adminDeMbare reject Gamecocks offer
A PROTRACTED battle is looming between Dynamos and Premiership football rivals Chicken Inn over midfielder Valentine Kadonzvo after the Glamour Boys rejected the Gamecocks’ offer to regularise the player’s move. The Harare giants — who claim that they were tricked into releasing the player last month — are demanding $8 000 from their Premiership rivals.
Editorial Comment: Dialogue must aim for nation-building
Political parties that participated in the July 2018 harmonised elections met on Friday last week and formed four thematic committees to give national dialogue the much-needed depth and direction.
Taxman rolls up sleeves
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is set to rake in billions of dollars, thanks to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) tool that puts the tax collector in the global-best category. Zimra has targeted to collect $6,037,293,100, but the figure is likely to be surpassed due to changes in the monetary regime announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last week which floated foreign currency rates.
Govt is cash positive: Mthuli
Government is currently operating on a positive cash basis as revenue enhancement and austerity measures announced in the 2019 National Budget continue to yield dividends, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has said.
Massive fraud rocks Amnesty International
An audit has unearthed serious fraud and financial mismanagement involving millions of dollars at Amnesty International (AI) Zimbabwe. AI, an international human rights organisation that has been part of a phalanx of anti-establishment non-governmental organisations (NGOs), joins a lengthening list of Western NGOs that have lost money to local activists that purport to fight for civil and political rights in the country.
A budget designed to steady the ship
South Africa is supposed to be a secular state, but one can perhaps forgive Tito Mboweni, the Minister of Finance, for quoting numerous biblical verses in his 2019 Budget Speech. After all, South Africa’s fiscal situation is enough to make many people hope for divine intervention.
Rule of law cannot be matter of opinion
From its formation, MDC has largely misread the impact of protest politics, hoping this in and of itself will one day bring regime change. There was hope that urban mass action would propel Morgan Tsvangirai to State House in 2002, and nothing close to that ever happened.
Chamisa makes bizarre power-sharing demand
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday threatened mass action and to “shutdown” Harare if President Mnangagwa does not agree to a power-sharing arrangement. Mr Chamisa is calling for a bizarre arrangement where he will be given two years to rule the country on a rotational basis.
ZRP recruitment policy reviewed
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Friday said its recruitment policy had been amended with immediate effect with potential recruits now required to be aged between 18 and 22. The potential police recruits should also hold a minimum of five Ordinary Level passes including Mathematics, English Language and Science attained in not more than two sittings.
NOIC to upgrade Feruka pipeline
The National Oil and Infrastructure Company (NOIC) intends to start work on upgrading the Feruka Oil Pipeline in the second half of this year to increase fuel transportation capacity into the country.