adminZupco goes cashless
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) yesterday introduced a convenient electronic ticketing system that will ease transactions and plug cash leakages from the public transport operator.
Govt gives looted companies $10m
Government has disbursed $10 million into the Emergency Business Relief Fund established to help companies that were looted and destroyed by MDC-Alliance thugs in January.
Abetting child marriages to attract 5-year jail term
THE draft Marriages Amendment Bill, 2017, approved by Cabinet last week, criminalises child marriages and proposes a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison for anyone who permits, aids or coerces a minor into marriage.
Musona holds breath as Kompany starts huge battle to heal broken club
ONE of the most influential voices in Belgian football, Kristof Terreur, says Vincent Kompany is walking into a mess at Anderlecht, with a lot of house-cleaning needed at the club, which he says are in crisis.
NPRC sets dates for peace committees
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has set dates for setting up peace committees countrywide as part of efforts to enhance the resolution of the country’s conflicted past and healing process.
‘Interbank rate for fuel long overdue’
The upward review of fuel prices by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) with immediate effect, has elicited mixed reactions, but economists agree that while the move was inflationary, the decision was long overdue.
Joint executorship for Tuku’s estate
THE Master of High Court has jointly appointed Daisy Mtukudzi and another family member — Vennah Muchakagara — as executors to the estate of the late music icon Dr Oliver Mtukudzi.
EDITORIAL COMMENT : Reforms to rein in forex cartels
Economic reform was moved up by several big steps at the beginning of this week: the determined two-pronged effort to make the interbank foreign currency mark work as planned, the cut in what amounts to subsidies on fuel, the direct application of a far smaller subsidy on public buses for the ordinary people, the strong steps to stop export earners and their bankers playing the currency markets, and the willingness to vary excise duties to make markets work.
Iran’s Rouhani rejects talks with US
DUBAI/LONDON. – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected talks with the United States yesterday, after President Donald Trump said Iran would call and ask for negotiations “if and when they are ever ready”.
THE ODD CLUBS BOSSO NOW DINE WITH
THEY were formed just nine years ago, initially as community project which used the power of football to help impoverished kids living in one of Blantyre’s poorest and toughest ghettos, by a colourful Malawian character known as the ultimate boss of that steaming slum.