GOVERNMENT is still administering a condemned anti-retroviral (ARV) drug to tens of thousands of people living with HIV, three years after the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended it be taken off the treatment regimen because of its toxic effects.…
GWERU — Recent payments of debts owed to seed houses and fertiliser companies for inputs advanced to government in previous agricultural seasons has breathed life into the agricultural sector.Prior to this, government owed fertiliser companies US$32 million in unpaid debts while seed houses were owed around US$18 million.…
ZANU-PF Rushinga Senator Damian Mumvuri has said traditional chiefs need to be schooled in the dictates of the new Constitution as they are violating the supreme law of the land through some of their judgments.…
Complainant develops cold feetTHE high profile US$6 million bribery case implicating former Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) chairperson, Goodwills Masimirembwa hangs in the balance and may actually collapse, amidst reports that the complainant is developing cold feet, the Financial Gazette can reveal.…
CLASHES between ZANU-PF factions in the politically restive Manicaland Province might scuttle the supposed elevation of veteran freedom fighter, Shadreck Chipanga to the Senate seat left vacant following the death of Kumbirai Kangai in August.…
AT a time when a number of ministers are experiencing nightmares over constrained funding for some of their departments due to the precarious nature of government’s finances, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Obert Mpofu must be counting himself lucky.…
. . . as diamond looters face the musicTHE government, which is battling a severe cash crunch amid escalating pressures on the expenditure side especially from the civil servants, this week said every cent from diamond proceeds must be accounted for with all those found on the wrong side of…
ANXIETY has gripped workers in the government-owned media, some of whom have lived to tell of staff movements, retrenchments and dismissals during Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Jonathan Moyo’s previous assignment to the same ministry between 2000 and 2005.…
Made in tight spotWITH President Robert Mugabe under pressure to leave a lasting and impressionable legacy after leading the country for more than three decades that saw Zimbabwe’s fortunes plummeting from being a regional breadbasket to a basket case, the veteran nationalist has uncharacteristically started to crack the whip to…
AFRICAN Sun Limited (ASL), the country’s largest player in the hospitality sector has sold part of its equity in Dawn Properties Limited to Lengrah Investments (Private) Limited, the Financial Gazette can report.…