HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has backed Zimbabwe’s adoption of the South African rand as its main currency. After ditching a worthless Zimbabwe dollar in 2009, the country has been using several currencies — United States (US) dollar, yuan and the rand, among other — along with the recently introduced bond notes, a currency surrogate…
HARARE – Zanu PF has rubbished the European Union (EU)’s decision to renew sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace for another year, saying the move is “shameful and disgraceful”. The union, which also upheld sanctions on the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), announced in a statement that its council took the position…
HARARE – The procurement of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits for the 2018 elections remains under the control of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with government only funding the process, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa told Parliament yesterday. Responding to a question during a debate, Mnangagwa — who also doubles up as Justice minister — said…
HARARE – Hospital doctors, who have been on strike for the second week running, have insisted they will not report for duty until they get an audience with the Finance ministry and their concerns addressed. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association president Edgar Munatsi told the Daily News that they no longer want to negotiate with the…
BULAWAYO – Government said yesterday all of Matabeleland schools will be closed to students for two days due to President Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday bash set for Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (REPS) in Matobo on Saturday. The directive was issued by the Primary and Secondary Education ministry. It decreed schools to close today and tomorrow….
HARARE – Expelled Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elders — Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa — have threatened to sue the party’s interim leader Joice Mujuru (pictured) for allegedly making “defamatory” sexual remarks against them, unless she publicly apologises. A fortnight ago, Mujuru accused the pair of seeking to turn her into a sex slave, after…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe unwittingly confirmed Zimbabwe’s worsening rot — which is widely blamed on him and his misfiring government — when he revealed during his annual birthday interview with the ZBC last week that even he kept money at home fearing bank failures. Mugabe also hinted in that televised interview that Zimbabwe should adopt…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the government to declare the Cyclone Dineo-induced floods a national disaster after concerns about the ability of government to cope with the aftermath. This comes after rain and strong winds battered Matabeleland last weekend, causing damage and devastating parts of Tsholotsho where villagers have been…
HARARE – The President Robert Mugabe who sat in front of reporters for his birthday interview appeared very different to the confident man who has lorded over Zimbabwe for the past 36 years, weathering the challenge of a robust opposition at home and loud Western pressure. Mugabe looked pale and frail in his choreographed interview…
HARARE – Transport minister Jorum Gumbo was yesterday grilled by legislators over the granting of a road construction contract to a Chinese company. Transport and Infrastructure parliamentary portfolio committee MPs asked whether the ministry had put in place measures to guard against being short-changed by a Chinese company that was doing the dualisation of the…
