PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday extended the use of the multi-currency to 2030. The multi-currency was expected to end in 2025. According to the Statutory Instrument (SI) 218 of 2023 published in the Government Gazette yesterday, Mnangagwa said the multi-currency system had been extended to December 31, 2030. “His Excellency the President, in terms of section…
MARRY Mubaiwa, who is on trial facing charges of attempting to kill her former husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has engaged a new lawyer, Harrison Nkomo, after her previous lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, renounced agency on Thursday. Mubaiwa appeared before Ha rare Magistrate Feresi Chakany uka yesterday, where she told the court that she had secured…
By Brandon Josphat VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, says there is no room for a government of national unity (GNU) as Zanu PF won the August elections resoundingly. Speaking during the ongoing Zanu PF national people’s conference in Gweru, Chiwenga said those who were calling for a GNU were day dreaming as the ruling party…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) says it owes farmers an estimated US$25 million and $20 billion in local currency from last season’s grain deliveries. Speaking at an Agriculture ministry 2024 pre-budget portfolio committee meeting this week, the GMB finance director, Clemence Guta, admitted that the failure to pay farmers on time adversely…
ZIMBABWE, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), is home to over one million child brides, with one in three young women having been married in childhood. And in a bid to change this trend, Unicef Zimbabwe has launched a communication campaign; “Nothing for Us, With Us”, for adolescents aged between 10 and 19…
By Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT says it is crafting a consumers’ protection policy that will complement the existing Consumer Protection Act. Speaking at the on-going Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) annual conference in Harare, Industry minister Sithembiso Nyoni said her ministry is reviewing the Zimbabwe National Industrial Development Policy.“In order to drive structural transformation, the…
By Rutendo Ngara VICE President Constantino Chiwenga says Zimbabwe remains ‘unapologetic’ for taking its land from former colonisers, but the sanctions, imposed on the country by the West more than 20 years ago, must be unilaterally removed. Zimbabwe embarked on a land reform programme in 2000 which resulted in most former white commercial farmers losing…
POWER utility Zesa has announced that the current depressed electricity generation across the country is due to technical faults and routine maintenance of the recently commissioned Unit 7 at Hwange Thermal Power Station. This comes as most parts of the country have been experiencing daily load shedding of as much as eight to 10-hours.In a…
POLICE have arrested six people on charges of leaking and cheating in the current Zimbabwe Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary and Advanced levels examinations. Among those arrested is 52-year-old George Bukuta, who was allegedly caught writing an ex amination for Shadreck Mutsau, 28, at LifeLong College in Harare. “After being apprehended, Bukuta confessed that he had…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned Zanu PF members that the ruling party will not tolerate any arrogant cadres as they are not the founding fathers of the former revolutionary organisation. Addressing the ruling Zanu PF central committee in Harare ahead of the party’s national people’s conference which starts in Gweru…
