© 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…
EDITOR — Zimbabweans have been struggling to make ends meet as the economy continues to take a down turn. We all know that the Zanu PF government has been largely responsible for creating the mess that we find ourselves in today. The party’s populist policies since independence in 1980, corruption, greed among the leadership and…
© THE MDC’s Bulawayo province has applied for permission from the Zimbabwe Republic Police here to hold a street demonstration next Monday. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pleaded with the masses to be more patient as his government seeks to turn around the country’s sickly economy. On the other hand, MDC president Nelson…
© THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expressed disappointment at the government’s bureaucracy which it says has grossly affected service delivery in the face of hyperinflation currently ravaging the country. BCC finance director Kimpton Ndimande told Finance minister Mthuli Ncube here during a mid-term budget review breakfast meeting on Friday that the volatile economic situation…
© Zimbabweans facing hardships to feed their families amid the country’s deep economic crisis, are increasingly abandoning pets because they no longer can afford to care for them, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Manicaland chapter has said. This comes as flooding from Cyclone Idai killed up to 15 000 livestock…
© Worsening fuel shortages are dampening spirits at the country’s premier travel and tourism showcase that will feature local and international exhibitors including national tourism boards, embassies, international airlines, leading hotel chains and government ministries. The Sanganai/Hlanganani World Travel Expo to be hosted from September 12 to 14 is a chance to take the…
Zanu PF youths in Kadoma have been kicked out from land belonging to businessman Jimayi Muduvuri’s Macsherp Holdings. This comes after the Commission of Inquiry into allocation, occupation and ownership of land in and around urban local authorities has ruled that Macsherp is the legal owners of the 100 hectare piece of land. [GoogleAd] The…
