The cooking oil industry has engaged the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to review the weekly allocation of US$500 000 per member at a time when the edible price has more than doubled due to opening up the world economy after two years of Covid-19 siege. Edible oil prices have risen …
Read More »Skirmishes At DRC Border As 210 Zim Drivers Go On Strike
DRC-Some 210 Zimbabwean drivers working for J&J Transport Africa have gone on strike in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) demanding US$500 monthly health allowances which their employer is allegedly withholding from them. The drivers dumped their trucks at Kasumbalesa Border Post last week and efforts to force them back …
Read More »70pc Of Karoi Councillors In The Dock For Corruption
TWENTY-FIVE years after then Local Government minister John Nkomo kicked out the entire Karoi Town Council for poor management while describing them as a bunch of jokers, the local authority has failed to shake off the clownish behaviour tag amid chaos and scandal that has seen seven out of 10 …
Read More »No Salary Increase For Family Planning Council Employees For 18 Years
ZIMBABWE National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) workers have gone for almost two decades without any salary increase, Parliament heard on Tuesday. This emerged during hearing of evidence before the Health Portfolio committee. The Zimbabwe Educational Scientific and Cultural Workers Union (ZESCWU), on behalf of the workers’ committee, had written to parliament raising …
Read More »Cricket Australia Confirm Zimbabwe Tour Schedule
Cricket Australia have released the schedule for the three-match One Day International (ODI) series against Zimbabwe set for August. Zimbabwe initially hoped to play a one-off Test match with Australia to be included in the schedule but their request was turned down by Cricket Australia due to the Aussies’ busy …
Read More »Surging Inflation Forces Zimbabwe’s Central Bank To Adjust Target
Zimbabwe’s central bank is revising its inflation forecast upward after annual price-growth surged to more than 100% this month. Factors including shortages of everything from corn to cooking oil stoked by the war in Ukraine, rising fuel prices and domestic exchange-rate volatility are reasons to adjust the outlook, Reserve Bank …
Read More »Ex-MDC Chairman To Contest Mnangagwa, Chamisa For Presidency
FORMER speaker of parliament, Lovemore Moyo, will be contesting for presidency against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former ally, Nelson Chamisa, at next year’s elections. Moyo announced this at his United Movement for Devolution (UMD) Party manifesto launch in Njube, Bulawayo on Saturday. He joins a growing list of presidential aspirants …
Read More »Harare Man Loses US$74k In Ritual Scam
A HARARE man, Gesham Mutero, allegedly lost US$74 000 to self-proclaimed foreign ritualists who had promised him that his money would multiply if he locks it in a trunk. One of the suspects, Daniel Epic Kato (20), has been arrested and Monday appeared before Harare Magistrate, Yeukai Dzuda, answering to …
Read More »Petrozim Line Sets Ambitious Targets For Msasa Depot
PETROZIM Line (Private) Limited, an entity wholly owned by the National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe, has set an ambitious target to establish Harare as the regional hub for fuel distribution. The upgrade project, according to PZL executive director Peter Masvikeni, is at an advanced stage, with detailed designs having …
Read More »Kasukuwere’s Once Thriving Orange Estate Now Lies Desolate
MAZOWE district war veterans’ chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi, who grabbed former cabinet minister and Zanu PF supremo, Saviour Kasukuwe’s Concorpia farm in Mazowe, has run the once thriving estate down. The roadside farm, like similar neighbouring estates, used to be a thrilling spectacle as one drove past, with fusing of ripening …
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