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Looting spree at REA

THE board and management of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) is embroiled in a US$4 million scandal whereby they extended to themselves and other connected private citizens loans amounting to close to US$4 million, the Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal. Of that amount, US$2,5 million was extended to connected citizens while…

ZBC reaches tipping point

THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has reached tipping point after Treasury withdrew budgetary support at a time when the national broadcaster is in dire straits due to a number of factors that include mismanagement. This development comes as the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services has instituted an audit at…

Tsvangirai nears endgame?

THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) is now caught between a rock and a hard place as factional winds blow.On the one hand, the party is now heavily fractured as cracks are emerging following questions over the capabilities of its leader Morgan Tsvangirai.Yet at the same time, the former trade…

Company closures to worsen

GOVERNMENT has been warned of more company closures this year due to lack of budgetary support for industry amid accusations that there is no political will to solve the deepening industrial crisis, the Financial Gazette has learnt.While industries have collapsed under the weight of a crippling liquidity crunch that has…

Gono alleges malice in Kereke case

FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has responded to a Constitutional case in which he is accused by a former advisor Munyaradzi Kereke of corruption and misconduct, saying the application against him and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) was “short on the law but long on heat,…