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INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza yesterday warned retailers engaging in conditional selling of subsidised roller meal that the recently-enacted Consumer Protection Act will ensure the perpetrators are brought to book. Nzenza said this during a business breakfast forum jointly organised by the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) and Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) —…

INDUSTRIALIST and National Competitiveness Commission (NCC) chairperson Kumbirai Katsande yesterday castigated service stations for selling fuel to card holders only at the expense of other consumers. The fuel situation in the country has remained dire, with motorists having to wait days on end to get either petrol or diesel. Katsande raised concerns over the selective…

A SECURITY guard at top lawyer Tawanda Nyambirai’s farm, who allegedly poisoned 544 cattle there, resulting in the death of 144, appeared in court yesterday. Paradzai Kamwaza appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa charged with malicious damage to property and animal cruelty. The matter was postponed to February 7 after Kamwaza disputed the age supplied…

THE National Business Council of Zimbabwe (NBCZ) has implored the government to ensure that the roller meal subsidy programme is run in a transparent manner. In December last year, the government and millers reached an agreement which saw the retail price of maize-meal drop to $50 per 10kg, after the Finance ministry undertook to pay…

THE Bulawayo leather cluster factory is targeting the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) regional market after securing its first order to Namibia. The factory became operational in May last year after receiving €250 000 funding from the European Union through the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa). In an interview with the Daily…

THE State was yesterday slammed for failing to access a policy document from Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission which is material for the prosecution of ex-minister Ignatius Chombo in a case he is accused of illegally facilitating the sale of a government house in Mutare to ex-Zanu PF legislator Fred Kanzama. Chombo, who is jointly charged with…

A HARARE man was yesterday slapped with a 10-day prison term after using obscene language to insult President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his “vegetables” jibe. Tapiwa Chiroodza, 31, who runs a car wash at Divaris Shopping Centre in Belvedere pleaded that he was under the influence of alcohol and did not mean what he had said…

WAR veterans are demanding an independent commission to oversee their welfare to replace the current Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Board. This emerged at a Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Bill public consultations held by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence and Home Affairs in the city yesterday. The committee is on a national tour…

THREE City of Harare officials who allegedly illegally sold residential stands worth US$765 000 to people in Kuwadzana appeared in court yesterday. Believer Mupawaenda, 46, Rudo Chigocha, 45, and Margaret George, 31, were released on $1 000 bail each when they appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa charged with fraud. As part of bail conditions…