© MDC students council has bemoaned exorbitant off-university campus rentals that are being charged in United States dollars. [GoogleAd] The council said it was unacceptable that the US dollar pricing continues even after government introduced an interim currency, the RTGS dollar, in a bid to end a decade of dollarisation that saw the US dollar…
© FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is up for some grilling by Parliament on why government chartered a plane from Singapore last year for former First Lady Grace Mugabe to attend her mothers’ funeral. [GoogleAd] President Emmerson Mnangagwa facilitated the return of former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace from Singapore for the funeral, attracting…
© The 2019 University of Zimbabwe Research week came to an end on Friday with exhortations to researchers to ground their research in solutions to the issues that need to be solved. [GoogleAd] Themed, “Championing Demand-driven Research and Innovation for Industrial and Societal Solutions: Rallying Towards Vision 2030 Through Education 5.0”, the symposium was…
© SUSPECTED security agents abducted and tortured an MDC youth leader and a pro-democracy activist in pre-dawn raids yesterday — further raising tensions ahead of tomorrow’s mass protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure government, the Daily News can report. [Adz] The barbaric acts, which occurred regularly during the tenure of former president…
© CYBER-SAVVY retailers and supermarkets are offering relief to Diasporans by creating facilities to allow direct payments for groceries, equipment and hardware which they will deliver to given addresses. [GoogleAd] The facilities also allow some recipients to get their remittances in local currency from the shops. Diasporans have previously been fleeced of their remittances. Zimbabweans outside…
© A CHIPINGE teacher was on Tuesday evening robbed of his red Honda Fit in Chipangayi by two men who lured him by feigning to hire him. [GoogleAd] Nyasha Matanda, 39, a teacher at Maronga Primary School was robbed of his vehicle at gunpoint by two unknown men who had approached him requesting to hire…
© Makoni residents cry foul over hiked feesTHE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC is lining up another demonstration in Mutare on August 22 as they pile up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government over the country’s failing economy. [GoogleAd] This will follow protests in Harare, Bulawayo and Gweru where the opposition party has already notified police of…
© A SECOND police officer, who is suspected to be part of a gang that was caught on camera while raiding Drayton Farm in Harare, appeared in court yesterday charged with robbery. [GoogleAd] Fredrick Moyo, who is stationed at Harare Central Patrol Unit, allegedly robbed the farm owners, Mark Creighton and Philip Butler of $72…
© Government has said it has acquired the new equipment and consumables required to upscale the production of passports. Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema said the Registrar-General’s Office now has the capacity to produce 800 passports per day. [GoogleAd] “Government will continue to mobilise further resources in order to ensure that the daily maximum production…
© GOVERNMENT has imposed harsh punishment for those convicted of making illegal power connections in a bid to deter the sharply rising criminal activity. [GoogleAd] The government imposed a steeper 10-year jail term on people that make illegal power connections and vandalise electricity equipment, Energy and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi has said. Prior to…
