HARARE – The CEO Eatout Movement attracted a bumper crowd of company executives who turned up at Hellenic Sports Club last weekend to — among other things — serve meals for free to the homeless. Founded by Henry Ngoni Chigama last year, to shine the spotlight on the plight of the homeless — organisers said…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court(Con-Court)’s landmark court ruling against draconian protests legislation opens a new chapter for human rights, Amnesty International has said. This comes after the Con-Court overturned Section 27 of the Public Order and Security Act (Posa), which prohibits demonstrations without prior authorisation from the Zimbabwe Republic Police. Handing down the judgment, Rita…
HARARE – A public hearing on the August 1 violence entered a third day at a hotel in the capital yesterday, with Zanu PF supporters claiming that the army cannot be blamed for the election unrest that turned deadly as soldiers opened fire on opposition protesters, saying the MDC Alliance should take full responsibility for…
HARARE – UNISON – a United Kingdom labour union — has tasked its government to urge Zimbabwean authorities to respect workers’ rights. This comes after several trade union activists, including Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa and secretary-general Japhet Moyo were arrested for attempting to demonstrate against the two percent transactional tax…
HARARE – Relocated Harare vendors operating from an open space at Coca-Cola Corner along Seke Road in Graniteside are facing hard times as the rainy season approaches. Vendors who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said they had been “dumped” at the dusty site which is still under construction and inaccessible to their regular customers….
HARARE – Opposition kingpin Tendai Biti has lashed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for his “wrong economic prescriptions” for the country. This comes after Ncube’s recent policy measures — which include the introduction of an unpopular two cents per dollar transaction tax — were roundly rejected by long-suffering Zimbabweans who accuse the new Treasury chief of…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has urged the government to be receptive to the reform demands of the opposition and Western powers — as this will enable Zimbabwe to access help from overseas companies and multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has urged the government to be receptive to the reform demands of the opposition and Western powers — as this will enable Zimbabwe to access help from overseas companies and multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) has set up small finance banks aimed at giving loans to civil servants who struggle to get finance from traditional banks. The State medical insurer has been given approvals by the Reserve Bank for small finance bank permits. Psmas operations manager Kenneth Gandawa told Equity Axis the…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is set to receive a $500 million loan from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a move meant to arrest the sliding official foreign currency reserves and provide much-needed breathing space to the new government. This comes as Zimbabwe is in the throes of worsening cash shortages, businesses closing,…
