HARARE – Parliament will soon approve a new law targeted at ending child marriages and enforce equal distribution of matrimonial property upon divorce or separation of spouses. The law, expected to come into force by year-end, is part of reforms under the new Constitution overwhelmingly adopted in a March 2013 referendum. The impending passage of…
HARARE – Government has moved to gazette the National Social Security Authority (Nssa)’s new and upgraded funeral cover for pensioners. Labour minister Prisca Mupfumira made the notice in a government gazette published on Friday under Statutory Instrument 46 of 2017. “A retired pensioner shall be entitled to a funeral enhancement benefit upon his or her…
HARARE – Zanu PF Masvingo provincial finance secretary Killer Zivhu has vowed to vie for Norton independent MP Temba Mliswa’s seat in the 2018 parliamentary elections, after a bitter war of words erupted between the two. This comes after Mliswa declared war on Zivhu, accusing him of swindling Norton residents of hundreds of thousands of…
HARARE – Zimbabwean motorists have launched a campaign against “abuse” by the police on the country’s roads, with the road users planning to petition Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo. So far, the petition by the Road Users Association (RUA) Zimbabwe on March 22 has got 3 012 signatures by yesterday afternoon out of a target…
HARARE – Thousands of families could be relocated from Penhalonga, just outside Mutare, amid claims that rich diamond deposits have been discovered in the area — although the government is dampening expectations. This comes as production at the Marange diamond fields, also in Manicaland, has plummeted to an all-time low due to the government’s ill-advised…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s warring ruling Zanu PF will hold two crucial meetings this week, which could determine the fate of some top party officials — as the former liberation movement’s mindless bloodletting continues unabated. This comes as State media reports suggested at the weekend that among the party heavyweights who are under the…
HARARE – Flamboyant preacher Uebert Angel, born Uebert Mudzanire, says Zimbabwe’s dying economy will soon thrive again — going on to pooh-pooh bond notes which were introduced by President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government late last year to mitigate the country’s worsening cash crisis. Well-known for his opulent lifestyle, the preacher — who was in the…
HARARE – Zimbabwean authorities have generated outrage after increasing spot fines by up to 100 percent to try to deter road carnage, to the bemusement and anger of many motorists. Motorists demanded a rollback of that increase to make sure spot fines remain affordable. This comes as Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has just slapped suffering…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government is going for broke — slapping long-suffering poor Zimbabweans with a raft of new taxes in its desperate efforts to raise revenue to meet its obligations, including paying its restive workers on time. So financially distressed has the government become, that last week alone it introduced a number…
HARARE – Zimbabwean courts are determined to hold government officials accountable for wrongdoing involving torture. The increased move for the punishment of atrocities that the establishment represents is acknowledged as a monumental significance for human rights and domestic criminal law. The latest court cases consolidate a determination to end the culture of impunity that has…
