THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says the 2022 proposed budget of $24 billion, which will see tariffs being hiked by 200 percent, is justified considering the country’s economic situation. The recent proposal divided councillors during a meeting held on Tuesday, with the city fathers, however, eventually agreeing on the 200 percent hike. “The 216 percent…
A UNITED Nations (UN) agency — United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) — is seeking to raise at least US$66 million to bankroll humanitarian needs in the country caused by the effects of Covid-19, floods and economic challenges. This comes as the country’s economy has shown signs of recovery on the backcloth of a bumper harvest,…
BULAWAYO-BASED Ingwebu Breweries is still reeling from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, with management revealing failure to quickly adapt to fast-changing market dynamics has had a knock-on effect on the business. Ingwebu, a Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU), has been making losses over the years, prompting the shareholders to consider privatising the brewer. However,…
NATIONAL Foods Holdings Limited is set to install a state of the art US$5 million flour milling plant at the firm’s factory in Bulawayo meant to ensure an uninterrupted supply of the product in the country’s southern region. In a statement accompanying financial results for the year ended June 30, the diversified agro-industrial concern revealed…
A DISTRAUGHT Mangwe family has petitioned the commissioner general of police, Godwin Matanga, demanding answers on the disappearance of a six-year-old boy amid claims the police bungled the investigation. The boy, Zenzo Ncube, reportedly disappeared in February last year, after being taken from his maternal grandmother’s home by his father, Anderson. The grandmother’s family, through…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has no policy governing the treatment of war veterans employed by the local authority, amid claims some were being purged and ill-treated. This comes as the government ordered a probe into the ill-treatment allegations with Local Government minister July Moyo last month dispatching a six-member team to Bulawayo….
AT LEAST 220 district schools’ inspectors (DSIs) are set to be appointed countrywide as the government moves to consolidate its monitoring and supervision trajectory in learning institutions. This comes at a time the government is in the process of implementing a revised curriculum, known as the Continuous Assessment Learners Activity (Cala), widely seen as a…
ZAPU leadership has finally cleared Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, to contest the party’s presidential elections at its congress at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre later this month. This comes as efforts to block Sibangilizwe, through a National People’s Council’s (NPC) recent resolution which stated that a presidential candidate should have…
THE government says the Continuous Assessment Learning Activity (Cala) in schools is meant to provide inclusive and quality modern education that will leave no learner behind. The initiative, which is part of the revised curriculum, would see learners getting marks for tasks and projects given by their teachers during normal learning, with Cala constituting 30…
ZIMBABWE International Trade Fair (ZITF) deputy chief executive officer Stella Nkomo says Bulawayo residents should grab the opportunities brought by the annual exhibition as it gives them a chance to expand their businesses. This comes as some Bulawayo residents, in an online post-expo analysis, cried foul over the “prioritisation” of Harare-based companies to showcase their…
