© THE CEO Africa Roundtable has called on government to stop excessive printing of money which negatively drives interest rates and money supply growth. Increased money supply not matched by productivity causes inflation. Last week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) would be injecting around $30 million in cash daily. This…
© OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa said yesterday that he was happy with the direction that talks aimed at ending his feud with Presi- dent Emmerson Mnangagwa are taking despite “a few issues” that still needed to be ironed out, the Daily News reports. This comes as Mnangagwa, who is also said to be warm- ing…
© THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says 2019 was disastrous for workers as their salaries and wages were eroded and their general welfare declined due to the tanking economy. Japhet Moyo, ZCTU secretary-general, yesterday said 2019 witnessed the worsening plight of employees in the country. [GoogleAd] “It is a year they (workers) would…
DISCORD has once again hit President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s advisory council, with some of its members increasingly questioning the government’s policies publicly, the Daily News reports. This comes as Mnangagwa has lashed out at some of the counsellors in recent months for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media. [GoogleAd] In the meantime, it has also…
© HARARE City Council has put on hold a tender process for water purification chemicals following revelations that some companies were corruptly given access to test their chemicals at Morton Jaffray before submitting bids. Recent council minutes show that four of the bidding companies; Nanotech Water Solutions P/L, Water Dimensions International, Aqua Global and Microlab…
© FAKE business licences have rocked the capital as a Harare City Council audit report revealed that 37 percent of the sample licences submitted for verification were fake. According to the audit report, there was a cartel working with corrupt council officials that was issuing out the licences. A council environmental health official had since…
© THE City of Harare has set aside $1,5 million to kick-start the Urban Renewal Project which will see the construction of new public toilets and provision of adequate refuse bins in the Central Business District. While accessing toilets is a basic human right, the ballooning population in the capital has made it impossible for…
© MATABELELAND North has once again recorded the highest number of open defecation cases in the country as most villagers reportedly settled in the province’s various districts without proper sanitation services, a report has revealed. According to Unicef, open defecation is the disposal of human waste in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water or…
© MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party’s “greed and love for power” for the bleak Christmas that Zimbabweans are set to endure tomorrow. In his Christmas message released yesterday, Chamisa said the “joblessness and pennilessness” of the majority of the country’s citizens was a result of a…
© BY 4am yesterday, hundreds of people were queuing at Hello Paisa’s Malaicha.com outlet at Copacabana in Harare, waiting to collect gro- ceries paid for in South Africa. Malaicha.com is a mobile application that Zimbabweans in South Africa can use to buy groceries in that country for their family and friends back in Zimba- bwe….
