November 26, 2024
The financial haemorrhage at NRZ has extended into the multi-currency regime, adopted in February 2009 after the fiscal and monetary authorities took the decision to abandon the worthless local unit in favour of the South African rand and the United States dollar, with no end in sight.As it…
In a ruling passed last week, the Speaker said the country's Consti-tution requires that adverse reports must first be tabled in the Senate, with the House of Assembly being involved only if the former agrees with the critical reports.Moyo had also concluded that the current trend whereby the…
Besides Parliament adopting a motion urging reform, ZANU-PF and negotiators from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formatio-ns have also adopted the same as part of the country's roadmap to a new poll.Last year, media stakeholders also held a meeting in Kariba where they agreed that changes must…
Winter wheat production has been on the decline over the past decade as the sector faces challenges related to lack of financing, erratic power supplies and the damage suffered as a result of the marauding quelea birds.While government figures presented last week reveal that output of 42 000…
The Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal that a CMED service station at the corner of Kwame Nkrumah and Third Street in Harare, which offers services to top government officials, along with the Workington service station, were condemned by the Harare Fire Brigade some two months ago for failing…
The acerbic Moyo is likely to replace ZANU-PF's deputy secretary for legal affairs, Kembo Mohadi, in a move that has the potential of further poisoning relations within JOMIC, whose mandate is to oversee the operations of the troubled inclusive government, formed in February 2009.Mohadi, the co-Minister of Home…
ZANU-PF insiders said Mpofu was now being viewed as a threat by those whose political stars have been eclipsed by the politician who fired warning shots about his ambitions to rise to the top when he offered himself for the party's vice presidency following the death of Joseph…
The minister was detained at the police cells in June on grounds that he had insulted President Robert Mugabe by calling him a liar.He was subsequently released in line with High Court Judge Justice Joseph Musakwa's ruling which said the detention was unlawful, unjustified and violated his constitutional…
Biti also revealed that his interventions to save the health delivery sector, which had virtually collapsed before the formation of the inclusive government in February 2009, have also failed, leaving the sector facing a dire drug situation."Ideally, stocking levels for vital, essential and necessary medicines should be 100…
A review of the GWP for the first half of the year by the Prime Minister shows that out of the 36 line ministries, five have failed to submit their monthly progress reports.These are Foreign Affairs headed by Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Media, Information and Publicity under Webster Shamu; Lands…
