November 26, 2024
Of late, council has been taking measures to improve its revenue base. This take-over of the power station is seen lessening the financial haemorrhage the city has suffered as a result of high electricity costs and other overheadsLast month, the HCC signalled its desire to wrest back vehicle…
The development comes as it emerged that international US dollar transactions involving the Marange gemstones had also encountered obstacles, with sources indicating that payments were being stalled by US-based banks supporting their country’s stance against the selling of the diamonds on the international market.A banker said all international…
Sources within the mining industry and government said the move, which comes hard on the heels of a Cabinet decision limiting the mining of all alluvial diamonds to government, has been communicated to the country’s independent diamond mining firms by the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ).Zimbabwe has…
ZANU-PF insiders said President Robert Mugabe, who commands the greatest influence in the hybrid government, may give the power-sharing administration a six-month extension to placate his counterparts in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), who are not convinced Zimbabwe is ready for free and fair elections anytime soon.The…
Vehicle licensing, which used to generate the much-needed revenue for the cash-strapped council and other local authorities, was reassigned to ZINARA, a department in the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Infrastructure Development in January this year.Previously, local authorities used to collect vehicle licence fees on behalf of the…
Brighton Mugarisanwa, the disgraced diplomat, has been declared persona non grata at Munhumutapa Building, details of papers filed at the Labour Court show.Mugarisanwa, who was a counsellor at the country’s embassy in Tehran, was recalled early this year after he was allegedly drugged by two women he had…
Africa’s aviation chiefs, who wound up the organisation’s 42nd annual general assembly meeting on Thursday last week, appointed Chingosho to head the continental air transport organisation effective January 1, 2011.He replaces Ethio-pia’s Tewodros Tamrat, who has been acting secretary general since June.The airlines’ body has been undergoing an…
According to a judgment by Labour Court judge, Lillian Hove, issued last week, the Minister’s directive was in violation of the laws of natural justice.Chombo’s directive came after council had dismissed Govera, who was subsequently reinstated by the municipality’s Appeals Committee that upheld his conviction, but recommended that…
“A brand is not a product. It is the product’s essence, its meaning and its direction and it defines its identity in time and space . . . Your brand must be the expression of how your audiences understand you, your place in the market and your place…
A report by the Parliamentary Committee on Local Government, tabled in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, said there were no funds for travel and subsistence allowan-ces for the governors in the National Budget.Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Senators on Tuesday abandoned their protests at the presence of…
