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The Pan-African Parliament Southern African caucus yesterday officially nominated Chiefs Council president, Fortune Charumbira, as their sole candidate to contest as president of the continental legislative body, paving way for him to stand unopposed if the Northern African caucus does not field a candidate. The nomination by his region also …

Opposition political parties have demanded that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya resign, accusing them of crafting anti-poor policies that are worsening the plight of the majority in the country. Economists yesterday took a dig on government’s 200% interest rate hike on bank …

Late law expert and former advisor to the Prime Minister, Alex Magaisa, who died earlier this month was Tuesday laid to rest at his rural home in Njanja. Magaisa, an ardent but respected critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu-PF government, succumbed to cardiac arrest on June 5 in the United …

Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has revealed that Parliament has no documentation proving that Harare and Belarus signed an agreement to procure fire tenders on behalf of local authorities as initially claimed by government. This follows Local Government ministry secretary Zvinechimwe Churu’s letter to all councils informing them of a …

Zimbabwe’s state-owned electricity transmission company ramped up blackouts on Tuesday because of a technical fault in a thermal power station in the country’s west. Power cuts will be increased until July 1, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Co said in an emailed statement. The Hwange Thermal Power Station is …

THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) needs to accelerate the adoption of modern technological systems and applications in line with its envisaged “smart prison” concept, President Mnangagwa has said. Under the smart prison concept, ZPCS is benchmarking its services within the framework of international prison standards and management trends. …

BULAWAYO – An unlikely row has erupted between Bulawayo’s provincial medical director and the director general of the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency over the payment of allowances for enumerators who conducted the 2022 national census. An estimated 30,000 people, mainly civil servants, were drafted for the 10-day exercise in April. …

Zimbabwe is now grounded, faced with a dying healthcare system and a collapsed education sector as evidenced by the on-going job action and dilapidated infrastructure reminiscence of the 2006-2008 situation, ex-cabinet ministers have said. The rot in the health delivery system and the education sector came out in the open …

ZIMBABWE’S bid to be re-admitted into the Commonwealth group of nations appears to have flopped after the economic bloc snubbed the Southern African country. The Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting ended in Kigali, Rwanda, on Saturday with deafening silence on Zimbabwe’s re-admission bid. The Commonwealth, however, admitted two former French …

Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube has announced measures deemed necessary to stabilise the exchange rate and control the inflation rate which has reached the 191.6% mark. In his address to the nation through a press conference Monday morning, Prof. Ncube said the multi-currency system will remain …