THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) says it has begun to witness welcome reductions in the prices of some basic goods — including cooking oil and flour — on the back of falling month-on-month inflation and the easing foreign currency parallel market. At the same time, many Zimbabweans who spoke to the Daily News yesterday,…
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa will rue squandering the opportunity to hold dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other political leaders when there was such a window. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend, Charamba also said that the dialogue ship had since “sailed”…
POLICE are open for engagement with pro-democracy groups and other organisations over their concerns regarding permissions for public gatherings and mass demonstrations in the country. This emerged last night during a riveting discussion on independent television station 3Ktv’s widely followed current affairs programme, Vantage, which featured national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi and the chairperson of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is mulling a review of the proposed high fees that presidential and legislative hopefuls are set to be charged when they take part in next year’s national elections. This comes amid an outcry from aspirant candidates who have described the US$20 000 and the US$1 000 that presidential hopefuls and parliamentary contestants…
AUTHORITIES insisted at the weekend that there was nothing amiss about the proposed high fees that presidential and legislative hopefuls will be charged to take part in the crunch 2023 national elections, saying “democracy comes at a cost”. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid opposition unhappiness about the new cost of participating in polls,…
THE ongoing elections for Zanu PF’s war veterans league are exacerbating the ruling party’s factional fights, with the polls almost turning violent in Mashonaland Central last weekend. This comes as the former liberation movement is currently constituting its newly formed ex-combatants’ league, ahead of Zanu PF’s elective congress which is scheduled for October 26 to…
GOKWE Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena who was arrested together with Cottco executives, in an alleged scandal that saw over US$5 million being siphoned from the firm, has been granted $200 000 bail and ordered to surrender title deeds as surety. Wadyajena is alleged to have acquired 25 trucks from Cottco money that was sent…
ZANU PF is cranking up the heat on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), with the ruling party reiterating yesterday that the new kid on the block should be excluded from next year’s crunch polls because it does not have a constitution. Speaking to the Daily News two weeks after the former liberation movement similarly…
AUTHORITIES are stepping up their efforts to stabilise the prices of basic goods in the country, with Treasury recently announcing further new measures to tame the rampant foreign currency parallel market. In this regard, Finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has temporarily suspended the disbursement of funds to all ministries, constitutional commissions and other government departments…
GOVERNMENT has committed to embark on radical economic changes, saying it is the only way for it to achieve its vision 2030 targets. In his opening remarks during the Zimbabwe Economic Development Conference in Victoria Falls yesterday, deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa, pictured, said there is a need for new strategies for the country to…
