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HARARE – More details have emerged of rabble-rousing influence peddler William Gerald Mutumanje’s recent hatchet job on top Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) officials and businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei — all of whom he has fingered in corruption and the illegal trading of foreign currency — before backtracking spectacularly. This comes as the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission…

HARARE – The Baines Imaging Group has indicated that it will not be charging shortfalls or additional payments from patients on medical aid. In a statement published yesterday, the medical services group that conducts services such as CT colonography, cardiac CT/CCS; ultrasound scan; echography ultrasound, among other services, pledged its commitment to service delivery. “In…

HARARE – Harare residents are demanding that the city avail the 2019 draft budget to see if their input was factored in. Community Water Alliance national coordinator Hildaberta Rwambiwa wrote to Harare mayor Herbert Gomba saying in the past years, council has not been honouring the provision of the Urban Councils Act on availing the…

HARARE – The Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) will host a high-level national conference today to discuss the key human rights issues which Zimbabwe needs to look into in the next five years in relation to access to justice, gender, corruption, peace and reconciliation, with a flagship speech by Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga’s celebrity lawyer…

HARARE – Nelson Chamisa has been hailed by deaf groups for providing sign language interpretation on stage during his latest rallies. Chamisa, who addressed a bumper crowd at a rally held in Beitbridge last weekend, was flattered as having scored a historic first by having rallies that did not marginalise the deaf community. Deaf Zimbabwe…

HARARE – Embattled Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) leader Walter Magaya has poured his heart out about his legal woes, but said the silver lining was that government has agreed to put his controversial HIV/Aids drug through clinical tests to ascertain its safety and authenticity. Speaking at his Waterfalls church during a Friday service…

HARARE – Zimbabwe must drop bond notes and adopt the rand as the major instrument of trade after prices of imported commodities from South Africa shot up by more 1 000 percent between September and October, former Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada has said. The main cause of price hikes is the…

HARARE – Bakers say they have been forced to increase the price of bread due to a five-fold rise in input costs. The price of bread rose marginally to $1,40 from $1,10 last week, after government committed to avail to the bakery industry at least 80 percent of its monthly foreign currency requirements from a…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will soon revise again under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s controversial two cents per dollar transaction tax — which caused widespread panic in the country when it was introduced last month. This comes after the Daily News accurately reported at the time that when Ncube announced his tax that…