HARARE – Kadoma businessman Jimayi Muduvuri is set to give 300 residential stands to churches and people living with disabilities. Speaking at the handover of 40 stands and 10 houses in Kadoma on Saturday, Muduvuri — who is also the patron of the Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches (ZaC) — said his members are struggling to acquire…
HARARE – Over 400 pharmacists have been deregistered by the Pharmacists Council of Zimbabwe (PCZ) and will not be allowed to practice in Zimbabwe. PCZ registers pharmacists, develops standards, codes and guidelines for the pharmacy profession and also handles notifications, complaints, investigations and disciplinary hearings. In order to practise in Zimbabwe, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will import about 200 000 tonnes of wheat this year from Canada to cover a deficit, following lower plantings due to lack of finance and shortages of fertiliser and electricity. This comes in the wake of a trip by a Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe team to Toronto two weeks ago led…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must walk the talk on reforms to extricate the economy from the rut amid worsening cash shortages, the Parliament Budget Office has said. Government spending and foreign debt are too high and urgently needs structural reform, the bicameral Parliament said, noting that the Zimbabwean economy is facing several challenges including cash crisis,…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has condemned deputy Finance and Economic Planning minister Terrence Mukupe’s disturbing denigration of opposition leader Tendai Biti over anti-retroviral (ARVs) drugs. ZADHR said political leaders must be torch bearers in the fight against HIV/Aids and associated stigma and discrimination. Mukupe’s comments, the lobby group…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate stands at only 6,6 percent of the economically active population of 5,6 million, the official statistics agency has claimed. According to the 2017 Inter-Censal Demographic Survey (ICDS) launched last week by the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (Zimstat) 93, four percent of the population is employed in one way or the other,…
HARARE – The United Nations mission in Zimbabwe has claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling government is doing its best to ensure that a mid-year general election is “free and fair.” Bishow Parajuli, UN Resident Co-ordinator for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Zimbabwe, said in New York last week that he believed Zimbabwe was prepared…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy could grow by up to 4,5 percent this year, driven by an expected growth in agriculture and mining, Parliament’s Budget Office has said. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who came to power in November after a de facto military coup that removed long-time leader Robert Mugabe, has promised economic reforms to attract foreign…
HARARE – The nasty fight for 40 percent of mobile network operator Telecel’s shares, which belong to an empowerment consortium, is getting worse — amid damaging claims and counterclaims by the warring parties. Now, the corporate brawl has sucked in the secretaries of the consortium, Carlton Consultants, a company that is headed by Caston Chikosi….
HARARE – Press freedom group Misa-Zimbabwe has condemned the assault of senior journalist with the NewsDay, Blessed Mhlanga by deputy minister of Finance and Member of Parliament (MP), Terrence Mukupe. The assault took place on the evening of May 24 during a live broadcast of Focus, a current affairs programme aired on SFM, a local…
