© A TOP Bulawayo businessman who allegedly defrauded a fellow prominent businessman of US$1,4 million in a botched stand deal was yesterday denied bail. Ismail Moosa Lunat allegedly sold a stand to Toppers Uniforms managing director Mahomed Zakariya which he sold to another person in 2005. [GoogleAd] Yesterday, provincial magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa ruled that Lunat…
© CIVIC and church leaders have called for the unconditional lifting of sanctions, arguing they completely missed their mark and are hurting the general populace. [GoogleAd] Civic and Church Leaders national coordinator Abigail Mupambi told a press conference in Mutare last Friday that targeted sanctions failed to reign in the extravagance of their intended targets…
© FORMER National Social Security Authority (Nssa) general manager Elizabeth Chitiga has lost her bid to be reinstated after the High Court ruled her dismissal was above board. High Court judge Nicholas Mathonsi last week dismissed Chitiga’s application, after handing a judgment upholding the pre-mature termination of her contract of employment in April last year….
© GOVERNMENT currently has hundreds of thousands worth of unclaimed monies in the Guardian’s Fund as numerous beneficiaries are yet to claim their inheritances from several pension funds, it has emerged. [GoogleAd] The Guardian’s Fund protects and manages money generally received from inheritance on behalf of persons such as minors, persons incapable of managing their…
© NATPHARM is currently struggling to meet the demand of local suppliers, its managing director Flora Sifeku told an HIV/Aids Thematic Committee on a fact finding visit at the company yesterday. This comes as government’s move to procure medication in RTGS$ has backfired as local suppliers are now demanding payment in foreign currency in order…
© FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube and MDC vice president Tendai Biti — who held the Finance portfolio during the inclusive government between 2009-13 — have engaged in a war of words on Twitter after the latter censured. [GoogleAd] Ncube for failing to manage the economy. Biti and Ncube have been at each…
© THE National Association of Social Workers Zimbabwe (NASWZ) has raised concern over habitual and unwarranted engagement of nonsocial workers in professional roles meant for qualified social workers. [GoogleAd] NASWZ said the public remains at risk under the wings of people undertaking social work roles without the necessary training and standard skills. Speaking at a…
© ZANU PF activist and lawyer Tinomudaishe Chinyoka — who has been shortlisted for interviews for Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption commissioners — has filed an urgent chamber application seeking to change the interview structure because the current one would put President Emmerson Mnangagwa into disrepute. [GoogleAd] Chinyoka has been shortlisted among 38 people to be interviewed by…
© BULAWAYO residents face another punishing water-shedding schedule for the next two months as the local authority struggles to fix non-functional water pumps at its waterworks. [GoogleAd] In January this year, the city council introduced a 36-hour water-shedding regime due to critical water levels caused by pumping problems. The shedding was later moved up to…
© SCHOOLS have become sites of repression while teachers are now targets of intimidation and violence, making the environment unsafe for children, a Research Advocacy Unit (Rau) report has revealed. [GoogleAd] This comes as Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure was allegedly abducted in view of his wife and children and…
