By Alois Vinga THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has resolved to proceed with a planned stayaway on a date to be announced despite death threats allegedly directed at its leaders this past week. The decision to proceed with the job action was reached at on Saturday by the labour group’s meeting by General
By Bulawayo Correspondent LOBELS bakery on Friday reportedly indefinitely closed its Bulawayo plant due to dwindling flour stocks. Workers at the plant told NewZimbabwe.com they were told to go home for an unspecified period until flour supplies have been secured. “Our Bulawayo plant closed on Friday. We have exhausted all our flour stocks. Management only
By Matabeleland North Correspondent A top chartered accountant says members of the profession in the country are struggling to balance books in the wake of what he termed the rushed abandonment of the multi-currency system by government. Takesure Famba, who is Zimbabwe’s head of the global Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), was addressing fellow
By Mary Taruvinga ECONET users were left stranded Saturday after the telecoms giant’s mobile network experienced a major shutdown owing to load shedding. The majority of Econet network services failed Saturday morning with no apologies or explanation being given by the company. The mobile operator only responded to the problem after over six hours of
By Richard Chidza/Leopold Munhende THE chaos rocking Bulawayo City Council power corridors took a new twist Thursday after all MDC councillors who constitute the council met party’s deputy secretary for local government Clifford Hlatshwayo in Harare for a crisis meeting. Insiders who attended the meeting told NewZimbabwe.com that Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni did not attend
By Anna Chibamu FORMER Agriculture and Mechanisation minister Joseph Made has been implicated in a ministry scandal by a former subordinate who told parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that he personally distributed equipment worth US$15 million which was a donation to the government of Zimbabwe from China. After being grilled by the committee members, Robson Gumbo,
By Leopold Munhende GOVERNMENT lost in excess of US$4 million through payment of ghost workers not through the Salary Service Bureau (SSB) but via line ministries’ payrolls, a recent report by Auditor General (AG) Mildred Chiri says. A ghost worker is an unknown and unaccounted for employee who draws wages and benefits from the state.
News24 Former president Jacob Zuma made another revelation in an address to his supporters on Friday, saying he had survived several assassination attempts on the presidential jet, Inkwazi. On Monday, Zuma, testifying before the commission of inquiry into state capture, said numerous attempts had been made to poison him in early 2019 as well as
AFP Zimbabwe sports minister Kirsty Coventry on Friday denied that the government had been interfering in the running of the country’s cricket. Coventry, a former Olympic swimming champion, said in a tweet she was “devastated” by the effect on players of a decision by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Zimbabwe Cricket because of
By Audience Mutema FIREBRAND MP for Norton Temba Mliswa Wednesday threatened to take the Executive to the Constitutional Court for alleged failure to honour its pledges towards legislators’ wages and their welfare. “I will draw to your attention, despite the high inflation, members of parliament are still not yet given any increment in the current
By Anna Chibamu AS the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA)’s poor capacity to generate enough power challenge continues, Goromonzi North legislator Ozias Bvute has urged Energy Minister Fortune Chasi to consider selling off the utility’s debt at a discount to contain the struggling firm’s critical cash flow problem. Bvute made the call during debate in
By Matabeleland North Correspondent Victoria Falls: Zimbabwe is set to increase its fleet of Zupco buses with about 2 000 expected in the country between now and next week. Addressing delegates at the Rural District Councils chairpersons’ conference Thursday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said that he will commission the buses next week. He said 1 000
By Tonderai Saharo THE usually serene and remote villages of Zaka East in Masvingo will soon come to life when the annual peace and tolerance gala returns to one of the most politically volatile parts of the province which braces for a by-election. The seat fell vacant following the death of Zanu PF legislator Caston
By Anna Chibamu NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa and fellow opposition legislators Wednesday took Home Affairs Minister Cain Mathema to task on why government was making citizens’ lives unbearable through failure to produce passports. During parliament’s question and answer session, MPs took turns to demand answers on why government failures have sunk to levels where it
By Audience Mutema GOVERNMENT has given the green light to power utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) to increase its tariffs in the wake of crippling power outages brought by low generating capacity at Kariba coupled with lack of foreign currency to import more power. This was revealed by Energy Minister Fortune Chasi in parliament
By Leopold Munhende MDC President Nelson Chamisa has summoned to Harare, all Bulawayo City councillors following a tribal storm torched by the recent suspension of Town Clerk Christopher Dube by Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami. This was revealed by party spokesperson Daniel Molokele during a news conference in Harare on Wednesday. “Tomorrow (Thursday) all the councillors
By Mary Taruvinga EX-ZIMBABWE football international footballer, Shingayi Kawondera and first husband to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s wife, Marry, has come out of his shell, confronting his ex-wife with a US$700 000 claim for allegedly cheating her way out of the couple’s marriage. Kawondera has sensationally claimed he never consented to divorce with the former
By Robert Tapfumaneyi OUTSPOKEN legislators, Temba Mliswa (Independent) and Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga (MDC) will this week move a motion to repeal a section of the law that gives parties the right to recall Members of Parliament once they are deemed to have “rebelled” against their leadership. Former Cabinet Minister Misihairabwi-Mushonga, speaking on hers and Mliswa’s behalf,
By Robert Tapfumaneyi ZIMBABWEANS in Matebeleland North are still using the bush to relieve themselves, a 2019 Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVac) report has said. According to the report, Binga district has the highest number of most homes that do not have toilets, adding open defecation and disposal of human fecal matter in fields, forest,
By Mary Taruvinga A High Court judge has given Buhera South legislator, Joseph Chinotimba the green-light to attach a property belonging to Chinese owned firm, Sunny Zimbabwe International in order to recover US$65 755 debt for supplied macadamia nuts. The firm had petitioned the High Court for an order to stop the legislator from auctioning
