river basins in an environmentally friendly manner. Exclusively shared by the two nations, the Bupusa river basins drain into the Indian Ocean. The three basins are situated in the Beira Corridor, a crucial commercial route…
By Emmanuel MarambeSPORTS WRITER PROSPER Matyire and Grace Zvarebwa won the U16 boys and girls title respectively at an oversubscribed Crystal Candy Development U16 tournament staged at Prince Edward School over the weekend. In what was a first for local chess, nearly 350 players attended the inaugural national tournament that attracted junior players from all…
WE HAVE said it and we will continue to pontificate it, we don’t believe in the economics of protectionism, neither are we disciples of price controls, but we feel strongly that recent economic developments demand urgent action from authorities to arrest the madness. Basic goods prices obtaining at the moment are not only unacceptable, but…
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian PM who bounced back from sex scandals and corruption allegations, has died aged 86. He died at…
Food prices in South Africa continue to increase at a startling rate, although the pace of acceleration is easing and possibly faster…
