© FORMER vice president (VP) Phelekezela Mphoko, pictured, is now likely to get his terminal benefits, more than a year after he was booted out of government. [GoogleAd] Mphoko assumed the VP post in 2014 and lost his job in November 2017 following a military takeover — two years short of a full five-year term. The…
© THE business community is engrossed in scenario building after it was caught unawares by the currency reforms introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on Monday. [GoogeAd] Political analyst Pius Pigou said there is a sense that the multi-currency regime was smuggled under the cover of darkness. He said a significant amount of Zimbabweans, including those…
© CONSUMERS were yesterday keeping their fingers crossed after prices for most basic commodities stagnated as traders, including foreign currency (forex) dealers, digested the impact of currency reforms introduced by government. [GoogleAd] On Monday, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019 which discontinued usage of the multi-currency regime. Immediately, the Zimbabwe dollar…
© CIVIL servants have demanded that government reviews their salaries in line with the prevailing economic situation after their US-dollar salary demand was overtaken by events following the administration’s decision to ban the multi-currency system. [GoogleAd] The civil servants had all along been demanding to be paid in US dollars which the government said it…
© FORMER Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has claimed his appeals seeking quashing of rape conviction and sentence are being manipulated by Judicial Service Commission (JSC) officers. [GoogleAd] Kereke has struggled to no avail to be released from prison where he is serving a 10-year jail sentence for raping his wife’s niece at gun point. He…
© ZIMBABWE National Water Authority (Zinwa) has warned that most of the country’s major dams are fast losing water — with the majority of them declining to levels below 70 percent. [GoogleAd] This comes as the country is currently paying the price of a precipitous decline of water levels in Kariba Dam which has resulted massive…
© ZIMBABWE desperately needs to start trading its huge stockpile of ivory worth a whopping US$600 million but that would lead to confrontation with the Convention of on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which among other things enforces bans on rhino and ivory trade. [GoogleAd] The need to trade in ivory would enable Zimbabwe to…
© THE late retired Army general Vitalis Zvinavashe’s son Richard has been barred from entering his late father’s Tynwald property after his step mother who enjoys usufruct rights over the house dragged him to the High Court for trespassing. [GoogleAd] Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba granted the application for an interdict filed by the late general’s widow Margaret…
© AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure was yesterday released from prison after a Harare magistrate cancelled a warrant of arrest against him. [GoogleAd] Masaraure, who is on remand on allegations of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government allegedly failed to report to Hwedza Police Station on June 14 as ordered by the court. …
© ACTIVIST-CUM-cleric Evan Mawarire and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union president Peter Mutasa’s freedom bid hit a brick wall after a Harare magistrate yesterday quashed their application for refusal of further remand. [GoogleAd] Mawarire and Mutasa are accused of plotting to topple the government after they posted video online inviting members of the public to engage…
