Suspended ZANU-PF chairpersons cleared?
Joel Biggie MatizaTHE three ZANU-PF provincial chairmen who were suspended in February this year for alleged misconduct are likely to bounce back after they were cleared by the National Disciplinary...
View ArticleNSSA guns for ex-banker
Former ReNaissance Financial Holdings Limited group chief executive officer, Patterson Timba…Patterson Timba claims retributionTHE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has filed criminal charges...
View ArticlePatrick Chinamasa unveils ‘pro-production’ budget for 2017
Finance Minister Patrick ChinamasaFINANCE Minister Patrick Chinamasa has unveiled a budget which seeks to push production frontiers across all sectors of the economy but still forecast a deficit and...
View ArticleRBZ slashes bank charges to between 1-1,25 percent
RBZ Governor John MangudaTHE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has slashed bank withdrawal charges to between one percent and 1,25 percent of amounts withdrawn on Automated Teller Machine (ATMs) and Over...
View ArticleCivil service restructuring has already started – Chinamasa
Finance Minister Patrick ChinamasaGOVERNMENT has already begun to restructure the country’s civil service in an exercise expected to half the public sector wage bill by 2020, Finance and Economic...
View ArticleUnity in Zimbabwe? What unity?
President Mugabe and the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo.By Tendai MakaripeAFTER signing the historic unity accord on December 22, 1987, the late vice president Joshua Nkomo famously retorted: “Unity...
View Article2017 spells gloom for education sector
Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Lazarus DokoraFORMER Tanzanian leader, the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere is credited for coining the phrase “Jewel of Africa”, in reference to Zimbabwe about 36...
View ArticleDrama kings and queens of 2016
Manicaland Provincial Affairs Minister, Mandi ChimeneBy Tendai MakaripeAN anonymous thinker once said: “Drama doesn’t just walk into your life. You either create it, invite it or you associate with...
View ArticleInvestors demand mineral rights
Minister of Mines, Walter ChidhakwaA GOVERNMENT official has indicated that potential investors for the rehabilitation of the country’s dilapidated road network and infrastructure were demanding...
View ArticleJudiciary caught up in ZANU-PF’s succession fights
Vice President Emmerson MnangagwaTHE internecine succession wars in the ruling ZANU-PF party have engulfed the selection of a new chief justice (CJ) to replace Godfrey Chidyausiku who retires in...
View ArticleZANU-PF gears for 2018 polls
President Robert MugabeTHE ruling party has splurged about US$20 million on all-terrain vehicles as it prepares for the 2018 polls in which the incumbent will be seeking an eighth term as President. At...
View ArticleCompanies face closure
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya… payments gridlock cripples economyA payments gridlock within the banking sector threatens to ground the economy, already troubled by a liquidity crunch...
View ArticlePresident Mugabe attacks Jonathan Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education, Jonathan MoyoPRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has publicly reprimanded Higher and Tertiary Education, Jonathan Moyo for using the social media to air his party grievances. While...
View ArticleZanu-PF confirms Mugabe as 2018 election candidate
President Robert MugabeZIMBABWE’S governing Zanu-PF party has confirmed President Robert Mugabe as its candidate for the 2018 elections.Mr Mugabe, who is 92, has been in power since independence from...
View ArticleRBZ raises bond notes withdrawal limit, releases more notes
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has increased daily and weekly bond note withdrawal limits.THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has increased daily and weekly bond note withdrawal limits to US$100 and US$300...
View ArticleZANU-PF colossus rolls into Masvingo town
President Mugabe and First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe arrive for the official opening of the Zanu-PF 2016 Annual People’s Conference in Masvingo last week.(Picture by Eliah Saushoma)A GROUP of awestruck...
View ArticleEscalating road carnage disturbing
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Joram GumboA SPIKE in fatal road traffic accidents this year owing to bad roads, reckless driving and poor vehicle maintenance has left safety...
View ArticleUncertainty intensifies as 2017 beckons
Finance Minister Patrick ChinamasaUNCERTAINTY deepened in the final weeks of 2016 due to a deteriorating economic crisis, blamed by critics on mismanagement and high levels of corruption in government....
View ArticleNSSA in fresh RTG bailout
NSSA board chairperson Robin VelaTHE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) is planning to give a fresh US$14 million loan to the Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG), as it battles to stabilise the...
View ArticleSuccessionists put on leash
President Robert MugabeIN spite of the intense pressure brought upon him to act on ambitious ZANU-PF bigwigs engrossed in the party’s nasty succession fights, President Robert Mugabe has opted for a...
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