EDITOR — The Chitungwiza Residents Trust (CHITREST) and the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) out rightly condemn the actions by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on the 27th of January 2014 at Unit L Community Hall in Seke South, Chitungwiza when they disrupted a peaceful residents meeting and arrested five residents’ leaders. The arrest of…
HARARE – Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo is trying to undermine the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) by overturning all key municipal decisions made by the party. The decision to reverse the suspension of his crony, Harare town clerk Tendai Mahachi, for refusing to furnish the mayor with a salary schedule of their obscene salaries…
HARARE – Some brilliant defiant scribe crusaders I knew in Zimbabwe and Zambia included Willie Dzawanda Musarurwa, Kelvin Mlenga and Farayi Munyuki. They all died relatively young. Not all were necessarily toppled by their defiance of a system built on acquiescence to orders from above. But it would be amazing if their demise did not…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s move to extend the $100 million minimum capital requirements deadline for banks to 2020 is a good development in light of the prevailing liquidity challenges obtaining in the country. The introduction of the $100 million capital requirement in 2012 was a noble idea by the central bank not…
EDITOR — It is now clear that all parastatals and ministries are in need of serious forensic audit in the wake of the Psmas, ZBC and Airzim finacial mismanagement shenanigans. These are but small fish in huge corruption-laden pond. This country is being milked dry by such corrupt practices yet our government remains unmoved. It…
EDITOR — The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday disrupted a residents’ meeting held at Unit L Community Hall in Chitungwiza around 17:45 hours. The meeting was organised by Chitungwiza Residents’ Trust (Chitrest) as a platform to give its members and residents a chance to get feedback after Chitrest had represented residents at an all-stakeholders meeting…
HARARE – According to the United Nations Development Programme poverty index, a poor person is one who lives below $2 per day. If such individuals could manage to just get the basics in life they would truly find happiness and purpose in life. This explains the importance of basic needs such as food, housing, shelter,…
HARARE – Unfolding scandals at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) and Air Zimbabwe point to deep-seated opacity that has provided a fertile breeding ground for unbridled corruption. Even more frightening, these deepening and shocking scandals also reflect a poor public accounting system, and the complicity of central government officials…
EDITOR — I wonder why the government seem to be taking a laid back approach to these insensitive salaries that are being earned by chief executive officers in parastals. Why cant our incompetent government institute a thorough audit of all the parastatals and ministries and get to the bottom of these endless salary scams. The…
LONDON – In recent weeks, we have, with outrage, learnt of the salaries of chief executives of some of our state enterprises. Disturbingly, the salaries seem incommensurable with performances of the institutions they run. ZBC chief executive Happison Muchechetere earns a total of $40 000. Cuthbert Dube, PSMAS group chief executive, earns a basic monthly…
