HARARE – Law enforcement agents are on high alert following a recent spate of armed robberies and heinous rape incidents around the country — including in the capital, Harare where a gang of rogue taxi drivers is terrorising women, the Daily News can report. This comes as police in Manicaland have engaged their Mozambican counterparts,…
HARARE – Our staff writer Pauline Hurungudo interviews Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Over four decades, Hanke has advised dozens of world leaders from Ronald Reagan to Indonesia’s Suharto on currency reforms, infrastructure development, privatisation, and how to tame hyperinflation. Hanke…
HARARE – Law enforcement agents are on high alert following a recent spate of armed robberies and heinous rape incidents around the country — including in the capital, Harare where a gang of rogue taxi drivers is terrorising women, the Daily News can report. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Millers are considering dumping local producers of packaging material in favour of foreign manufacturers, after the indigenous players significantly increased their prices, with some demanding payment in US dollars. In a statement, the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ), said if the local manufactures fail to take heed of the call to review…
HARARE – A titanic clash is looming between increasingly twitchy authorities and the MDC, over the main opposition’s plans to mount a massive demonstration to protest the country’s falling standards of living which it blames on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – John Muza* left home on August 1 to purchase a new laptop in Harare’s CBD after saving for more than six months. It was a poignant moment for him as a disc jockey (DJ) at a night club. Muza would finally get his long-cherished laptop, an important piece of gear in the modern…
HARARE – Sometime in 2015, Sibusiso Bhebhe, a director of a non-profit organisation boarded a commuter omnibus on his way home with an older woman. The conductor directed the older woman to sit at the back but the woman resisted, opting for a more convenient seat close to the door. “The kombi soon filled up…
HARARE – Ministries under President Robert Mugabe’s regime blatantly violated tender procedures mostly in the purchase of motor vehicles, fuel and equipment, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has said. This emerged in audit reports for 2017 presented in Parliament by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri. The damning report slammed government ministries for flouting governance and procurement rules which was…
HARARE – The coup d’état that ousted long-ruling despot Robert Mugabe last November, was a watershed moment in both the history of Zimbabwe and southern Africa. The post-coup leader Emmerson Mnangagwa was held out by many as the best hope to spearhead an economic recovery predicated on re-engagement with international creditors and a package of…
HARARE – At least $17 million was unaccounted for by the Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment ministry, Auditor General Mildred Chiri has said. In her 2017 report, the AG said the ministry failed to appropriately account for $17 520 015 which was processed under the salary bill without Treasury authorisation. The ministry was then run…
