PEOPLE arrested for illegally trading in foreign currency are not being successfully convicted because the public is unwilling to be witnesses, Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro has said. Madiro told Senators recently that there was need for citizens to team up with the police to fight crime, including the black market foreign currency trade….
GRAIN millers are in the habit of hoarding government’s subsidised maize meal to sell on the black market, a development that has led to serious shortages of the product, Parliament heard yesterday. This was said by minister of Industry Sekai Nzenza in the Senate while responding to a question by MDC Senator for Bulawayo Gideon…
INDEPENDENT power producers (IPPS), who are courting foreign investors, have told Parliament the financiers are demanding power purchasing agreements (PPA)s which stipulate that payment be denominated in US$, but payable in local currency so that shareholders are not shortchanged on their dividends. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy and Power Development to give…
MENTAL health centres are being weighed down by serious impediments, which include severe shortage of staff and medicine in addition to poor infrastructure, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health and Child Care has said. In a report tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the committee laid bare deep-rooted inadequacies undermining mental health institutions. “The…
MALE sex workers have complained that the stigmatisation and criminalisation of their profession is derailing the country’s progress in reducing the spread of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) as it is hindering them from accessing essential health services. This comes as the world on Tuesday commemorated International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, with efforts aimed at demanding recognition…
ZIMBABWE needs to strengthen and constitute legal aid services (Paralegals) in order to improve access to justice and the rule of law, legal fraternity stakeholders have said. This came out yesterday during a workshop organised by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in partnership with Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and Legal Resources Foundation (LRF)…
ZIMBABWE Old People Association (Zopa) of Chitungwiza has petitioned the Local Government parliamentary portfolio committee to investigate sewer problems in the town. In its presentation to Parliament recently, Zopa, a grouping of elderly people, said the town is now only left with one functional sewer pump to serve over a million people, amid fears it…
SCORES of citizens, who claim they were assaulted by soldiers during last year’s fuel price hike protests, have taken Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri to the High Court demanding compensation. In the applications, the “victims”, who are from different parts of the country, cited Muchinguri-Kashiri and Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Valerio Sibanda as respondents. Among some…
A MARONDERA man was yesterday convicted of criminal trespass after taking a short cut that passes through Irvine’s Farm in Derbshire, Waterfalls, Harare. Darlington Chidawanyika, 26, pleaded guilty to the charge and said he committed the offence out of ignorance. “I only became aware after I was apprehended that it was an offence. I jumped…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, says he is keen to end Zimbabwe’s worsening political and economic crises through dialogue but has been kept waiting by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, a visiting cleric said yesterday. This comes as dialogue between Mnangagwa and Chamisa has stalled over the insistence by the Zanu PF leader that the youthful MDC…
