THE government’s decision to privatise some public enterprises to improve efficiency and governance is the best way to cut them loose and end their over-reliance on the fiscus. Parastatals have been performing dismally with the majority of them making losses amounting to millions of US dollars for close to two decades now. Privatisation of State…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been criticised by stakeholders for the way it has been conducting elections amid allegations that the electoral body is subservient to the ruling Zanu PF party. The Daily News on Sunday Senior Staff Writer Mugove Tafirenyika last week engaged Zec chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba on these and other issues…
THE government of Zimbabwe lost millions of dollars to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) loan defaulters and fraudsters employed by Small and Medium Enterprises Development Corporation (SMEDCO), the Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has revealed. In an audit report for 2012 to 2018, Chiri said SMEDCO lost more than $2 million to loan defaulters. “My audit…
SENIOR STAFF WRITER THE spokesperson for MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, Khaliphani Phugeni has stepped down from his position following allegations of raping an unnamed woman in Bulawayo, the Daily News on Sunday reports. Last week, Phugeni, 44, who is also the MDC national spokesperson appeared before Western Commonage regional magistrate, Sibongile Marondedze, who charged him…
THE ruling Zanu PF has rged Foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo, to move with speed to engage with American president-elect Joe Biden — in a bid to mend Harare’s strained relationship with Washington, the Daily News On Sunday reports. Speaking in Harare on Friday, Zanu PF spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said although Zimbabwe was alive to…
The Ministry of Mines does not have a database of mining claims and relies on mining registration cards and monthly revenue returns for information on existent mining operations, the Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri, pictured, has said. In a statement on the value for money performance report on the management of occupational health and safety in…
SELF-STYLED People’s Democratic Party (PDP) official Benjamin Rukanda who could not be located when the High Court barred his attempt to recall Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and two councillors has now surfaced and wants the matter revisited. High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora granted an interdict against Rukanda by consent after Mafume, and councillors Simon…
THE late socialite Genius Kadungure aka Boss Ginimbi’s hearse was involved in yet another accident on Friday afternoon as his body was being carried home from a funeral parlour, his father told mourners at his burial yesterday. The late 36-year-old socialite was buried at his Domboshava mansion at a ceremony graced by notable figures who…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, is facing a rebellion from former legislators and councillors who were recently recalled from their positions by Thokozani Khupe — after he ordered them to go through primaries for the forthcoming by-elections for those posts, the Daily News reports. This comes as Chamisa…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A HARARE magistrate yesterday refused to bail the controversial leader of the suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF), Henrietta Rushwaya, and three other co-accused — in a case of alleged gold smuggling, the Daily News reports. At the same time, businessman Ali Mohamad — who is jointly charged with the four…
