May 18, 2024
THE decision by the House of Assembly and the Senate to adopt the Constitutional Bill brings far reaching changes to the governance of the country and grants citizens greater say in the affairs of their country.The draft introduces term limits for the President, service chiefs, and permanent secretaries…
TelOne, the country’s fixed telecommunications network operator, is understood to have been rocked by a scandal involving the diversion of employee benevolent funds to a microfinance institution, prejudicing employees, The Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets (C&M) can report.Well placed sources said the benevolent fund, from which workers benefited…
This deals another body blow to the minister who is under increasing pressure over his porous policies.In a report, the PLC said in crafting the regulations, the minister went beyond the powers vested in him by the enabling Act. The committee said the regulations sought to create a new…
As the country prepares for make-or-break elections later this year, the RG’s Office, headed by Tobaiwa Mudede, rolled out a mobile voter registration exercise late last month which is expected to end on Saturday next week. But already, there are concerns that the exercise could be a harbinger…
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association’s secretary for information and publicity, James Kaunye on Wednesday told The Financial Gazette that his association was aware that some power hungry individuals within the party were plotting against the ZANU-PF leader in a bid to take over, but warned that…
While Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, army commander Constantine Chiwenga and police chief Augustine Chihuri, the main players in the security sector establishment, could not be reached for comment yesterday, in the past two weeks they have been adamant that there will be no security sector reforms in the…
The top soldier has waded into a land dispute in Mashonaland East involving businessman, Ben Choto and one Richard Mandiranga, whom he is siding.Sango wants the property in question to be handed to Mandiranga and recently appeared to cast aspersions in the manner Mashonaland East Provincial Governor and…
Keen to avoid another bhora musango scenario, ZANU-PF at the weekend held a marathon Politburo meeting where it was resolved that paid-up members who have been in the party for at least five years were free to contest in primary elections, opening the floodgates for a lot of…
After independence, when the country’s economy was in shape and the euphoria of self-rule gave a feeling that everything was possible after all, the employment division was the place to be for one in search of work because many left smiling at the end of the day.But times…
An earlier report compiled by the police implicated some members of the Manicaland provincial executive in acts of stock theft and fraud involving US$700 000 sourced from companies extracting diamonds in the controversial Chiadzwa area.The revelations caused the suspension of provincial chairperson, Mike Madiro, his deputy, Dorothy Mabika,…
