HARARE – Business leaders and analysts have warned that the country’s deepening economic rot will continue to ravage long-suffering Zimbabweans in 2019 — amid dire predictions that the first quarter of the new year will be particularly difficult, the Daily News can report. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa also warned the nation during the…
HARARE – Business leaders and analysts have warned that the country’s deepening economic rot will continue to ravage long-suffering Zimbabweans in 2019 — amid dire predictions that the first quarter of the new year will be particularly difficult, the Daily News can report. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Zimbabwean farmers have bemoaned the high interest rates being charged by banks after the economy’s dollarisation. Commercial Farmers’ Union (ZCFU) president Wonder Chabikwa said the interest rates being charged by banks are stifling the growth of the agricultural sector. He said the interest rates for agricultural loans have been ascending since the dollarisation…
HARARE – Government should make efforts to pay civil servants salaries in foreign currency, MDC president Nelson Chamisa has said. This comes as the on-going strike by doctors has entered its fourth week, after the government failed to address their grievances and demands — resulting in operations at public health institutions being severely affected by…
HARARE – Drone operators are now required to register their aircrafts with Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz), the Daily News can report. The drones fall under the multi-rotor regulations that were recently gazetted in Statutory Instrument 271 of 2018 13:16 of Civil Aviation (Remotely Piloted Aircraft) Regulations. “No person shall use a public road…
HARARE – Government’s current recruitment freeze has led to a serious shortage of medical lecturers at tertiary institutions, an official has said. In a report presented by the Parliamentary portfolio committee on Higher and Tertiary Education, the chairperson Daniel Molokela-Tsiye urged Parliament to assist in lifting the freeze to enable universities and colleges to employ…
HARARE – Fifteen years after performing at what used to be the ‘hallowed” venue of musicians of yesteryear — veteran Chimurenga music maestro Thomas Mapfumo — returns to Mushandirapamwe Hotel in Highfield for an emotional homecoming show tomorrow evening. The 73-year-old musician will hold an all-night show which he yesterday described as “returning to my…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda said there is no tiff between him and his chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa. Matemadanda told Daily News that the much talked tiff between himself and Mutsvangwa doesn’t exist. “…We are not fighting with Mutsvangwa, those are fabricated stories, and we are not at loggerheads…
HARARE – Government has introduced cotton growing at the Bulawayo Kraal Irrigation Scheme in Binga with 100 hectares earmarked for planting the so-called white gold this season. The scheme which is situated about 10 kilometres from the Zambezi River is one of the biggest irrigation projects in Matabeleland North. Matabeleland North irrigation officer Charles Makhula…
HARARE – The hearing where the striking medical practitioners sought leave to appeal at the Supreme Court has been moved to today (Monday) after lawyers representing the Health Service Board (HSB) failed to appear in court on Saturday. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZDHA) filed an urgent chamber application at the Labour Court seeking permission to…
