AS THE country continues to reel from brutal power cuts, the country’s tottering public health institutions are paying the price for the relentless loadshedding. At the same time, the power cuts have worsened the ability of struggling local authorities around the country to treat their water and pump it to parched suburbs and industrial areas….
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says the government is currently probing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) companies abusing the Reserve of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency facility by selling gas in foreign currency instead of the local currency. Answering questions in the Senate last week, Ncube said the government was doing everything to deal with unscrupulous LP gas…
TRIBUTES were pouring in yesterday after affable Zanu PF spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo, died in Bulawayo after a long illness. SK, as Khaya Moyo was affectionately referred to by many people, was 76, and was known to have been battling with cancer for many years. Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, described the former…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says authorities have put in place measures to tame the country’s resurgent foreign currency black market. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, Ncube said the steps that the government had taken to stabilise the market were beginning to bear fruit, including in terms of checking soaring prices of basic goods. “Statutory…
AUTHORITIES have conceded that they have no immediate solution for the country’s crippling power crisis, amid growing fears that this will soon drive up anew the prices of basic goods. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, said the government did not know how long it would take to resolve the…
THE leader of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), Lovemore Madhuku, says the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) remains “the best platform” for national…
LONG-SUFFERING Zimbabweans are set to endure worse blackouts in the coming weeks and months, as power utility Zesa Holdings(Zesa)continues to struggle to…
MDC boss Douglas Mwonzora is reaching out to all his opposition counterparts, including Nelson Chamisa, in a bid to present a united front when they engage President Emmerson Mngangagwa in the long-mooted national dialogue. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, MDC national chairperson Morgen Komichi said it would not be optimal for them to hold talks with Mnangagwa…
A HARARE woman has appeared in court on allegations of swindling a local agro-company of over $3 million on the guise that she had capacity to supply them with 30 000 litres of diesel. Chenaimoyo Gwatidzo was not asked to plead to fraud charges and spent the weekend behind bars. The State vehemently opposed her…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, is pleased as punch with how his trip to the United Kingdom (UK) this week went, and is anticipating significant diplomatic and investment gains for Zimbabwe in the coming months and years. Addressing hordes of his supporters who welcomed him back in Harare yesterday, after he attended a major global climate…
