HARARE – War veterans have threatened to “deal” with business people who are they alleged were making massive profits through “unjustifiable” increase of prices. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa more than doubled the price of fuel, with the sharp hike triggering a wave of price increases. Mnangagwa – flanked by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube,…
BULAWAYO – Anti-riot police here had to be called to disperse hundreds of disgruntled protesters who heeded calls for a national shutdown protest against deepening economic crisis in the country. The protest was mooted by local activists and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday evening announced a sharp…
HARARE – A Zimbabwean businessman has urged government to raise wages in a bid to prevent the meagre income of public sector workers becoming a source of anger for citizens. In a letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seen by the Daily News, businessman Frank Buyanga said the hike will preempt “the game by your opposition.”…
HARARE – Having started the year engulfed with a myriad of problems — from fuel shortages, soaring prices of goods and services, shortages of drugs to labour disputes — the Daily News on Sunday’s Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda sought comments from a number of analysts just to find from them where they think President Emmerson…
HARARE – A former aide of ousted president Robert Mugabe has spilled the beans from his foreign base, saying Zanu PF has serious divisions that do not always play out in public. Lawrence Kamwi, who served as head of former first lady Grace Mugabe’s office and principal private secretary to the president also insinuated that…
HARARE – In a panicky move which analysts described as an act of desperation — and which economic experts said would not resolve the country’s debilitating fuel shortages — President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government sharply and immediately increased the prices of fuel last night. As a result, and with effect from midnight last night, the price…
HARARE – In a panicky move which analysts described as an act of desperation – and which economic experts said would not resolve the country’s debilitating fuel shortages – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government sharply and immediately increased the prices of fuel last night. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, could run out of water by 2045 as the city’s main water reservoir faces a serious siltation threat, said a professor of environmental studies at the University of Zimbabwe Christopher Magadza. With increasingly prolonged droughts worsening the water shortages, Mugadza said Harare must shore up its water supplies by building…
HARARE – Less than a decade after hyperinflation wiped pensions and savings, Zimbabwe is hogging the limelight for the wrong reasons once again. The southern African nation has been named among nations with the world’s highest inflation rates. Steve Hanke, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, said in a tweet…
HARARE – Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe secretary-general Raymond Majongwe regrets the ousting of former president Robert Mugabe in a November 2017 soft coup. He posted on social media how regretful citizens had become about the military-led change of government in November 2017 before telling the Daily News on Sunday that Zimbabweans had hoped for…
