HARARE – Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (Private) Limited (ZBC) has dragged its acting head of News and Current Affairs Tazzen Mandizvidza to the High Court, demanding $1 083 362,09 from him, following numerous financial irregularities which were prejudicial to the company. ZBC filed the court summons after Mandizvidza failed to pay back the money. The High…
HARARE – The health and Child Care ministry has set new requirements for citizens looking to take up a general nurse training course from May 2019. In the new requirements widely circulated to government hospital matrons and tutors, Health and Child care permanent secretary Gerald Gwinji said prospective nurses must have passed English Language, Mathematics,…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has announced a reconfiguration of party structures, including doing away with Chitungwiza and Midlands South provinces to align it with the national architecture of 10 provinces. Unlike the ruling Zanu PF party whose provinces reflect the country’s constitutional 10, the MDC structure has always had 12 provincial executives since…
HARARE – Government is mulling reinstating the collection of vehicle licence fees to local authorities to help them bankroll road maintenance, the National Assembly has been told. The fees are currently being collected by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara), which then disburses road maintenance fees to local authorities on an allocative basis. Responding to…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s desperate bid to balance the government’s shambolic books by raising the State’s revenue through an unpopular new tax is facing a sharp court challenge. This comes after a prominent civic leader filed an urgent application in the High Court yesterday, seeking to reverse the minister’s controversial two cents per…
HARARE – Liquid Telecom will invest $1,5 million in the first phase of repairing and revamping Harare’s broken sewer pipes and water reticulation infrastructure. Liquid Telecom, which is majority owned by Econet Wireless Global, has partnered with government agencies to help in the fight against the cholera outbreak which has already claimed 54 lives. The…
HARARE – Many retail outlets — especially in urban areas — are running empty following the recent panic-buying of basic goods by fearful Zimbabweans who were unsettled by government’s much-criticised new economic stabilisation measures. The new policy measures did not only trigger a dramatic collapse of the country’s surrogate currency — the bond note —…
HARARE – A Hurungwe-based pastor, Chenjerai Kangausaru, has returned to full-time politics following the Zanu PF politburo’s decision to readmit him back into the ruling party. The Family of God Church pastor — who was expelled after contesting in the Hurungwe East Constituency as an independent candidate in 2013 — was re-admitted back to the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s stock market hit a record high last week, propelled by local investors seeking a safe haven in an economy suffering acute shortages of foreign exchange, a leading financial research firm has said. Equity Axis said in the week under review, stocks shot up astronomically going beyond the recent all-time high set in…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has commended the “calm and peaceful” environment in which candidates of the three political parties contesting the Mutoko North by-election filed their nomination papers. The Nomination Court proceedings for the Mutoko North by-election were held at the Marondera Magistrates’ Courts last weekend. More than one candidate was…
