In High Court case number 3376/10, a Chegutu farmer, Ignatius Ruvinga of Exwick Farm is demanding nearly US$500 000 from a subsidiary of ZESA Holdings, the Zimbabwe Electri-city Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), for failing, without reasonable cause, to maintain an efficient and economical power system which led to…

Johannesburg/Harare - Air Zimbabwe took to the skies on Monday, despite a financial suspension from the International Air Transit Association (IATA), which means its tickets were not available through the IATA's 60 000 accredited travel agents. Over the weekend reports indicated Air Zimbabwe, one of Africa's oldest airlines,…

Last month, civil servants representatives under the Civil Service Apex Council, met President Robert Mu-gabe in desperate attempts to pull out a salary increment. President Mugabe assu-red them that they would get a favourable salary review in June. The deafening silence from government corridors has now forced Tendai…

The Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (ZIBAWU) said the court challenge against the police ban was one of four possible actions to undertake as the workers in the banking sector protest poor salaries in the industry. It emerged on Tuesday that after cancelling the demonstration allegedly fearing…

NetOne sent text messages to subscribers on Wednesday last week indicating that it had cancelled Zellco's service contract with immediate effect.This was in spite of a High Court provisional order interdicting NetOne from cancelling the agreement in terms of the service agreement.The case had been set out for…

Patterson Timba, the ex-executive chairperson of Africa First ReNai-ssance Corporation (Afre Corporation), made the remark in Nove-mber last year during a dinner to celebrate a partnership deal that the insurance group's life unit, First Mutual Life (FML), had sealed with Econet Wireless Zimbabwe. Econet, the country's largest telecoms…

Senior ZANU-PF members who seat in either the politburo or the central committee - the party's most powerful organs - are at odds regarding when the country should go to the polls.Party leader, President Robert Mugabe, is adamant polls would be held this year come rain or thunder.His…

MASVINGO - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) formation, which is grappling with internecine factionalism, could lose more ground to its arch rival, ZANU-PF, in the province as the labour-backed party seems to have all but given up hope of setting up proper structures in…

Biti is expected to present the traditional budget review, which is widely expected to be a supplementary budget, anytime this month or at the beginning of July.In its contribution towards the budget, CZI said it was clear that there was need for the government to institute measures that…