January 23, 2025
The vitriol came after Biti, in his budget review statement in February, said “the death of the Zimbabwe dollar is a reality we have to live with”, while Mangoma said an economic cluster set up as part of the 100-Day Action Plan had decided to shelve the use…
Munyaradzi Mugowo, Staff ReporterThe Zimbabwe Pho-sphate Industries (Zim-Phos) has struck a deal with Harare city council to construct a water treatment plant at Cleveland Dam that would alleviate chronic water cuts affecting the country's sole supplier of phosphates.The project entails the resuscitation of an old water treatment plant…
An extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of shareholders is expected to be convened next week to vote on the planned transaction.It was not immediately clear how much the directors planned to raise through the private placement, but the notice to shareholders said directors were hoping not only to benefit…
World Bank vice president for Africa, Obiageli Ezekwesili, said some US$22 million in grants from the bank were being spent on behalf of donors through international agencies, aid and church groups to help small farmers and the poor.Media reports this week said the World Bank would make its…
The incident took place in cells at Harare Central Police Station last month.Police national spokesperson, senior assistant commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena, could only confirm that the quartet would appear in court on May 29, as he was still verifying the facts.Harare lawyer, Tendai Hangazha however, said the policemen brutalised…
Correspondence to Zuma, the SADC chair and newly sworn-in South African President and the AU chairperson, Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, to intervene in a stalemate that might collapse the three-month-old inclusive government followed a resolution by the MDC-T’s national executive council at the weekend which resolved to refer…
The alliance between Masiyiwa and Moxon is widely seen as marking a turn in relations between the Econet boss and his long-time friend, Chanakira, who is not happy with plans to de-merge Kingdom from the assets predominantly owned by the Meikles family.This week Econet Wireless moved to end…
The announcement might put to rest public anxiety and growing political impatience across the board over ZANU-PF's commitment to the power-sharing agreement.It may also widen the internecine fights within ZANU-PF and the two camps of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) should their senior members feel short-changed.The thorny…
Monday’s arrests also came hard on the heels of a media conference held in Kariba last week to stop the harassment of scribes and repeal or amend repressive media laws that have been used by the State to muzzle press freedom.The conference, attended by government officials, media executives…
The development threatens to further widen the rifts within the party that split from Prime Minister Tsvangirai-led MDC-T in 2005 following internal squabbles over the decision on whether to participate or not in elections for Senate.Last week, the MDC-M suspended three Members of Parliament: Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi West);…
