POLICY inconsistencies are hurting the country’s economic revival as potential investors tend to develop a wait-and-see attitude, the Bulawayo Business Forum says. Speaking during a post budget breakfast meeting hosted by the Daily News in conjunction with the Confederations of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) in Bulawayo on Monday, top banker and BBF representative Herry Heresy said…

MINISTER of Finance Mthuli Ncube has admitted that the regulatory costs for formal businesses in the country are excessively high, indicating that the government is working on measures to reduce the cost of doing business. Ncube made these remarks on Monday during a post-budget breakfast meeting hosted in Bulawayo by the Daily News in conjunction…

Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR THE government is cranking up its war on smugglers, as they prejudice both local businesses and the fiscus, the minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube says. Speaking in Bulawayo yesterday, at a wellattended post-Budget breakfast meeting that was hosted by the country’s most influential newspaper, the Daily News — in conjunction with…

A US$20 000 grant has been made available by the government to fund climate-resilient agriculture and rural economic growth across the country. The grant would be accessed by smallholder farmers across selected provinces in Zimbabwe for agricultural projects under the Smallholder Agriculture Cluster Project (SACP). SACP is a government initiative aimed at promoting market-led, climate-smart…

THE late former vice president Phelekezela Mpoko will be buried today at his farm in Bulawayo. Mphoko died in India where he was receiving treatment on December 6. His remains were repatriated to Harare on Thursday before being flown to Bulawayo aboard an Air Force of Zimbabwe plane on Friday afternoon. It was accompanied by…

Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR BULAWAYO councillors are livid over persistent sewer bursts affecting the city despite the local authority hiring four sewerage management companies to tackle the challenge of flowing sewer. US$1 million was set aside for the three-year contract. In August this year, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) engaged Nambs Investments, Tokologo Technical, Saltavay…

Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR GLOBAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) says it is intensifying its advocacy to combat the growing incidence of obstetric fistula among girls and women in the country. Obstetric fistula, a condition that causes severe incontinence due to childbirth complications, disproportionately affects young girls and women mainly in marginalised areas. The…

Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR BULAWAYO’s water crisis has become so severe that city fathers are shifting their focus to drilling boreholes in the short term to mitigate the situation. In this regard, the local council has approached geologists from neighbouring Botswana for assistance with the latest borehole drilling technology. This comes as Bulawayo is battling…