BULAWAYO — Council has ratcheted up pressure on government to declare the water crisis in Zimbabwe’s second largest city a national disaster, close to a year after the municipality started a water rationing programme.Bulawayo, which falls in a low rainfall region, has perennially grappled with water shortages.City fathers…
THE ministers of Agriculture and Science have clashed over the contentious use of Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs).Agriculture Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made has ruled out the lifting of a ban on GMOs even though they could help ensure food sufficiency.There has been pressure on government to…
IT is easy to get upset and feel targeted by a decision affecting a whole country. That should have been Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai’s feeling when he reacted in anger at a Constitutional Court judgment that ordered President Robert Mugabe to ensure the country conducts its harmonised…
STATE Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi believes the country is under cyber attack and ill-equipped to deal with the problem due to lack of resources.Responding to a question in the Senate recently, Sekeramayi said the country must be prepared in terms of its scientists and resources to put in…
THE past four years of economic stability have failed to exorcise the specter of poverty that has troubled the nation for more than a decade now, a University of Zimbabwe (UZ) study has revealed.Data from 16 of the country’s 63 districts surveyed by the UZ is an embarrassing…
THE three parties in the inclusive government have failed to agree on the crafting of new laws in line with the requirements of the new Constitution.ZANU-PF and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations are poles apart over the synchronisation of a number of laws with the…
RITA Makarau, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson, is carrying the nation’s hopes on her shoulders as do-or-die elections draw near.There is no doubt that the manner in which ZEC will handle the forthcoming elections would determine whether Zimbabwe would progress or regress.A free and fair election…
THE mining industry is reeling from a plethora of challenges, including a tax regime that has stifled growth. Yet government still wants its pound of flesh from foreign-owned mining firms whom it accuses of plundering the country’s resources and doing nothing to benefit communities. The new Chamber of…
Paul Nyakazeya, Business Reporter ART Corporation’s negotiations with a South African company for a significant stake in the diversified conglomerate’s battery making subsidiaries will be concluded next month.As first reported by The Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets in February this year, Art Corporation has been negotiating with First…
Tinashe Madava, Senior Reporter ZANU-PF bigwigs are incensed by a WikiLeaks style Facebook page and website run exposé under a pseudonym Baba Jukwa. Baba Jukwa is alleging all manner of evil machinations and diabolic shenanigans by ZANU-PF bigwigs some of which have been circulating in the rumour mill…
