April 22, 2024
President Mugabe, who has since 2010 been calling for fresh polls to end the coalition government, now has the green light to skip the by-elections and call for harmonised polls in March 2013.In his court papers, President Mugabe, who had been given until October 1 to call for…
Workers at some of the struggling companies warned this week that they may end up filing for liquidation after going for several months without being paid in what would essentially put the last nail in their coffin.ZANU-PF has since independence in 1980 invested in real estate, listed and…
SADC’s organ on Politics, Defence and Security, otherwise known as Troika, chaired by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, had proposed a meeting for October 7 to specifically deal with the crisis around Zimbabwe’s constitution-making process, which has taken more than three years of painstaking negotiations.But The Financial Gazette can…
Highly placed sources claimed this week that Rautenbach deposed the concessions, said to have been secured from President Robert Mugabe’s government before the consummation of the unity government for about US$100 million, to some Kazakhstan nationals, drawing the wrath of the ZANU-PF side of the coalition.ZANU-PF is against…
“Now that together we are on the last long haul, we still need to maintain our vigilance,” wrote the PM.“A political transition, as an interval between chaos and order, is generally a period of uncertainty; it offers saboteurs an opportunity to try out all forms of tricks to…
ZARF, in a survey of the country’s urban consumer market released on Tuesday, said Fingaz’s readership climbed to four percent during the review period, from three percent during the fourth quarter of 2011, as the publication fortified its leadership position.The last time the survey was conducted was in…
Two distinct camps have emerged within the civil servants unions with reports indicating that some unionists want an outright strike before public examinations, which commence in October while others want to keep engaging government.Teachers, in particular, are not happy with their monthly salaries that are far below the…
Chimombe was among 12 councillors booted out of the MDC-T last month on allegations of corruption and abuse of office following an internal commission of inquiry.Harare deputy mayor, Emmanuel Chiroto and Zvishavane Town council chairperson, Alluwis Zhou were among those that were caught up in the anti-corruption dragnet.Chimombe…
Child mortality in Zimbabwe currently stands at 925 deaths per every 100 000 births.Studies have shown that child under nutrition in Zimbabwe is as a result of poor dietary intake and disease blamed on sub optimal feeding practices, especially during the critical periods of pregnancy, infancy and young…
In Mangwe district, villagers accuse the District Administrator (DA), Felicity Gangada, of favouring ZANU-PF supporters ahead of everybody else in distributing grain under the government’s grain loan scheme meant to avert starvation after the country recorded a poor harvest in the past cropping season.Kakaka Ndlovu, a councillor for…
