Leroy Dzenga THE price of fuel has gone up – again. Barely ten days after Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) announced a fuel price increase, another upward review has been effected. A liter of petrol now costs RTGS $7.47 up from RTGS 6.10 while the price of diesel has risen from RTGS$5.84 to RTGS$7.19. (More […]
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Ralston Muchoko and Fatima Karuweni Some inmates with hearing impairments in Zimbabwe’s prisons will now be able to communicate effectively with prison officers, after undertaking a one week course in sign language at the Harare central prison. The one-week course conducted by the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services drew participants from inmates with hearing and […]
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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Zimbabwe Police have arrested one of the five suspects who, along with his accomplices, pounced on a Beitbridge foreign currency dealer’s house and robbed him over half a million Rand, US$4500 and a vehicle after shooting him eight times. Enock Nyamani (34) of Mberengwa who is based in Polokwane (South Africa) is […]
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OF all the things that can be sold one would never imagine money being sold. Well folks in Zimbabwe are being forced to use mobile money to purchase cash which is in short supply in the Southern African country. Cash merchants are making a killing as the video below reveals ….
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Hanganani Nleya As Zimbabweans are still coming to terms with news that they have been frozen out of the International Cricket Council the country’s Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Kirsty Coventry insists that Government has not interfered with the running of the game. In explaining their decision to suspend Zimbabwe and withdraw funding […]
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Makomborero Mutimukulu “AS soon as the unexplained wealth legislation that we are currently seized with comes on our statutes, criminality will cease to be an attractive venue.” These were the words of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month. In a country where authorities have a proven history of failing to walk their talk, President Mnangagwa’s […]
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Leroy DzengaTHE Zimbabwe Government has begun the process of appointing a ZESA board expected to strengthen corporate governance at the power utility and act to end the power cuts affecting the Southern African country. Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi said they have laid the criteria for who will sit on the board. “I […]
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Patience Nhamburo ZIMBABWEAN businesses and households are having to change their routines as the Southern African country battles a crippling power crisis. Most parts of the country are going for 18 hours a day without electricity and industries, small businesses and households are feeling the pain. While others are contemplating closing shops some resilient entrepreneurs […]
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THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) in the Office of the President and Cabinet will co-exist without disrupting each other`s functions, an official has said. Speaking to ZTN news in Harare on Thursday SACU head, Thabani Mpofu said the fight against corruption requires different stakeholders to work together. “The situation is […]
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Takudzwa ChihambakweZimbabwe’s Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Local Government, Public Works and National Housing will soon carry out investigations into how funds disbursed to the City of Harare by China-Exim Bank were used by the city fathers. The Chinese bank gave the city council a loan facility worth US$144 million to be used in rehabilitating Harare’s […]
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