Andile Tshuma THE government has commenced a crop damage control assessment survey, amid fears that over 2.5 million hectares of crops in the 2021-2022 season are under severe threat from moisture stress. Officials from the ministry of Agriculture said all provinces were in the process of analysing data on the crop situation, following a prolonged…
Melisa Chatikobo ZIMBABWE’S ever decreasing number of formally employed people as compared to those in the informal sector is costing the country in tax remittances, a University of Zimbabwe senior lecturer has said. Speaking during a Zimstat webinar on the fourth quarterly labour force survey for 2021 yesterday, Honest Zhou implored policy makers to come…
EX-FINANCE minister Ignatius Chombo’s trial in a case he is accused of defrauding the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday failed to take off at the Harare Magistrates’ Court to allow the Constitutional Court to hear it first. Chombo was set to stand trial in the matter he is accused of accessing a $14 billion…
ZANU PF co-vice president, Kembo Mohadi says continued peace and unity in the country will see Zimbabwe achieving much-needed social and economic development. Addressing a Zanu PF rally in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, on Saturday, Mohadi also accused the opposition of sowing seeds of discord among Zimbabweans — by allegedly and continuously whipping up emotions around…
Andile Tshuma BULAWAYO residents and parts of Umzingwane and Lookout Masuku army barracks will go for an indefinite period without water following the collapse of major plant components at one of the city’s treatment plants. Bulawayo City Council has blamed the fault on failure of old infrastructure that needed replacement. The local authority could not…
OPPOSITION legislator Job Sikhala has clashed with the State over the delay in putting him on trial which he said were taking a toll on him and demanded that he is either prosecuted or freed. Sikhala is accused of publishing falsehoods that are allegedly prejudicial to the State following a Facebook post he allegedly made…
THE first leg of the voter registration exercise ended on a low note in Matabeleland region, with provinces recording far below expected numbers of new registrations. The first leg of the biometric voter registration exercise ended last week, with the second leg expected to commence on April 11. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has expressed…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has gagged his lieutenants from addressing supporters during his ongoing star rallies ahead of the March 26 by-elections, purportedly to avoid sending conflicting messages. This comes amid simmering divisions in the newly formed party over whether or not to accept former MDC vice President Thokozani…
THE discord within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over whether or not to accept former MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe, into its ranks continues to rage on. And with the usual cast of vocal party gatekeepers — albeit almost all of them never having been elected even for goat-skinning duties in their villages —…
RUMBIDZAI NGWENYA AT LEAST eight women die every day in Zimbabwe whilst giving birth, the United Nations Population Fund in Zimbabwe (UNFPA) has said. Speaking in Harare at the handover ceremony of US$1.3 million worth of donated medical equipment to strengthen emergency obstetric and neonatal care in Zimbabwe last week, UNFPA country representative Esther Muia said while…
