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Thabiso Mutirwara mutirwarat@dailynews.co.zw LEGISLATORS put Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on the spot on Wednesday, following his revelation that the Trabablas interchange cost a staggering US$114,3 million, significantly higher than the US$88 million initially reported in 2021. During a question and answer session in the National Assembly, Ncube faced a relentless onslaught of inquiries, leaving him…

muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have closed the Zone Gardens Nightclub beer outlet which is located at the Zanu PF district offices in Pomona, Harare, over noise pollution. In a letter dated July 8, 2025 addressed to the city of Harare, police and Zanu PF Harare provincial chairman Godwills Masimirembwa, the secretary for Presidential Affairs, Tafadzwa Muguti, said…

Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat STAFF WRITERS THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will inject more ZiG notes and coins into the market to boost the use of the local currency in the economy. This comes after ZiG transactions declined by eight percentage points in June — from 43 percent in May — threatening the current…

POLICE officers have been directed to stop forthwith from participating in the country’s passenger transport industry without authorisation.  This policy shift follows a string of public grievances and a formal inquiry which found that many law enforcement agents were associated with commuter minibus operations — violating regulations in the process. “The inquiry was instituted after…

By Rutendo Ngara TOP officials from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB), including chairperson Patrick Devenish, have applied for refusal of further remand at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. Devenish, company secretary Tariro Chitsunge, and former chief executive officer (CEO) Meanwell Gudu are facing charges of fraud and abuse of office. The trio argued…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to shun tribalism and regionalism. Speaking at the burial of late national hero Sydney Gata at the National Heroes Acre in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa called for national cohesion to be promoted at all cost as Zimbabweans were related in one way or the other. “Gata’s revolutionary consciousness grew as…

Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE decades-long relationship between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is marked by such a high level of trust that no one can separate them. So says the ruling Zanu PF’s spokesperson, Christopher Mutsvangwa, who adds that there are no tensions between the two men over the recent…

muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE late national hero, Sydney Gata, was an institutional developer who rescued the country’s energy sector from total collapse, the minister of Energy, July Moyo, has said. Gata died on Thursday after a short illness and will be buried today at the National Heroes Acre. Speaking in Harare yesterday during the late national hero’s…