© Chantelle Muteswa, ex-girlfriend of property and gold tycoon Frank Buyanga, has approached the High Court in a bid to reclaim custody of their five-year-old child, Daniel Alexander. Muteswa’s urgent chamber application seeks the return of the minor child to Muteswa within 12 hours of Buyanga being served with this order. [GoogleAd] Muteswa, who has…
© GOVERNMENT has put into effect the upward review of various transport-related tariffs, including tollgate, learners and driver’s licence and vehicle registration fees. [GoogleAd] Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, while announcing the mid-term budget review last week, announced a sharp increase in the prices of electricity and a plethora of taxes while proposing a review of…
© ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) recently conducted one National Assembly and two local authority (Ward) by-elections in Lupane following the passing on of Zanu PF office holders. [GoogleAd] Zesn deployed long-term observers to all wards in Lupane East from the pre- through to the post-election period. Zesn director Rindai Chipfunde-Vava said observers reported a peaceful…
© The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC wants a hard strike against graft at Nssa, urging the total banishment of corrupt practices at the State pension fund. [GoogleAd] The MDC push to punish culprits came only days after then Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) — becoming the first senior government…
© MDC MPs are crying foul over what they allege to be unfair treatment by National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda after he barred them from attending Thursday’s Mid-Term Monetary Policy review last week after they pitched up late. Suspected State security agents and riot police refused opposition legislator’s entry into Parliament when Finance minister Mthuli…
© WOMEN were yesterday urged to unite, rise up and serve in professional executive boards in order to climb the corporate ladder and succeed. Speaking at the Inaugural Women Accountants Conference held in the capital, managing partner — governance Advisory Services, Tsitsi Mutasa said while women face a lot of barriers like cultural expectations among…
© The shortages of fuel intensified after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube increased excise duty on diesel and petrol by 45 percent, Parliament has been told. The increase in excise duty, made in the midterm fiscal policy review, came as the country is presently battling worsening fuel shortages which have seen petrol peaking at $9,06 per…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has urged Zimbabweans to show confidence to the proposed new Zimdollar, which could be ushered in by December. Gripped by an intractable currency volatility crisis, coupled with skyrocketing prices — government, by year-end, plans to reintroduce the Zimbabwean dollar which it discarded in 2009 in favour of a multicurrency regime that…
© GOVERNMENT is reviewing upwards the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) given to legislators, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said. Ncube told the National Assembly on Tuesday that he is going to add another $10 million in CDF to be divided among legislators. “We are looking into this issue of the salaries, the sitting allowances and…
© Thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg, face deportation after the city’s mayor, Herman Mashaba declared war against “undocumented foreign nationals.” Mashaba launched a blitz against foreigners on Wednesday. This follows chaos which engulfed Johannesburg’s inner-city last week, when law enforcement agencies attempted to confiscate counterfeit goods from informal traders. [GoogleAd]…
