HARARE – After a near-farcical start, temperatures rose a notch up yesterday at the government’s commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence — which ended up with the army killing at least six civilians — when the probe team was challenged to name the person who deployed soldiers onto the streets on that…
HARARE – After a near-farcical start, temperatures rose a notch up yesterday at the government’s commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence — which ended up with the army killing at least six civilians — when the probe team was challenged to name the person who deployed soldiers onto the streets on that…
HARARE – The US remains the world’s most competitive economy, whilst Zimbabwe has fallen from 124th to the 128th, according to the World Economic Forum (Wef)’s annual rankings issued this week. The Wef said Zimbabwe slipped in the ranking due to worsening infrastructure, a weakening of the country’s public institutions especially health and concerns about…
HARARE – The late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai’s estate has been hauled before the High Court over the late founding leader’s alleged failure to pay a man who claims to have helped the opposition leader stitch a coalition deal for the 2013 general elections. Initially, Moreprecision Muzadzi, had cited the late Tsvangirai, as one of…
HARARE – Lawyers representing Village Inn, a hotel in Nyanga, and judicial manager Shepherd Chimutanda have denied allegations of a forceful take-over of the hotel by Tatipano Properties, a firm linked to Nyanga South member of the National Assembly Supa Mandiwanzira. The lawyers say the acquisition was done above board. In papers filed with the…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has ordered the retrial of a former Midlands State University student accused of retweeting a message denigrating Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba. Night Tawona Shadaya, 25, initially pleaded guilty after he was charged with criminal insult charge for retweeting a message besmirching Chigumba in the aftermath of the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s gold mining firms exported $130 million worth of bullion in August, a decline of 21 percent on the prior month. Gold is the single largest export earner in the southern African country, whose economy is flat lining as a result of lack of investment, electricity shortages and high cost of capital. Gold…
HARARE – Diesel demand has been strikingly increasing over the last few months, a leading financial research firm has said. The government has said the gain is due to regional truckers taking advantage of the lower cost of fuel in Zimbabwe relative to the region when the RTGS to USD parallel exchange rate is factored….
HARARE – The landmark Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ruling declaring unconstitutional the draconian Public Order and Security Act (Posa) is likely to open floodgates of protests, as agitated Zimbabweans are itching to get into the streets to express their discontent over the increasingly failing economy, analysts, unions and opposition groups have said. Under Posa, public gatherings…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has warned service stations against hiking fuel prices or withholding its sale for speculative reasons and threatened to cancel licences of service stations engaged in the rent-seeking behaviour. This comes amid imbalanced supply of fuel which has seen the emergence of long queues while service stations located in…
