© A RECKLESS kombi driver who drove on the wrong side of the road during peak hour has been jailed for an effective two years. Beni Beaven, 28, was also banned from driving for life. [GoogleAd] Harare magistrate Yeukai Chigodora convicted Beven of reckless driving and failure to acquire a re-test. In passing sentence,…
© COMMUTER omnibuses here have hiked fares following the latest fuel price increase. [GoogleAd] The kombis moved from $1,50 to $2 as operators moved to cushion themselves against the continuously rising costs. The fare hike comes at a time a huge chuck of the commuting public has turned to the much cheaper Zupco buses which…
© The huge public expectations raised by devolved government in Zimbabwe have turned into disappointment, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has said, after government failed to avail US$310 million budgeted in the National Budget to facilitate devolution of power to provincial councils. [GoogleAd] The Constitution proposes devolving the budget to 10 new…
© Zesa is owed more than $1 billion by municipalities and customers, a debt which continues to grow, forcing the struggling State-run power firm to subject Zimbabweans to the worst power cuts in several years. [GoogleAd] Debts are dragging Zesa down, Energy minister Fortune Chasi said yesterday, adding those not paying electricity bills and are…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has castigated foreign countries for what he termed interference in the way the country should manage its natural resources, especially the ballooning ivory and rhino horn stockpiles. [GoogleAd] Mnangagwa revealed at the recently-held African Union and United Nations Wildlife Economy Summit in Victoria Falls that the country was sitting on stockpiles…
© OPPOSITION MDC has blamed “calculated intimidation and vote buying” for its embarrassing loss of Nyanga ward 26, a claim that Zanu PF scoffed at as a case of “sour grapes”. [GoogleAd] The ruling party’s Bisset Mapeta won the poll with 397 votes against the MDC Alliance’s Vincent Bopoto’s 236. Zanu PF is in high…
© MASVINGO High Court judge Neville Wamambo has freed MDC deputy chairperson Job “Wiwa” Sikhala on $5 000 bail. Alec Muchadehama, who is part of the legal team representing Sikhala, yesterday confirmed the development. [GoogleAd] “He (Sikhala) has been released on $5 000 bail. As part of the bail conditions, he was ordered to reside…
© WITH current Zesa outages running for 18 hours per day, mobile phone network operators have said they might be forced to switch off base stations as they face huge operational bills due to alternative power sources they have to resort to. [Adz] Operators have been forced to resort to diesel-run generators to power the…
© THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has posted marginal gains, curtailing a two-week losing streak with stocks still trying to find direction following the scrapping of the multicurrency regime and the reintroduction of the Zim dollar among other exchange control and monetary tightening measures. [GoogleAd] The initial reaction to the policy measures were such that there…
© ZIMBABWE’s telecoms sector has suffered a $37,1 million decline in revenue for the first time ever in the past four years. [GoogleAd] The latest Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) sector performance report for the first quarter of 2019 indicated the shocking major revenue decline, projected to increase in the second quarter….
