November 28, 2024
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive officer, Happyson Muchechetere, must count himself lucky judging by the way his court appearance was handled. Muchechetere was recently quizzed by the police in connection with a corruption case in which the State is said to have been prejudiced of US$800…
BARELY three months ago, he was a deputy treasurer-general, whom many thought was mild, malleable and agreeable to Morgan Tsvangirai’s leadership of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T). Today, after two damning letters, the first of which candidly advised the party leader to step down, Elton Mangoma stands…
ZIMBABWE’S unemployment rate is set to worsen this year as over 2000 workers could be laid off by the end of this month. Official data gleaned by the Financial Gazette shows that over 120 firms applied to the Retrenchment Board last year for permission to retrench while more…
REPORTS that the Registrar General (RG)’s Office would not be handing over the current voters’ register to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), but that the latter would have to come up with its own, could give credence to allegations that the voters’ roll used in the last election…
ALL of a sudden the plush jobs are not so plum anymore. The pickings no longer as rich. From a mountain top of US$15 000 all the way up to US$40 000 and an incredible US$500 000 a month to tumble down in free fall all the way…
MUNICIPAL activist, Philosophy Nyapfumbi, who staged a week-long hunger strike against the City of Harare Town Clerk, Tendai Mahachi last month, says he would resume the strike tomorrow if Harare mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni fails to provide a favourable response that addresses the plight of residents in a crunch…
WHEN former Masvingo governor, Dzikamai Mavhaire, was appointed Minister of Energy and Power Development by President Robert Mugabe last year, he quickly became the butt of many jokes in town. (more…)
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CONTRARY to the widely held belief that the august House opened by President Robert Mugabe in September last year would turn out to be a damp squib, after the ruling ZANU-PF raked in a majority of seats in the National Assembly, the eighth Parliament is so far showing…
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe recently revealed that a Cabinet minister and a legislator had recently demanded a bribe from a foreign investor and vowed that heads would roll over the latest graft charges. The President’s revelation comes after he made a similar damning charge at ZANU-PF’s December 2012 national…
DISCLOSURES by diamond firms operating in Marange that they were not aware of the existence of the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust point to the possibility of a wider scam on the indigenisation crusade, critics have warned. Government established a number of community share ownership schemes across the…
