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HARARE – Business lobby groups have denied their members illegally stashed hundreds of millions of dollars overseas, saying they just did not acquit their foreign payments on time. Unless proven otherwise, claims of externalisation of foreign exchange by government could expose the ruling administration’s ignorance in constitutional, administrative and bureaucratic issues. The country’s largest industrial…

HARARE – A state-sanctioned investigation into a massive ivory and rhino horn trafficking scandal that prejudiced the foreign currency-starved nation of millions of United States dollars has sucked in former first lady Grace Mugabe. Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri sensationally claimed in an interview with the Daily News yesterday that Grace would occasionally…

HARARE – A State-sanctioned investigation into a massive ivory and rhino horn trafficking scandal that prejudiced the foreign currency-starved nation of millions of United States dollars has sucked in former first lady Grace Mugabe. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]

HARARE – Mt Pleasant Clinic reopened yesterday after undergoing renovations. Located in ward 17, the facility is poised to offer enhanced services that include a wellness clinic, prostate and cervical cancer screening and many other services. The overhaul will make a major impact on the lives of the community, especially for individuals who require low-cost…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa joins African leaders today in Rwanda where they are set to launch the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) — the biggest free trade agreement since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Mnangagwa was reportedly congratulated by Nigeria’s influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo for a “peaceful political transition”…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government yesterday released the long-awaited list of companies and individuals alleged to have failed to return $827 million stashed abroad following the expiry of a 14-week-long amnesty, the Daily News can report. Read full story in today’s paper. {Adz]

HARARE – Hundreds of people settled on a more than 240ha stretch of land in Highdon (Sandton project) under the Zvimba Rural District Council face imminent eviction after the local authority’s lawyers recently wrote to the developer to inform them of the intention. In a letter to Bvekwa Law Practice Legal Practitioners — who are…