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Bulawayo urged to adopt inclusive budgeting
An agenda activist and human rights lawyer, Prisca Dube, has called on Bulawayo City Council to adopt a more inclusive budgeting process that addresses the diverse needs of all its residents.S...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 13:17hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Food contract for Zimbabwe's security services sparks debate
A multi-million-dollar food supply contract awarded to Agrifora Private Limited to serve Zimbabwe's security services-including the Zimbabwe National Army, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), and Zimbabwe...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 15:17hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Councillors slam inaction over bus terminus revival
Frustration is mounting among Masvingo city councillors over the local authority's continued failure to renovate and revive Mucheke Bus Terminus, despite multiple resolutions aimed at restoring order ...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 13:09hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe City parking matter referred to High Court
Kwekwe City Council has distanced itself from an entity known as "Kwekwe City Parking," which has been collecting parking fees from motorists in the city's central business district, sparking controve...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 06:59hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's Ministry fails to provide Zimbabwe's basic economic data
Officials from Zimbabwe's Ministry of Finance faced sharp criticism on Monday during a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance meeting after arriving unprepared for the 2025 budget con...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 15:58hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube slammed
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has called on Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to expand the upcoming 2025 National Budget Consultations to allow for more inclusive input from th...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 08:05hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt has agreed to suspend decisions on retail and VAT'
The government may suspend its unpopular decisions on trading and Value Added Tax to give time for talks with businesses, according to a leading industry group.Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube an...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:33hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi Town Council to upgrade water supply systems
Chiredzi Town Council has tabled an ambitious 5 year development plan which will see the town intensely improve water supply and modernize all its infrastructure.This came out at a recent post...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 13:57hrs | 20 | by Stephen Jakes
Bikita RDC heeds community calls for schools and clinic construction
Following many years of continuous engagement by Citizens Action Southern Africa Zimbabwe (CIASA) community structures in Bikita, a series of community scorecards on the state of education and health,...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 08:24hrs | 33 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe police pass-out parade flops, send recruits home
POLICE have sent home recruits after a failed pass-out parade on Wednesday this week due to a shortage of uniforms, NewsDay can report.NewsDay is reliably informed that the Zimbabwe Republic P...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why we must reject Zanu-PF
THE Zanu-PF government is not a listening administration. For the last 18 years, I provided the government with grounded policy advice, but all fell on deaf ears. Zanu-PF is so arrogant that in this 2...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 11 | by Gift Mugano
Mnangagwa's cost-of-living nightmare terribly deepens
NINE weeks before Zimbabwe's general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a moment of truth as the imploding economy plunges the country into its third hyperinflation in 15 years amid rising ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Residents fume over toilets
GWANDA residents have complained over the municipality's delay in redeveloping Jahunda suburb. This came out during a public meeting conducted by the Community Youth Development Trust (CYDT) a...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Debt financing to fund 2023 budget
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube says debt financing will be used to fund the $4,5 trillion 2023 national budget, raising concerns about money supply growth.Treasury expects $3,9 trillion in reve...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over Chamisa's Sadc links?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is increasingly becoming worried about the growing anti-establishment wave sweeping across the region after a recent shock victory by former opposi...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar dollar budget will fuel inflation
AFRICA Economic Development Strategies executive director Gift Mugano has warned that the proposed $3,4 trillion 2023 national budget will fuel inflation and deepen the economic crisis in the southern...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ailing economy troubles Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF remains worried by the state of the economy ahead of general elections next year, with ruling party officials believing economic hardships will present a big hurdle for the party's quest to wi...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe transport ministry underfunded
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development says late disbursement and inadequate allocation of funds to the Transport ministry are slowing down road rehabilitat...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A case for Zimbabwe defence forces
DEFENCE and War Veterans Affairs minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri made very disturbing comments this week on the situation in our army barracks where hunger has apparently set up base.C...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Hunger stalks Zimbabwe army barracks
MORALE has reportedly hit rock-bottom in the army as the country's soldiers wallow in poverty and are having to make do with inadequate rations and uniforms, NewsDay can report.This was reveal...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli told to include minors in budget processes
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Caucus on Children's Rights, Mathew Nyashanu, has called for the inclusion of minors in the budget process to ensure that their needs and welfare are prioritised....Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Efforts to end loadshedding by November stepped up
The problems at the huge Hwange Power Station and the small Harare station have been corrected, while negotiations are ongoing for the importation of more electricity as a short-term measure to lessen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa grilled over propaganda
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank have run out of ideas and are introducing complicated policies that continue to confuse and disadvantage the ordinary people while failing to address...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Councils can offer local solutions to climate change crisis
The 2022 budget consultations for Kwekwe City are now done and dusted. Conspicuously absent from the submissions from the residents were inputs towards programs on climate change.Residents see...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 21:53hrs | 12 | by Taruberekera Masara
You've failed us, villagers tell MPs
Zvimba villagers last Friday blasted legislators for failing to effectively play their oversight role on budgetary allocations in Parliament, resulting in the increase in poverty levels among communit...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC climbs down on rates hike
BULAWAYO City Council has been forced to reduce the proposed increase in rates for the 2022 budget from 216% to 200%.This was revealed yesterday by mayor Solomon Mguni, who described the move ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents reject 216% rates increase
BULAWAYO residents have rejected a 216% proposed rate increase in the 2022 budget that would see residents in some wards paying as much as $12 000 in rates.The residents advised the loca...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube told to prioritise social services, incentivise teachers
PARTICIPANTS in public hearings on the 2022 national budget yesterday called on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to prioritise social services and incentivise teachers.The Parliamentary Portfolio...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High-water consumption alarms council
BULAWAYO City Council has expressed concern over the high-water consumption by residents which exceeds the daily limit set by the local authority.Council removed punitive water restrictions bu...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC to hold WhatsApp budget consultations
BULAWAYO City Council will for the second year running hold WhatsApp-based budget consultation meetings and also present the 2022 budget projections via the social networking platform.Last yea...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 10:13hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo residents object to virtual budget review
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has objected to plans by the local authority to conduct a joint virtual 2021 budget review and 2022 budget presentation, arguing the processes wer...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants plot full-blown strike
THE Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), a civil servants' group, has petitioned government over the erosion of government workers' salaries and gave notice of a nationwide f...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC supplementary budget approved
Government has approved Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s supplementary budget of $2,85 billion which will see service charges going up 372%, Southern Eye has learnt.In September, the BCC proposed...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents reject BCC 2021 budget
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has rejected the council's 2021 budget proposal, arguing that the budget formulation process was flawed.Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is pro...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Speaker of parly cracks whip on Mthuli
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday blasted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for failing to table the 2021 national budget strategy paper before Parliament for condonation.Mu...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube told to double devolution allocation
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has been urged to double the allocation of devolution funds to 10% of the national budget as stipulated in the Constitution as compared to the current 5%.The issu...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand $1bn budget for water
BULAWAYO residents have demanded that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube allocates more than $1 billion in the 2021 budget towards alleviation of water shortages in the city.The residents made the ...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC proposes $2,85 billion supplementary budget
BULAWAYO City Council on Friday announced a proposed $2,85 billion supplementary budget to sustain its operations for the remainder of this year.The council also announced a $17,1 billion prop...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe's recalls a drain to the fiscus
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) last week disclosed that it required about US$18,5 million to be able to run by-elections, a process that should be done by December 5.Most of the by-el...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
BCC launches virtual 2021 budget consultations
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has launched a virtual 2021 budget consultation programme with residents through its WhatsApp platform as public gatherings remain banned under government's COVID-19 contai...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC considers another supplementary budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is considering another supplementary budget despite residents having rejected a recent bid by city fathers to increase rates and tariffs by nearly 50%.Residents and...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance cold war gets hot
With the main opposition MDC Alliance bracing up for its congress in October next year, trouble seems to be brewing in paradise as party president Nelson Chamisa's loyalists are fighting teeth and nai...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hypocrisy exposes lack of political, ideological depth
A video circulating on social media of MDC officials, Murisi Zwizwai and Charlton Hwende publicly confronting, accusing and humiliating MDC co-vice-president, Engineer Elias Mudzuri for attending a me...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:12hrs | 5 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
'Fire me if l was wrong to meet Mnangagwa'
Under-fire MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri feels disrespected after being publicly dressed down by party members for meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa without approval.He has also challeng...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Rowdy Mabaudhi
Members of the disability community have come out guns blazing against one Gift Rowdy Mabaudhi whom they accuse of misrepresenting himself as the champion for the disability cause in a secret bid to s...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 11:57hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
More exemptions on Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax
TREASURY has proposed further exemptions to the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax of two cents per dollar transacted following widespread stakeholder concerns and the need to ease cost of doing busines...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mudzuri accused of being a sellout
Disgruntled MDC members yesterday scaled up calls for deputy president Elias Mudzuri's expulsion from the party for attending a meeting at State House with President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Parliament b...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies gun for Mudzuri
DIVISIONS rocking the MDC Alliance played out in the open yesterday when allies of party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa confronted vice president Engineer Elias Mudzuri, scolding him in public for having at...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Parliamentarians hypocritical: Mudzuri
MDC core-Vice President, Elias Mudzuri, has released a hash worded response to his party colleagues calling their actions and utterances hypocritical politicking.Mudzuri was responding to a vi...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 19:22hrs | | by Charles Motsi
Mudzuri proud to be fired from Chamisa's MDC Alliance
MDC legislators publicly heckled party vice president Elias Mudzuri Monday for attending a State House event presided over by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The opposition party's vice president...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 16:37hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
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