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Chamisa wins MDC presidency 'unopposed'

Nelson Chamisa has secured the backing of all the party's 13 provincial structures, as he looks set to become the party's second president following the death of Morgan Tsvangirai in February last yea...

By ZimLive | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Passports production has resumes

The production of passports has resumed following a system malfunction which was rectified on Friday. The Registrar General's office is now producing 8 000 passports a day as it struggles to clear the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo residents attack MDC's 'authoritarian' mayor

RESIDENTS here have taken a dig at Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni for rejecting objections to his mooted tariff hike.The city fathers have been conducting supplementary budget consultative meetings, ahe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

BCC, Zinara in $15m Bulawayo roads rehab project

THE City of Bulawayo in conjunction with Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has embarked on a $15 million joint roads rehabilitation programme which is likely to spruce up the city's poth...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Building material prices up 54%

Prices of building materials have gone up by 54,28 percent in the first quarter of 2019, a move which will spike construction costs for prospective homeowners, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Air Zimbabwe assures safety despite fire incident

Air Zimbabwe has assured the nation and the international  community of its commitment to the safety of passengers despite its only aircraft, the Boeing 767 200 ER had a fire spark mid-air on Fri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

5 MDC bigwigs face their end

OUT of the eight MDC bigwigs vying for the position of vice president (VP) in the party, five of them will be condemned to ordinary card-carrying members if they lose their bids, the Daily News can re...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

Chamisa makes major climbdown

One of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's three deputies will be a woman after the party resolved to set aside the position for female candidates yesterday.Chamisa has been nominated unopposed by 11 out of t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

Chiefs reject Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi plan

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cocktail of measures to pacify the south-western parts of the country that bore the brunt of the 1980s massacres by the army have been greeted by strident opposition fro...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

MDC Alliance rifts widen

Rifts continue to widen in the MDC-Alliance as the opposition party has been rocked by mistrust among senior party members, with eyebrows being raised over a mysterious advertisement that was flighted...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Bread price talks on the cards

THE Government will this week meet with bakers and millers to discuss the recent increase in bread prices which it feels is unfair and unjustified and map a way forward to come up with an affordable p...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa must be given some respect, says Eddie Cross

Former Bulawayo South member of Parliament and MDC national executive member Mr Eddie Cross says President Mnangagwa's administration has not received due credit for reforms that he has undertaken in ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Online legal advice now on Zimbabwe market

LawBasket is a start-up from Zimbabwe, providing online legal services on the market for small businesses and start-ups in Africa. The company also offers free client relationship management technolog...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Mangoma, Zesa bosses deny fraud charges

Former Energy minister Elton Mangoma on Thursday said charges that he unprocedurally awarded a $3 million contract to a South Korean firm have been fabricated, based on falsehoods and designed to hara...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

Bulawayo residents vow to resist BCC rates hike

BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to threats by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to forge ahead with rates and tariff increases due to runaway inflation despite resistance from ratepayers.The BCC...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

OPINION

RBZ sabotaging Zimbabwe economic recovery

WHEN Mthuli Ncube was appointed Finance and Economic Development minister, he quickly took charge at the ministry, appointing a new permanent secretary and several directors and publishing a Transitio...

By Eddie Cross | Published: 29 April 2019

OPINION

Mnangagwa must urgently act on worsening economic crisis

THE political and socio-economic crises in Zimbabwe is slowly edging towards the tipping point as espoused by the Registrar-General (RG) Office's failure to issue passports and standard national ID ca...

By Editorial - Newsday | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

Zanu-PF starts conference preps

Zanu-PF has begun preparations for the party's annual conference to be held in December in Seke, Mashonaland East province.Speaking during a provincial co-ordinating committee meeting held in Maronder...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Man clones bank cards, swipes $69 000

A CHITUNGWIZA man on Saturday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court charged with unauthorised use or possession of debit cards after he allegedly cloned bank debit cards for CABS account holders a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

OPINION

Zimbabwe youth will claim their country in 2023

LAST week I watched a video of Patrick Chinamasa chanting the ED-pfee slogan pitching the Mnangagwa presidential candidacy for the 2023 elections. For some, kicking off elections campaign for 2023 thi...

By Tapiwa Gomo | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

Mnangagwa minister's aide blocked from seizing farm

Terrence Machocho, a director in Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba's office has lost a case in which he was trying to evict a Chipinge farmer from his Stilfontein of Umzila Farm...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Botswana targets increased trade with Zimbabwe

THE Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) says it hopes to increase trade with Zimbabwe from the current US$30 million to US$105 million buoyed by the export credit line scheme currently under d...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

REF electrifies 9 800 rural institutions

THE Rural Electrification Fund (REF) is continuing with its efforts to provide alternative energy in rural areas having electrified more than 9 800 public institutions across the country since its inc...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Silo realises high profits from small grains

THE unbundling of the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) under the Government's public enterprise reform programme is already paying dividend, with Silo Food Industries realising high profits from small grai...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

MINING & RETAIL

Murowa begins diamond exploration in Chivi

MUROWA Diamonds has started exploration for gems in Sese communal lands in Chivi in Masvingo province where the firm has nearly 200 claims. Murowa mines diamonds in Zvishavane in the Midlands but has ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

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