ZANU-PF Mashonaland West Provincial chairman Temba Mliswa is walking a tight rope as his nemeses in the ruling party have temporarily put their differences aside to depose the outspoken politician from the hot seat. The Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal that the Mashonaland West Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) will meet…

ZIMBABWE’S capital city could turn into a “dust bowl” due to unprecedented poaching of underground water by merchants, who are depleting the water table and creating a potential freshwater crisis, the Financial Gazette can report. The situation for the capital, which harbours the highest population of any town or city…

PRICES have started going up after a hike in fuel prices triggered by an upward review of tax on fuel by government, which is desperate to raise cash to fund a tight budget. Government increased excise duty on fuel by US$0,05 with fuel service stations immediately responding by hiking prices…

ZIMBABWE’s medical aid societies are slithering into bankruptcy due to escalating medical aid claims, with a recent hike in tariffs ordered by government likely to worsen their already precarious position, industry players warned. The situation could affect at least 1,6 million Zimbabweans who still depend on medical aid, a form…

PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin’s Russia has made an emphatic and strategic move into Zimbabwe’s platinum mining sector in the Great Dyke, in the latest signal of an intensifying scramble for Zimbabwe’s minerals. Recently, Zimbabwe played host to over 50 Russians, sealing deals that span from mining, mining equipment supplies to delivery…

THREE Chinese companies intend to invest about US$5 billion towards the construction of a thermal power plant in Gwayi, Matabeleland North, a development expected to help ease power shortages in the country. The project which is also expected to include coal mining in the area, would be done in phases.…

AT least 220 Grade 7 pupils from four satellite schools in Mwenezi, including those enrolled at the newly-established Tokwe-Murkosi Primary School in Chingwizi will have to sit for their final examinations under tarpaulin tents. About 231 Early Childhood Development children and 769 pupils enrolled for Grades 1 to 7 have…

INTRA-PARTY fighting in ZANU-PF has risen to new levels with a top official in Harare alleging that factional rivals this week set her house ablaze in a bid to eliminate her. ZANU-PF Highfield East’s Mbuya Nehanda District youth chairperson, Penelope Makomeya, lost property when fire, which started in her bedroom,…

THE upcoming ZANU-PF congress is certain to go down to the wire in December as the revolutionary party is set to pick its two deputies via a secret ballot.  Only President Robert Mugabe, who is ZANU-PF’s first secretary is safe, as he has already received the endorsement for another term…

CHIEFS, who had earlier threatened to boycott their annual conference demanding brand new cars, farms and an increase in their allowances, will today take on President Robert Mugabe, hoping he will press his administration to cough up. Once described by President Mugabe as “paragons of virtue,” the traditional leaders are…