May 7, 2024
While the Harare City Council is mulling an intensive water disconnecting blitz on government departments, residents and businesses, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is piling up pressure on the government of national unity to pay up what it owes as the financially hamstrung municipality battles to keep in…
The two have been cited as the first and second respondents in a case filed at the High Court on May 7 by Moven Kupa and The Voice for Democracy Trust.The application said 41 persons entered the inclusive government as ministers in February last year as opposed to…
A report by the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPC) indicates that 88 percent of the business written last year was controlled by the industry’s top 10 players with the bottom placed 22 companies controlling 12 percent of the GPW share.Twelve out of the 32 companies in the sector…
TA Holdings controls 100 percent of Cresta Hospitality Holdings, Cre-sta Hospitality (Private) Limited and Cresta Hotels.It also owns a 35 percent interest in Botswana registered Cresta Marakanelo.TA chief finance officer, Bothwell Nyajeka told shareholders last week that average room rates in Zimbabwe had increased to US$52 from US$37…
Mangoma told delegates attending a conference to explore ways of revamping the inefficient national statistical system in Harare last week that his ministry had for the past 15 months been depending on guess work.“We often make wild guesses,” he said. “Even in my ministry, we cannot tell…
Sources in the coalition government told The Financial Gazette that the ZMC would hold crucial board meetings between Monday and Wednesday and an announcement on successful applicants would be made on the last day, paving the way for the establishment of new newspapers and other mass media…
A mediation team assembled by South African President, Jacob Zuma, has over the past three weeks been cooling its feet in the hope that the once sworn enemies in the Zimbabwe crisis would meet to digest the points of departure between their parties and reach a political rapprochement.But…
Impeccable sources told The Financial Gazette this week that although the country has traditionally held its national elections in March, Zimbabweans were most likely to go to the polls in May 2011 this time around in order to unlock the logjam created by the inconclusive elections held in…
Negotiators from ZANU-PF and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) concluded talks on April 3 and gave their final report to President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and Zuma, the Southern African Development Community-appointed mediator.But Lindiwe Zulu, Zuma’s…
Chris Mtangadura, the chief law officer in the AG’s Office, confirmed that he was in the process of appealing against Bennett’s acquittal yesterday, immediately courting the wrath of the MDC-T, which accused his office of pursuing a political agenda against its members.The State’s latest move is likely to…
