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Kereke’s empire crumbles

CONTROVERSIAL Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke’s empire is skating on thin ice with his flagship Rockfoundation Medical Centre (RMC) now on the verge of collapse following the seizure of most of its movable assets to recover a debt owed to Westchase Consultants. Westchase claims it was not paid for services…

Tsvangirai risks losing mansion

MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Morgan Tsvangirai risks being chucked out of his Highlands home because of failure to service a US$3 million loan secured from government when he was still the Prime Minister of the Republic, the Financial Gazette heard. Tsvangirai received an amount to the tune of…

ZIMRA fishes out diamond dirt

SHOCKING evidence of government’s inability to effectively police diamond mines has emerged, with confidential reports by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) exposing a sharp decline in taxes and fees due to the fiscus despite robust growth in production levels and output. At least US$1 billion in potential revenue due to…

NSSA under scrutiny

GOVERNMENT is unhappy with the way the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) is being run and is contemplating a major shake-up at the pay-as-you-go pension scheme once a new board has been put in place, the Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal. A statutory body established in terms of  the NSSA…

Shaky start to grand coalition

THE proposed merger of different political parties, civil society and churches into a grand coalition against President Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF ahead of the next general elections scheduled for 2018 elections is still to take shape with no definite matrix yet by parties involved, showing it could be a while…

Mudenda walks tight rope

JACOB Mudenda, the Speaker of Parliament, faces possibly the sternest test in his political career as he adjudicates in a potentially explosive case in which both factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) are claiming legitimacy of the troubled movement in the National Assembly, the Financial Gazette can report.…

Knives out for Biti in constituency

MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC-T) supporters and members aligned to Morgan Tsvangirai’s faction are mobilising against Tendai Biti in Harare East constituency in order to build a solid case against the party’s secretary-general that would justify his planned recall from Parliament. From the branch level up, all wings of the…

Electoral reforms to be challenged in court

A NEW voting system unveiled last week by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) faces legal hurdles amid indications that the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) will soon approach the courts to contest its constitutionality. At an all-stakeholders meeting last week, ZEC chairperson, Rita Makarau, announced that the electoral body would move…

Companies in US$170m pension arrears

PENSION funds are struggling to collect contributions from the country’s troubled corporate sector with figures from the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) indicating that US$170 million was in arrears as at December 31,2013, the Financial Gazette can report. The figure might have shot up by now as the…