MOTORISTS will start to access fuel in Zimbabwe dollars by the end of this month after President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently approved a US$15,75 million facility for use by petroleum companies. According to a recent correspondence by the acting Energy minister Janfan Muswere to oil marketing companies seen by the Daily News, the local currency fuel will “primarily…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday capped 3 290 University of Science and Technology (Nust) learners following their graduation at a ceremony that was described as a milestone for the institution. The 27th graduation was blended with only students graduating with first class degrees attending the ceremony with the rest of graduates participating virtually owing to Covid-19…
ZESA Holdings(Zesa) has embarked on a power disconnection rampage in a bid to reduce customer debt and boost its coffers — to allow the utility to replace its antiquated infrastructure and also improve its electricity generation capacity. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the acting minister of Energy and Power Development, Jenfan Muswere, said…
IN A new development, popular preacher and leader of Goodness and Mercy Ministries, Tapiwa Freddy, was yesterday arrested for allegedly raping his former broadcaster mistress. The unexpected turn of events comes a few days after Freddy had caused the arrest of ZBC radio presenter Rutendo Makuti on extortion charges. The prominent preacher appeared at the…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife Marry, has taken a two-pronged approach in search of her freedom after filing an urgent chamber application alongside a normal roll application at the High Court on Wednesday. In both applications she is challenging Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube and the State over her committal at Harare Remand Prison hospital where…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya AT LEAST eight local authorities across the country yesterday signed an implementation matrix under the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission’s (Zacc) exercise that is aimed to improve operations and fight corruption in public institutions. The local authorities that participated include Umzingwane, Mutoko, Mudzi, Makonde and Zaka rural district councils, as well as Norton, Karoi and…
THE new Parliament building in Mt Hampden is nearing completion and is expected to be operational in the second half of next year, the leader of government business in the august House and also Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. He told lawmakers on Wednesday that the contractor was now putting final touches on the…
ZANU PF bigwigs are sweating over the rising cases of violence among its supporters, with the mayhem that was witnessed in Kwekwe…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has re-affirmed Zimbabwe’s positive economic trajectory of the past two years. In a dispatch after its staff completed a virtual, month-long Zimbabwe assessment programme which ended on Tuesday, the IMF head of that mission, Dhaneshwar Ghura, noted that the economic measures being implemented by authorities were bearing fruit. This was…
THE late Zanu PF spokesperson and former Cabinet minister Simon Khaya “SK” Moyo, pictured, who died on Sunday after succumbing to cancer,…
