November 26, 2024
Information obtained by The Financial Gazette suggests that there have been surreptitious manoeuvres by the MTCID officials to undermine ZimHighways Consor-tium (Pvt) Limited, a company awarded the tender to dualise and toll the Beitbridge-Harare road, arguably southern Africa's busiest transit road.The government has balked from signing the concession…
The new turn of events follows the transfer of the management of Mutumwa's empire from the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs to the Mines Ministry.The new arrangement came after Mawere fought running battles with Justice Minister, Patrick Chinamasa over the Zvishavane-based asbestos mine.The placement of SMM under…
Miffed by reports that his nephew had bounced back into the party to contest for the provincial chairperson's post in Mashonaland West, the ZANU-PF leader is said to have summoned the party's national chairperson, Simon Khaya-Moyo; secretary for administration, Didy-mus Mutasa and political commissar, Webster Shamu among other…
The search for answers might result in Public Works permanent secretary, Engineer George Mlilo and his boss, Minister Joel Gabuza Gabbhuza, being quizzed over the issue. A permanent secretary is the accounting officer of a ministry. It is alleged that Engineer Mlilo and Gabbhuza last year contracted Group…
Sibanda, who has been campaigning for ZANU-PF across Masv-ingo since last year denies the allegations, saying it was cheap propaganda emanating from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).But ZANU-PF insiders in the province are adamant Sibanda has ruffled feathers of senior politicians…
A communiqué from the South African Diamond & Precious Metals Regulator (SAD-PMR) to members said the country was rallying behind its beleaguered neighbour, a position that appears to support the stance taken by diamond producers from the African continent."South Africa has taken a position in support of Zimbabwe…
This is despite interest from several low-budget airline firms stampeding to break into Zimbabwe's turbulent market whose casualties include beleaguered national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim)."There are only two registered private airlines registered by Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ), which are Solenta Aviation Zimbabwe and Avient Aviation,…
Sudan split into two - North and South - in January this year following a referendum in which more than 90 percent of the population supported the cessation of the South after decades of a protracted war for independence.The process of establishing government structures is now underway in…
The two MDC formations, which are part of an inclusive government with ZANU-PF, had also suggested that the former combatants' portfolio be removed from the Ministry of Defence, which is currently in charge of their welfare.The two former opposition political parties that broke ZANU-PF's uninterrupted rule in 2009…
The counter-strategy follows President Robert Mugabe's dispatch on Friday and Saturday of envoys to Angola and Mozambique to lobby the influential SADC leaders as ZANU-PF seeks to reverse the gains of the premier scored in the last SADC Troika in Zambia in which it was stated that the…
