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Mnangagwa wants Mthuli Ncube to loosen his purse
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to loosen his purse and prioritise the ailing health services sector, which is facing chronic shortages of drugs and medi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4948 | by Staff reporter
Jessie Majome: 'Salute' A Zimbabwean woman breaking the glass-ceiling!
Quote: Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will, "She doesn't have what it takes."...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 16:37hrs | 4244 | by Nomazulu Thata
Lessons from Singapore on economic development
Singapore is a tiny island-city state in Southeast Asia with a total area of 718km2 (543 times smaller than Zimbabwe) and part of the four Asian Tigers (Others include Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Kore...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 1265 | by Victor Bhoroma
Beitbridge court rebuffs Mohadi request
A BEITBRIDGE magistrate has dismissed an ex-parte application by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi seeking to have solitary access to a bank account he jointly holds together with two other businessmen he h...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
600 000l fuel disappears
Auditor General (AG) Mildred Chiri has expressed concern over the disappearance of a donation of 600 000 litres of fuel by a South African company.The fuel was meant to transport prisoners, bu...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 14:56hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Edgars Stores ups interest rates
Edgars Stores Limited says it is in the process of increasing interest rates charged on customer accounts due to inflation and increased cost of borrowing.In a trading update at the company's ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 14:55hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Diasporans contribute towards growth of rural economies
DIASPORANS continue to be the cornerstone of turning around the economies and livelihoods of families at most rural communities in Matabeleland South Province bordering the country with neighbouring c...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:37hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Inflation-linked pay-outs for pensioners
Pensioners are set to start receiving inflation-adjusted pay-outs, as the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) starts reviewing the compensation framework.The latest recorded year-on-year...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:24hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
The calibre of councillors
THE Auditor-General's (AG) Local Authorities Report for 2018 makes for some serious, but disturbing reading.It reports the state of financial management of local authorities and shows the exte...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 440 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Mayor humiliates Kambarami, lifts suspension of town clerk
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has reversed a decision by his deputy Tinashe Kambarami to suspend town clerk Christopher Dube, as the battle for control of the City of Kings intensifies.Kambaram...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's ally to expose 'theft' at Zifa
Suspended Zifa executive committee member Chamu Chiwanza has promised to spill the beans on the "theft" that is taking place at the association, following his suspension on allegations of electoral fr...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders the acceleration of roads tarring in Matebeleland
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered the acceleration of roads development and tarring in Matebeleland, among them the 92km Plumtree-Maitengwe Border Post stretch.Transport and Infrastruct...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo woman to represent Zimbabwe in US
A BULAWAYO woman has been selected to represent the country in the United States where she will be trained on the importance of inclusive education. Inclusive education is where schools put up...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Order must be restored at Bulawayo City Hall
Bulawayo City Council has dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past fortnight. They have grossly mishandled the ongoing rehabilitation of the city's water wor...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 237 | by Editorial comment
Unpacking the Kambarami -Town Clerk suspension saga
The wait is over.Yesterday (11 July 2019) I promised to give my opinion on the “alleged suspension pending disciplinary investigation” of the Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr. Christopher Dube by th...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 15:45hrs | 4729 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
Getting Zimbabwe back on track
IT is extremely frustrating to sit on the sidelines of this game we are all playing called "getting Zimbabwe back on track".We are doing so many of the right things, our team is looking much b...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | 2881 | by Eddie Cross
Former top govt official in US$5 million Zinara storm
FORMER deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet Ray Ndhlukula is in the eye of a storm after it emerged this week that he unprocedurally ordered the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2071 | by Staff reporter
'Project delays costing RG’s Office'
THE Registrar-General (RG)'s Office has been incurring huge costs for unfinished district registry office projects, whose prices have since doubled or trebled due to late implementation.This w...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:48hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
'Chiyangwa to blame for Afcon crisis'
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo yesterday made sensational claims accusing his predecessor, Philip Chiyangwa, for allegedly being part of a cartel that caused mayhem that stalked the Warriors' 2019 Afco...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
5 contractors gun for Harare-Beitbridge Highway tender
GOVERNMENT plans to speed up the refurbishment of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway beginning next month, with five contractors expected to be selected in a shortened tender process. Further, a fr...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 3123 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors plot against Bulawayo Town Clerk
MDC Alliance councillors have called for a special council meeting tomorrow as part of their plot to suspend Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube who has resisted their meddlesome conduct and overstep...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:23hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami suspends Bulawayo Town Clerk, trying to capture City council
Acting Bulawayo mayor Tinashe Kambarami has reportedly suspended the city's Town Clerk Christopher Dube on allegations of misappropriating council funds.In a letter dated July 11, 2019, Cllr K...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 4760 | by Staff reporter
Cranborne Boys High School students in demo
CRANBORNE Boys High School staged a demonstration earlier today against the school head Mr Dennis Masenga who is being accused of mismanagement and misappropriation of funds at the school.Mr M...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:30hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South teachers call for strike
EMBATTLED teachers in Insiza district, Matebeleland South, have called on their union, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, to urgently organise a strike over their deteriorating working ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1188 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages IATA executives
INTERNATIONAL Air Transport Association (IATA) executive members met with President Mnangagwa at his Munhumutapa Offices yesterday to discuss ways of improving the air transport system in the country ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:36hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Let's embrace the Zimbabwean spirit of Ubuntu
Dear ZimbabweansSo prices of basic commodities are tumbling and the foreign currency dealers are kicking and screaming! Surely that's the Zimbabwe we want not this madness of profiteering and ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | 542 | by Munya Shumba
New law to regulate churches in Zimbabwe, good news
This is good news, for there are many burgeoning Christian denominations which are specifically established for wrong objectives. The purpose of a Christian denomination is solely to do the work of Go...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1176 | by Njabulo
Gweru rejects $200k roads plan
GWERU city fathers have rejected a deal put forward by the local authority's management to channel over $200 000 from its coffers to pay a private company to complete rehabilitation of roads in the de...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
How Chinamasa sabotaged Tsholotsho stadium
Former Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa sabotaged the construction of Tsholotsho stadium because it was fronted by the then legislator Professor Jonathan Moyo. Professor Moyo made the revela...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 17:02hrs | 5300 | by Mandla Ndlovu
An explosive ZANU PF Conference being planned
ZANU PF is the ruling party of Zimbabwe and he who has control of ZANU PF controls the country. The importance of ZANU PF was emphasized during the events of November 2017. The tussle for power ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 11:52hrs | 8431 | by Nicholas Ncube
Multi-currency was a disaster
Government says multi-currency system created fiscal and monetary challenges, stunting economic growth and making most industries in Zimbabwe uncompetitive. Treasury permanent-secretary George...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:31hrs | 3624 | by Staff reporter
'Multi-currency stifled Zimbabwe economic growth'
THE use of the multi-currency system since 2009 stifled growth as the country could not utilise monetary instruments to stimulate economic activity, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Prof Mth...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Chiri bemoans poor funding
Auditor General Mildred Chiri is back in the spotlight after producing yet another report detailing abuse of funds and inefficiencies in government departments and parastatals.Some of the reve...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:29hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC MPs to receive vehicles
In the next two weeks, legislators are expected to take delivery of new vehicles under the Parliamentary vehicle loan scheme amid reports that some of the lawmakers have been using public transport to...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:01hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Tongai Matutu, 6 lawyers de-registered, misconduct cited
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has struck off the roll, seven lawyers with a contemptible disciplinary history of misconduct during the first four months of the year, as the society scales up its f...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:02hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2090 | by Victor Bhoroma
'ZANU PF steals US$9 Billion from Treasury'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa presided over the theft of Treasury bonds worth USD$ 9 billion through the controversial Command Agriculture program.Moyo ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 14:48hrs | 13049 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe loses billions to illicit financial flows
GOVERNMENT should complement monetary policy changes with an anti-corruption strategy to curb illicit financial flows (IFFs) as the country is losing billions annually, businessdigest has learnt....Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:37hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Dr Lovemore Kurotwi
Dear Esteemed Dr Kurotwi my first port of call is to school you on what an opinion piece is. (Ah! Cry the journalistic profession, no sir !!) Dr Kurotwi sir, an opinion is a view or judgement formed a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:20hrs | 1610 | by Nicholas Ncube
Bulawayo City owed $189 million
Bulawayo City Council, as of end of April 2019, was owed over ZWL$189 million by ratepayers, including government departments and the private sector, a situation that has impacted negatively on servic...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
SRC goes after Zifa
The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has gone after Zifa, demanding explanations over a number of issues, including how the association used its funds before and during the Warriors' participati...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo spurns ZNA donation request
BULAWAYO city fathers recently turned down a request by the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) to sponsor its family fun-day shooting competition, citing financial challenges, a council report reveals....Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
AG report puts ZACC to test
The efficiency of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) will be put to test by its response to the scathing Auditor- General's report that exposed serious rot in government and parastatals....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:48hrs | 872 | by Mona Lisa Dube
Giving Mthuli Ncube's mono-currency a fighting chance
It is July 1, 1916, World War 1, the Battle of the Somme. The British Army had been planning for weeks and months for a massive assault on German positions dug in around Somme, to relieve pressure on ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:46hrs | 3986 | by Joseph Mverecha
Zimra in a fix as uncertainty engulfs tax compliance
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has plunged into turmoil after the introduction of new monetary and fiscal measures created compliance headache. Speaking at the Institute of Chartered A...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:12hrs | 3091 | by Staff reporter
Fresh liquidity crunch hits Zimbabwe banks
A severe liquidity crunch is looming in the fragile financial services sector following government's directive compelling all banking institutions to transfer to the central bank local currency balanc...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:11hrs | 3888 | by STaff reporter
Who is going to trust Zimbabwe with aid and credit lines?
If we are going to be so irresponsible, so reckless, so unaccountable, so extravagant and so unprincipled in handling our meagre resources, who is going to trust us with aid and credit lines? If you w...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 10:21hrs | 1489 | by Clemen Moyo
Obert Mpofu brushes off graft charges
Obert Mpofu, under pressure to vacate his Zanu-PF secretary for administration post over corruption allegations, has said he won't be stopped from reporting for work by anyone as a graft inquiry gets ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 6731 | by Staff reporter
Concubinages, spouse, family barred on Govt trips
Government is tightening the belt in public finances management and has devised measures to govern expenditure and debt. A key feature of the new regulations - contained in Statutory Instrumen...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | 932 | by Staff reporter
Govt institutions doing havoc to our finances and resources
If we are going to be so irresponsible, so reckless, so unaccountable, so extravagent and so unprincipled in handling our meagre resources, who is going to trust us with aid and credit lines? If you w...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:42hrs | 560 | by Clemen Moyo
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