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THE United Nations (UN) report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Zimbabwe says the country has failed to explain alleged human rights abuses and enforced disappearances. The UN reviewed Zimbabwe’s human rights situation on January 12, 2022, through a troika comprising Armenia, Luxembourg and Namibia that …

CANDIDATES eyeing top Zanu PF women’s league posts are allegedly scared to challenge Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa due to her alleged close links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The ruling party’s women’s league will hold its elective conference from June 23 to 26. Women in the party angling for top posts …

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s former finance minister Christopher Tichaona Kuruneri has died. He was 73. Kuruneri, who had a very public battle with diabetes, died on Saturday, May 28, his family announced. In a statement, the family said it was “gratefully overwhelmed by the flood of heart-warning messages of condolence, support …

DOCUMENTS have unwittingly exposed how the government through several of its agencies pressured Harare City Council into a murky US$400 million Pomona waste management deal that has riled stakeholders who are now calling for it to be stopped as it will see the city losing millions of dollars. The deal …

Government’s intervention in the economy has failed to improve market performance as its policy measures   have not arrested unrelenting  inflation, haemorrhage exchange rate and currency volatilities, which are ravaging the economy. The observation was made by multiple economists and captains of industry who spoke to Business Times. The economic inefficiency, which resulted in …

Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry has been rocked by a scandal involving  contractors collecting insurance premiums from unsuspecting farmers contracted under them, prejudicing the growers, Business Times can report. Multiple players told Business Times this week that the contractors, who are not authorised to transact insurance business, were  not remitting  the premiums,  which range from US$70 to US$120 per …

Zanu-PF has shut its doors on exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of being arrogant and disrespectful to party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Kasukuwere fled the country into self-imposed exile alongside other G40 members, who include former ministers Jonathan Moyo, Walter Mzembi and Patrick Zhuwao following the November 2017 …

CIVIL servants under the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) are this Friday set to march against government’s continued reluctance to pay them in US dollars. Worries emanating from biting inflation and their devalued salaries have been ignored by government according to ZCPSTU. In a statement, ZCPSTU organising …

Zimbabwe is taking steps to tackle an inflation rate that’s jumped to 132% after its currency slumped, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said.   “We are instituting measures that every other country in the world is instituting,” Ncube said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Manus Cranny and Yousef Gamal El-Din …

Anti-sanctions lobby group Broad Alliance Against Sanctions (BAAS) has handed over letters to the American Embassy in Zimbabwe inviting African-American congressional members to visit the country and witness the negative impact of US-imposed sanctions. “The first letter that we submitted was to the ambassador, whereby we were asking him to …