PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe will forge ahead with plans to ditch the multi- currency regime for the greater good of the Country’s economy. With the multi-currency regime set to end at the end of 2025 against the backdrop of financial institutions refusing to advance US dollar beyond this date, the government has been…
By Ketty Nyoni AN International Monetary Fund (IMF) team is expected in Zimbabwe later this month to assess how best Zimbabwe can be assisted with a new Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP). SMP is an informal agreement between an IMF member country and the financier’s staff to monitor the member country’s economic programmes. The programme can help…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says the opposition party has resolved that all its deployees in the National Assembly, Senate and local authorities should disengage for two weeks from the public offices with immediate effect. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, Chamisa said the elected public officials in last August’s general elections…
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe says the police recorded over 290 000 criminal cases in the country in the first eight months of this year. This, he said, was a serious cause of concern and the law enforcement agency needed to urgently intervene and combat the scourge. Addressing senior police officers in Harare yesterday, Kazembe…
THE 16th edition of Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo opens in Bulawayo today with a packed schedule of intense business engagement sessions as Zimbabwe seeks to capitalise on the showcase to drive higher tourism earnings. The annual exhibition runs from today to October 14 at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) grounds under the theme: “Tourism…
By Ketty Nyoni IN the first half of this year, Zimbabwe recorded 32 level crossing accidents which saw four people being killed, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has confirmed. Speaking at the launch of the Southern African Railway Association (SARA) Railway Safety Week in Harare yesterday, NRZ acting general manager Ainah Dube-Kaguru said the…
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl from Glen View in Harare has been sentenced to three years in prison after she was found guilty of sexually assaulting two boys, aged eight and six. The minor was facing a charge of aggravated indecent assault. During her trial, the State told the court that the girl, who resides at the…
THE chaos-ravaged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is faced with two equally undesirable alternatives in the wake of the debilitating recall of 15 of its legislators from Parliament this week. So say political analysts, who told the Daily News yesterday that both withdrawing all the party’s legislators from Parliament in protest at the recalls, or…
RIOT police were called into the National Assembly yesterday to eject rowdy Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators. The chaotic scenes came after Speaker Jacob Mudenda announced the recalling of 15 of the party’s MPs by CCC’s “interim secretary-general” Sengezo Tshabangu. Mkoba North legislator, Amos Chibaya, immediately questioned the development, saying the leadership of CCC…
A MAN from Mutare, who has been in remand custody since his arrest last month, for allegedly insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has been granted free bail. Elroy Anesu Muchaya, 26, of Sakubva suburb was arrested last month and charged with undermining the authority of or insulting the President as defined under the Criminal Law Act….
