HARARE – Mazowe Rural District Council (MRDC) has dragged former Zanu PF MP for Mbare Constituency Tendai Savanhu to the High Court for failing to pay over $23 000 land development levy. In the application, MRDC is the applicant, while Savanhu and Nyachura Farms (Private) Limited are cited as first and second respondents respectively. “The…
HARARE – Government has approved part privatisation of the People’s Own Savings Bank (POSB) to enable the bank to raise capital, enhance service delivery and improve operational efficiency. The move is expected to enable the financial institution to fund the country’s struggling productive sectors. In a general notice published in yesterday’s a government gazette, government…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is strengthening voluntary compliance measures in order to tackle rampant tax evasion, the tax collector’s chief Faith Mazani, has said. This comes as the issue of tax corruption and evasion has become complex countrywide with experts likening it to organised crime. Zimbabwe’s compliance rate is only 25 percent,…
HARARE – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for the review of the cholera vaccine following revelations that the infectious disease which broke out in Harare this month is multi-drug resistant. WHO’s disease prevention and control officer Anderson Chimusoro told the Daily News yesterday that the specialised health agency of the United Nations had…
HARARE – Government will provide $500 and two bags of rice to cater for funeral arrangements for each family that lost loved ones in a bus accident which occurred in Polokwane, South Africa. At least nine Zimbabweans perished in the Limpopo Province of South Africa in a road crash involving an Intercape bus travelling from…
HARARE – CBZ Holdings Limited has successfully raised the $75 million required by government to fund the purchase of maize from farmers for the 2018 buying season. In a notice issued yesterday, the bank which is the financial advisor to the Agricultural Marketing Authority (Ama), said the grain bills were fully subscribed for. “The Agricultural…
HARARE – Members of the public have been invited to submit information on the politically-motivated violence that rocked central Harare on August 1, resulting in the death of seven people. In a statement, the secretary to the commission, Virginia Mabiza, said the submissions would be protected by law and will be received on a “without…
HARARE – Government will continue to train teachers at various tertiary institutions despite its failure to absorb them owing to a recruitment freeze placed by the Public Service Commission. This was revealed by Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira during a question and answer session in the Senate on Thursday. He was responding to…
HARARE – Parliament has given newly-elected Chegutu West Member of Parliament Dexter Nduna the green light to continue his duties as legislator notwithstanding a court challenge to his electoral victory. This was after opposition MDC legislators had sought to have him barred from making contributions in the National Assembly, saying the Electoral Court is still…
HARARE – The Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda will soon write to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking him to reprimand Cabinet ministers who are skipping the question time, scheduled for every Wednesday. Only a few ministers pitched up for the gruelling session on Wednesday, leaving legislators fuming at what they deemed to be “contemptuous…
