HARARE – The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) paid over $25 000 in fees to a non-existent board, the Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has said. Chiri reported this as a malpractice in her audit report on State enterprises and parastatals for the financial year ended 2016. “The corporation paid expenses amounting to $25 228 during…
HARARE – A number of private schools are heading for confrontation with government after it emerged they are still charging fees for Form 1 entrance tests despite a standing ban imposed on the practice. The ban followed an outcry by parents over the steep cost of entrance tests — prompting Primary and Secondary Education ministry…
HARARE – Eight people died yesterday morning when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in rammed into a broken-down lorry along the Chitungwiza– Hwedza highway in Dema. National police spokesperson Charity Charamba confirmed the incident, calling on the public to desist from circulating pictures with dead accident victims on social networks. “Six people died on…
HARARE – War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube is in deep trouble for throwing his weight behind former liberation war fighters who are putting pressure on President Robert Mugabe to name his successor in order to stop the infighting in Zanu PF. A liberation war icon who fought on the Zapu’s Zipra side during the war,…
HARARE – The son of a wealthy preacher and a cattle rancher, Joshua Nkomo, turned his back on a life of privilege to lead a left-wing revolution in Rhodesia that endured for decades and was shaped by his political cunning and keen sense of destiny. Nkomo, who died of cancer on July 1, 1999 at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy remains fragile with a “precarious” level of public debt during the year to March rising to over $11 billion, the Parliament Budget Office said in its latest report. Zimbabwe’s domestic debt rose 40 percent to $4,3 billion, with external debt standing at $7,5 billion or 53 percent of GDP. Of the…
HARARE – State veterinarians are stocking expired drugs, posing a potential risk to animal health, an audit tabled in the National Assembly has revealed. The government internal audit stated that there was a risk that some of the nation’s veterinarians could feed animals the expired antibiotics when sickness strikes as well as expired vaccines as…
HARARE – Questions on the House of Assembly’s Order Paper had to be deferred last week after several Cabinet ministers bunked the Question and Answer session, stirring opposition fury. The ministers were said to be tied up at the explosive politburo meeting to decide the fate of Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere at the Zanu…
HARARE – Expensive medical equipment acquired by government for its struggling hospitals has been gathering dust for four years — forcing hundreds of patients to seek private services — because there are no technicians to install them. This was revealed by the Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri in her latest report which has been tabled in…
BULAWAYO – War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has broken ranks with the tradition in Zanu PF by openly backing former liberation war fighters who are ratcheting up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to name his successor to end the dog-eat-dog infighting ravaging his party over his succession. Dube, who held several high-ranking positions in the…
