BUSINESS NEWS

RBZ doubles cash imports to $100m

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has doubled cash imports to $100 million per month as the central bank tries to ameliorate the prevailing cash shortages as well as meet rising demand from recoverin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa works miracle crowds

ELECTIONS have always been a numbers game. With this in mind, ZANU-PF seems to be taking this numbers game seriously. It started in earnest in Masvingo, then it moved to Gokwe and yesterday, Bindura m...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Khupe is allergic to violence

MDC-T leader and one of the four female presidential candidates in the forthcoming harmonised elections, Dr Thokozani Khupe, has promised to end all forms of violence if elected into office.The 54-yea...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa can't even advertise even on trees

Zanu-PF is paying for political adverts being aired by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), while the MDC Alliance is crying wolf over unfair coverage by the national broadcaster because of fa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

More jobs on the way, claims Mnangagwa

GOVERNMENT has lined up multiple economic stimulus programmes that are set to create thousands of decent jobs as the new political administration makes headway in putting the country back on track to ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa scoffs at Chamisa's ballot paper demands

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has scoffed at opposition demands regarding the ballot paper for this month's crunch elections and insisted that his disgruntled rivals cannot stop the vote going ahead.Ad...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Dabengwa's warning

ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has challenged opposition parties to block "the continued militarisation" of the ruling Zanu-PF party.The liberation war veteran warned that a Zanu-PF victory in this month...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Brazilian wigs weave hairdressers out of business

WHILE most women are celebrating the coming in of the wig-trend, which apparently has made it easy to look good even on a bad hair day, hairdressers are crying foul over loss of business.Wigs come in ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Kana Hospital builds $70 000 mortuary

The new morgue, which accommodates more than 10 bodies, will service five constituencies in the area.Speaking at the commissioning of the mortuary last week, Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Khupe snubbed Mujuru coalition proposal

PEOPLE'S Rainbow Coalition presidential candidate Joice Mujuru has disclosed that MDC-T presidential candidate Thokozani Khupe snubbed her proposal for a coalition ahead of the July 30 polls.This came...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF takes on party rebel

ZANU-PF has petitioned the High Court on an urgent basis seeking to bar Murewa South Constituency independent candidate, Noah Mangondo, from using the ruling party's regalia depicting President Emmers...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

'Mnangagwa's rigging machine massive'

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa said Zanu-PF's rigging machine is massive to the extent of rigging the alphabet on the ballot paper.Addressing scores of people at Garwe Stadium in C...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Mthwakazi takes TM Pick n Pay fight to SA

THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has taken its fight against TM Hyper Pick and Pay to its headquarters in South Africa protesting alleged "nepotism" in the recruitment of employees at its Bulawayo s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

BCC, Metbank partnership hangs in balance

THE proposed housing development partnership between Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and Metbank still hangs in the balance, pending approval by the Local Government ministry.BCC last year proposed a part...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

OPINION

Electoral reforms - What are they

THERE has been a lot of talk since 2008 about electoral reforms. I have received many questions about what exactly this means and have been asked to break it down to into very simple, digestible terms...

By Miriam Tose Majome | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Ex-ZBC employees lose flats transfer matter

THE High Court has dismissed an application by former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) employees to force the national broadcaster to grant them ownership of 54 flats at Hartley House in Harare...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

EU mission wants free, fair elections

THE European Union Observer Mission chief election observer, Elmar Brok, yesterday said Zimbabwe should "undo" past wrongs by a free, fair and credible election this year and urged the Zimbabwe Clecto...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Residents drag council to court

RESIDENTS have taken Mutare City Council to the High Court over its alleged failure to audit its financial books for the last five years.The United Mutare Residents and Ratepayers' Trust (UMRRT), led ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe freer under Mnangagwa, than Mugabe

FORMER President Robert Mugabe's removal from power, under the weight of a military intervention in November last year, brought forth renewed hope in citizens and Zimbabweans are freer now than they h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

CSOs, political parties condemn Njelele bombing

CIVIC Society Organisations (CSOs) and political parties have sternly condemned the bombing and desecration of the sacred Njelele rainmaking shrine, a traditional and cultural heritage site, in Matobo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

ZIPP member assaults colleague in dispute

A ZIMBABWE Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP) party member has appeared in court charged with assaulting a colleague following a dispute over the manner the party's primary elections were conducted.Kud...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Mpopoma legislator vows to retain seat

ZANU-PF Mpopoma-Pelandaba legislator Joseph Tshuma has described himself as the candidate of choice in this year's forthcoming elections, claiming the constituency has benefited a lot from the ruling ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

OPINION

Of economic hardship and the forgotten traffic law

AS the ramshackle commuter omnibus slowly made its way into the Harare-Mutare Highway from Cherima high-density suburb in Marondera, Tawanda Choto (19) hangs precariously on to the rear bumper.This ha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Guzah's son case not urgent

HIGH Court judge Justice, Thompson Mabhikwa recently dismissed, as not urgent, an application filed by Hurungwe West MP Keith Guzah's son, Kevin together with his girlfriend, Kudzai Nduku demanding, a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt rolls out nationwide road rehabilitation

THE government has so far released $8 million for the dualisation of the Harare-Gweru highway with a 20km stretch expected to be completed by year-end as efforts to rehabilitate the national road netw...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

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