In its latest report, council said it had identified 14 unauthorised base stations that were either erected on virgin council land, private properties or mounted on its tower lights.“The director of Engineering Services reported that it had come to our attention that Telecel Zimbabwe Ltd had been developing…

His brother, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo told The Financial Gazette this week that VP Nkomo, whose condition sources say is serious, is undergoing treatment in Cape Town but is not hospitalised.“No, he is not in hospital. He is undergoing chemo (chemotherapy) from home but his condition has really improved,”…

In its end of year report, the Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance queried the Ministry of Finance’s projected revenues of US$392 million from customs this year which do not reflect the present volume of imports to Zimbabwe.Import duty is one of the key revenue centres for the…

With harmonised elections expected within six months, there is no movement on the election roadmap spearheaded by the Southern African Development Community (SADC).The four-year old inclusive government that came into being courtesy of pressure from the regional grouping, has also seen its fair share of problems and is…

Delivering a speech to ZANU-PF delegates at the party’s annual national conference last month, President Mugabe singled out members of the police force’s traffic section who have become unpopular for demanding bribes from moto-rists.Graft within the force has not been confined to the traffic section alone but cuts…

With this year’s polls expected to be a winner-take-all affair, ZANU-PF has oiled its machinery to go all out in mass mobilisation campaigns and will target religious groups as they easily pull large numbers of people at any given time. Religious groups are an important constituency in the…

Family lawyer, Thakor Kewada who represented the Mujurus at an inquest into the death of the late general last year told The Financial Gazette this week that there were no new developments on the matter.“At the moment there is a standstill. I can’t say much about it right…

The development comes as the country’s main political parties — ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations — are yet to come up with dates for the conduct of their own primary polls to select candidates to represent them in the main elections — an indication…

Accusations and counter-accusations have dogged the handling of revenues from Chiadzwa diamond exp-orts ever since the government seized the hugely prolific fields from the private sector in 2006. The discord worsened following the formation of a coalition government in February 2009, with head of the exchequer, Tendai Biti,…

The incumbent was sworn in on June 28, 2008 following a controversial one-man presidential election run-off after Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai boycotted the race citing alleged State-sponsored violence his formation of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) claim killed about 200 of his supporters.With the Southern African…