MOTORISTS here have for the past week endured stock outs of fuel supplies, indicating a worsening fuel situation in the petroleum industry. So bad has been the situation that even the pump stations that sell in foreign currency have virtually gone dry. The few that had the product yesterday had long, winding queues. [GoogleAd] Some…
CONSUMERS of telecommunications services must brace for a significant increase in tariffs, which will further eat into their pockets. The director-general of the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz), Gift Machengete, revealed yesterday that his board of directors will be meeting in Harare today, in a crucial meeting that might set new tariff…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday came face to face with the simmering bitterness of the people of Matabeleland related to the Gukurahundi atrocities of the early to mid 1980s. This came after Mnangagwa met representatives of 66 civil society organisations from the region who operate under the banner of Matabeleland Collective — in a robust meeting…
THE intense jostling for positions within the main opposition MDC, ahead of the party’s May elective congress, is escalating — with chaos marring the 20-year-old political outfit’s ongoing restructuring exercise, the Daily News can report. This comes as the race for positions at the looming congress is getting hotter and more bitter by the day,…
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) will now run up to 2028 following an extension of its operational period by the High Court. The NPRC, which was supposed to come into force in 2013, was only operationalised through an Act of Parliament in January 2018, with its mandate scheduled to end in 2023….
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has channelled a budget of over $800 000 to probe and address challenges being experienced in accessing identity documents. Speaking during a press conference on Wednesday, ZHRC chairperson Elasto Mugwadi said this initiative was important in helping those failing to exercise their rights due to lack of identity documents….
The corporate and diplomatic response to Cyclone Idai has been strong and swift and is on track to surpass all previous relief efforts. Corporations and diplomats have donated millions in cash, and more millions in products and services, and corporate relief efforts are on track to dwarf or exceed the $50 million put up by…
Areas devastated by Cyclone Idai last week are continuing to count the storm’s cost as the number of confirmed dead rises. At least 139 deaths have been caused by the cyclone that swept across Buhera, Chimanimani, Chipinge, Makoni, Mutare rural and urban, Mutasa and Nyanga — a number expected to increase further. [GoogleAd] Officials are…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa made his way to Manicaland this week to take in the damage from Cyclone Idai and meet with officials responding to the disaster, but the trip was sullied by featherbeddings flown in for his comfort, including leather sofas. Mnangagwa, who cut short his visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to fly…
SUSPENDED Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) financial intelligence unit director Mirirai Chiremba has been removed from remand in a case he is charged with criminal abuse of office. The State consented to proceed by way of summons when ready for trial. Chiremba had applied for refusal of further remand arguing that he is employed and…
