HARARE – Government has given some schools them green light to increase their tuition fees and levies to enable them to survive the harsh economic climate, the Daily News can report. The fee increases, approved on a case-by-case basis, compound pressures on struggling parents and guardians whose earnings are being eroded daily by the rising cost…
HARARE – A cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the education sector, amid fears schools might not open tomorrow after teachers vowed not to report for duty until their employer agrees to pay them in United States dollars (USD). [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – As Zimbabwe hurtles towards into the New Year, the majority of the country’s population is bruised economically, socially and politically. The “Daily News on Sunday’s Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda spoke to several analysts to hear their views on what they think should be the key priorities for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government…
HARARE – Meagre budget allocations are delaying Zimbabwe’s switch to digital television from the traditional analogue signals. Settlement Chikwinya, the acting chairperson of the Parliamentary portfolio committee on Information, Publicity and Media Services said there was a shortfall of about $62 million in the ministry’s bid of $100 million for the completion of the digitalisation…
HARARE – Government has been prejudiced in excess of $3,5 billion by company directors who shut-down their firms in order to avoid payment of taxes only to re-establish themselves under different trading names. This was revealed by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube in the National Assembly last month during the debate on the Finance Bill. Ncube…
HARARE – A number of years ago, I was privileged to attend a conference on micro lending conference held in India. After the conference, I travelled to Delhi with the chairperson of a global agency that was funding 250 000 small business start-ups every year around the World. In Delhi he took me to a…
HARARE – Official statistics show that most of the traffic road accidents recorded in Zimbabwe have been due to human error. Despite commendable efforts by various players including the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) and the police, to reduce the carnage on our roads, human error remains the dominant factor in ruthlessly ending precious lives on…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s petrol price, which currently stands at $1.38/litre for petrol, is the highest in the region contrary to claims by Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo. Gumbo claimed in an interview with a local daily this week that foreigners in transit are refuelling in Zimbabwe because the local petrol price is lower…
HARARE – While the festive season was bleak for most Zimbabweans who failed to drive to various tourist destinations dotted across the country owing to fuel shortages, there was a destination that had a cure for that. For those visiting Bvuma’s Leopard Rock Hotel during this festive season, the facility had come up with a…
HARARE – The cash-strapped government has amended the Finance Bill to enable it to tax foreign satellite service providers such as Multichoice. Parliament has acceded to the amendment of Section 14 of the Income Tax Act so that fees and charges that are paid to foreign satellite service providers are deemed as income sourced from…
