By BRANDON JOSPHAT AUDITOR-GENERAL Mildred Chiri has exposed the rot in local authorities across the country characterised by poor governance around issues of contract management and mismanagement of assets, among others. In her 2021 Financial Year report on local authorities presented to Parliament last week, Chiri said local authorities were signing contracts in which the…
BY HAZEL MARIMBIZA THE World Bank (WB) says Zimbabwe can largely benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) if trade barriers are removed. This comes after Zimbabwe was recently among four member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) which received WB capacity building support aimed at eliminating non-tariff…
BY NASH MKOKWAYARIRA Chicken Inn …………..….. 1 Whawha ……………..……. 0 WHILE a shot at the Castle Lager championship seems at this stage like mission impossible, Chicken Inn yesterday showed they are determined to fight to the end. Brian Muza scored the solitary second half strike as the Gamecocks moved into second place with 51 points…
MUSIC has a lot of benefits and does great things to us in our social, economic and political spheres. Celebrity artists like Adele, Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen have publicly stated about the power of music in aiding mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. William Shakespeare wrote that “music can raze out the…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has intensified its training of aspiring female politicians ahead of the 2023 elections in order to ensure equal participation of both genders in the highly contested political domain. This was revealed by ZGC commissioner Mercy Nyangulu yesterday at the close of a five-day workshop held in Masvingo. “The commission’s thrust…
EXQUISITE Cars (Private) Limited’s proprietor and youthful businessman Victor Matiyenga has taken the car industry by storm after launching a brand-new motor…
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has appealed to the government to train all actors in the justice delivery system on ethics and integrity in order to root out corruption. In a report on the country’s justice delivery system from 2018 to date, the LSZ recommended the need for strengthening and providing resources to the…
By Brandon Josphat THE debate around high nomination fees for candidates seeking public office in next year’s elections has spilled into Parliament after the Institute for Young Women’s Development petitioned the august House to intervene. This comes after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) recently hiked nomination fees, which will see presidential candidates paying US$20 000…
By Hazel Marimbiza THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BUPRA) yesterday petitioned the city fathers over exorbitant rates, estimated bills and United States Dollars-pegged rates. This comes at a time residents have in recent weeks demanded from the municipality justification of the exorbitant bills which they have been charged since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic….
By Dionne Kanyowa A GLEN Norah man, who murdered his girlfriend after hitting her in the head several times with a hoe after she had called off their relationship, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail by the High Court. Justice Munamato Mutevedzi convicted Collen Tinashe Jamu for what he termed a “macabre and…
