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Melisa Chatikobo PARLIAMENT has recommended the arrest of the chairperson of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ), Tafadzwa Musarara, on allegations of misappropriating US$28,2 million from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) that was earmarked for the importation of wheat. This comes after the parliamentary portfolio committee on Agriculture spent months last year gathering…

LARGE scale gold producer, Sabi Gold Mine, in Zvishavane targets to increase its monthly production from 20 to 50kg of bullion gold by next year after a new local investor injected US$19 million.  After shutting down in 2014, the mine was re-opened in 2017 when a new investor – Chandiwana and Partners – came on…

CITY fathers here are fuming over the decision by the government to transfer its health workers to the government payroll, arguing the move will result in a complete takeover of the city’s primary health care services.  This comes as the government recently announced that it has started implementing its decision to transfer health workers from…

THE government confirmed yesterday that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has set aside April 22 next year as the tentative date for the holding of all outstanding by-elections. Should these special polls go ahead then, this will see 117 parliamentary and local government vacancies being filled following either the death or recall of incumbent legislators…

Melisa Chatikobo  THE government has secured a US$35.7 million loan to cushion small holder farmers against the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.  The funding secured from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for the Smallholder Agriculture Cluster Project (SACP) would see the government provide zero interest loans to communal farmers.   Service charge is set…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, is pleased as punch with how his trip to the United Kingdom (UK) this week went, and is anticipating significant diplomatic and investment gains for Zimbabwe in the coming months and years. Addressing hordes of his supporters who welcomed him back in Harare yesterday, after he attended a major global climate…

THE country should brace for more hot spells with temperatures forecast to peak in the high 40s, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned.  MSD agricultural meteorologist Benjamin Kwenda yesterday told the Daily News that some areas had already recorded a maximum of 45 degrees Celsius, with the trend expected to continue. “There were hot spells around…

THE government has accused local authorities of sabotaging the country’s road rehabilitation programme by holding onto funds and misusing them at the expense of service delivery. Responding to questions from legislators during a question and answer session in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Transport minister Felix Mhona, pictured, said the central government was contemplating taking…

POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for armed suspects who allegedly robbed a 65-year-old pensioner of US$1 000  in Kumalo suburb near the United Bulawayo Hospitals on Wednesday. According to police, the gun-toting gang, travelling in a Honda Fit, also made off with his cellphone. It is alleged that the victim, whose name has been…

O PPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, wants to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa again in a bid to expedite the country’s much-talked about…