© 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]…
© President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to return Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra)’s properties seized by government in the 80s. Mnangagwa made…
The National Assembly yesterday passed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s $10,85 billion supplementary budget amid fierce objections from opposition benches that saw MDC lawmakers stage a walkout before bloc voting on the spending plan. Led by former Finance minister Tendai Biti and independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa, the opposition backbenchers demanded that Ncube converts the 2019…
LEGISLATORS from across the political divide have demanded accountability for $3 billion allocated to Command Agriculture between 2017 and 2018 that is feared stolen. Debating Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s supplementary budget, MPs said the government needs to do more to address the issue of financial leakages. [GoogleAd] The Budget and Finance parliamentary portfolio committee chaired…
© ONE of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s most loyal backers, Eddie Cross, has attacked the government — accusing it of “practising the worst kind of corruption” and struggling to keep the country afloat. In a scathing assessment of the country’s economic and political state, Cross also shredded Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s mid-term budget statement — which he…
© IN AN interesting development — given the military’s previous positions and pronouncements — the Zimbabwe National Army has broken its silence on the country’s current political and economic crisis, saying it wants to see Zimbabweans united, regardless of their political affiliations. At the same time, the army said, welcomingly, that it would be apolitical in…
© MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, has blocked his legislators from receiving diplomatic passports saying government should first issue the travelling documents to ordinary Zimbabweans. Thousands of Zimbabweans are on the passport waiting list as the financially constrained government fails to meet the demand for the precious document. [GoogleAd[ Zimbabweans on a daily basis cross…
© MDC youth assembly secretary-general Gift Ostallos Siziba, who stands accused of inciting public violence, was back in court yesterday for routine remand and update of his case. Siziba was remanded to September 2 after the State failed to furnish him with a trial date. On his last court appearance on July 24, prosecutor Sebastian…
© OVER 10 fuel service stations in Bulawayo and Zvishavane have been warned by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to stop selling fuel in foreign currency, with Zera threatening to withdraw their licenses immediately if they do not comply. This comes after it was alleged that the service station were selling fuel in US…
