HARARE – Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo yesterday made an impassioned plea to pharmacies to stop selling drugs in US dollars but charge in local currency. Moyo told senators that he was consulting Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi on the best way to help patients. “We…
HARARE – South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, pictured, has called on the European Union (EU) to remove sanctions on members of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite and said the country has turned a “wonderful corner”. The EU maintains a travel and economic embargo on several Zanu PF officials, top military figures and some government-owned firms. The sanctions…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said there will be no room for corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen in the privatisation of struggling State-owned companies, part of wide-ranging reforms set in motion by President Emmerson Mnangagwa since he came to power. A former banker, Ncube has been tasked with turning around State companies that…
HARARE – In yet another tragic and horror road accident, 42 people were burnt beyond recognition on Thursday evening, while 26 others were seriously injured when the bus they were travelling in caught fire and exploded near West Nicholson. It is suspected that the tragedy was caused by a leaking gas cylinder among the bus’s…
HARARE – Econet Brand Ambassador Kirsty Coventry, this week, joined Glen View and Budiriro communities in a clean-up campaign as the mobile operator continues with efforts to fight cholera. Armed with a shovel, clad in a white dust coat, sunny hat and a respirator, the Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation minister worked tirelessly to remove…
HARARE – An unmoved President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday insisted opposition leader Nelson Chamisa must appear before the commission of inquiry investigating the deadly August 1 shootings, which left at least six civilians dead in Harare. Mnangagwa’s warning came as Chamisa had suggested on Thursday that he would not appear before the inquiry — unless both…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday flew out to Addis Ababa to attend the 11th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union. The Assembly — the supreme organ of the Union that consists all the 55 heads of State and government of the AU — will consider and make decisions and declarations based…
HARARE – Veteran broadcaster and former ZBC Radio Services general manager John Masuku has been tapped as the spokesperson of the independent commission installed to establish what happened before an army crackdown on opposition supporters on August 1 in which at least six people were killed in post-election violence. Masuku, a versatile broadcast journalist and…
HARARE – Revenue collection systems for the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) and the Finance ministry must be interfaced to enhance accountability and transparency, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has said. In a report to Parliament, Chiri revealed that Zimbabwe’s revenue collection systems remain compromised as the ministry of Finance has no principal rights to view account collections…
HARARE – War veterans are pushing government for more money and a stake in the mainstream economy. The issue was revived in the Senate on Thursday when MDC Matabeleland North Senator Phyllis Ndlovu asked the Defence and War Veterans minister to explain what government was doing towards paying the war veterans more money as was…
