VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga’s ex-wife, Marry will stand trial on July 29 in a matter where she is accused of trying to kill him while in hospital in South Africa. This will be her third criminal offence to proceed to trial having been convicted of one case of fraudulently trying to solemnise their marriage and…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya ngwenyar@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said although the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is mandated to fight corruption, there is also a need for it to be supervised. Speaking at the Buy Zimbabwe Public Procurement Conference in the capital, Mnangagwa said corruption remained a thorn in the flesh in public procurement processes and tasked…
ZIMBABWE’S leading business and financial paper, The Financial Gazette in partnership with Old Mutual (OM), will tonight host this year’s edition of the prestigious Top Companies Survey Awards in Harare. This year’s awards are being held under the theme: Innovating for Growth in a Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) environment. The initiative, which honours the top-performing…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT is fretting over brain drain, saying the mass exodus of professionals has reduced the country to a training ground. Most professionals have left the country in search of greener pastures. This comes as civil servants are pressing for improved salaries and working conditions and this week gave the government a two-week…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya ngwenyar@dailynews.co.zw PUBLIC sector workers have given the government a two-week ultimatum to address their salary demands, failure of which they will embark on a national strike. In a notice addressed to Public Service minister Paul Mavhima on Monday, civil servants said authorities had 14 days to adjust their salaries in line with the…
Dionne Kanyowa STAFF WRITER kanyowad@dailynews.co.zw CITIZENS Coalition for Change members Job Sikhala, and Godfrey Sithole yesterday suffered another setback in their bid for freedom after the High Court postponed their bail appeal to Thursday after the State failed to respond timeously to the duo’s application. Justice Munamato Mutevedzi was forced to postpone the matter that was…
Brighton Muronzereyi muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT yesterday said there is an increased demand for electricity in the country and they are now charging a higher tariff to people who use electricity above a certain threshold. This comes as the country continues to reel from brutal power cuts with different sectors of the economy now paying the price…
ZIMBABWE should brace for social media warfare with the country’s major political parties already fine tuning their communication media strategies to outwit each other ahead of the much-anticipated elections next year, analysts say. This comes as the ruling Zanu PF party is training their social media activists ahead of the polls in order to counter…
Brandon Josphat and Brighton Muronzereyi SCHOOLS are demanding top-up fees in both foreign and local currencies before the second term ends on August 4. They are arguing that their budgets have been eroded by inflation and the deteriorating operating environment. This comes after schools such as Queen Elizabeth High in Harare hiked their fees from…
ZANU PF politburo member, Munyaradzi Machacha has accused some ruling party bigwigs of contributing to the country’s worsening economic situation through their rent-seeking behaviour. Machacha, the head of Zanu PF’s Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology, told party followers in a closed door meeting in Masvingo at the weekend that the current economic turmoil was partly…
