Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw MANY farmers across the country have lost all hope of harvesting anything from their non-irrigated fields this season, due to the El Niño-induced drought that is hammering most of the region. As a result, the government is advising all such affected farmers to turn the little that remains of their crops into…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) last year raised $868 billion from road fees and a bulk of the money will go into road rehabilitation. This was confirmed yesterday by Zinara chairperson George Manyaya while presenting the road fund disbursement report for the year 2023 in Harare where he added…
ECOCASH, the leading financial services platform in the country, has expanded its payroll services to include security companies. The latest development allows employees of companies in the security sector across the country to conveniently receive their full pay directly into their EcoCash wallets.“Extending payroll services to security companies — whose personnel are scattered across the…
ZIMBABWE’s first independent television station, 3Ktv, is toasting to two years of non-stop live broadcasting today, as it continues to set the…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw PUBLIC Service Commission (PSC) employees, including ministry directors, signed integrity pledges yesterday as authorities bid to curb corruption in public offices. Last year, commissioners and other top managers of the PSC signed similar pledges to promote integrity, honesty, prudence, transparency, accountability and servant leadership, among a host of other values that the…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday explained that the sugar content tax announced in the 2024 National Budget is for added sugar in specified beverages, excluding natural sugar. This comes as some stakeholders, including business, criticised the budget whose key elements include the introduction of a wealth tax, sugar tax on beverages, passport, toll fees and…
THE government has revised the Continuous Assessment of Learning Activities (Cala) in schools by reducing the number of assessed subjects. This comes after various stakeholders, including parents, teachers and parliamentarians, among others, raised concerns that the Calas were taxing on the part of not only learners but also guardians and educators. In a post-Cabinet media…
THE government has given millers the green light to import genetically modified (GMO) maize from South Africa, as authorities strive to ensure food security in the country. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Agriculture yesterday, Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson, Tafadzwa Musarara, confirmed the development and also assured MPs that the maize…
A SUSPECTED Harare fraudster who allegedly funnelled money from a housing consortium for Donnybrook and Mabvuku residents has been charged with 13 counts of fraud. Lloyd Maungira, 48, and Murambiwa Makumire, 46, the chairperson and secretary of the Mabvuku/Donnybrook Housing Consortium respectively, were yesterday arraigned before Harare Magistrate Apolonia Marutya where they were released in…
THE country’s worsening currency and prices crisis is becoming increasingly unbearable for many hard-pressed consumers and businesses alike. This comes as the Zimbabwe dollar is continuing to slump on both the parallel and official markets — causing the prices of basic goods in the country to shoot up regularly in response. Yesterday, the hapless domestic…
