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Parliament receives Zuma’s resignation letter
CAPE TOWN – Parliament has officially received the resignation letter of former president Jacob Zuma, National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete confirmed on Thursday.
adminPresident Mnangagwa mourns Tsvangirai
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has sent a condolence message to the Tsvangirai family following the death of veteran opposition leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai last night. The MDC-T leader died at a South African hospital after a long battle with cancer of the colon.
UPDATED: Tsvangirai dies
GOVERNMENT has instructed the Zimbabwean Embassy in Pretoria to assist the Tsvangirai family in any way appropriate, including meeting expenses attendant to the handling of the body of the now deceased, pending decisions to be made later.
IPEC closes down 224 pension funds
Africa Moyo Business Reporter
THE Insurance and Pension Commission (IPEC), an industry regulator, has closed down more than 224 occupational pension funds in the past 13 months as they had become unviable.
Scrap cancer therapy charges — First Lady
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has appealed to Government to scrap radiotherapy charges for cancer patients. Addressing hundreds of people in Masvingo, she said the current $400 charge per session was beyond the reach of many cancer patients.
UPDATED: Jacob Zuma resigns
President Jacob Zuma resigned as leader of South Africa last night during a televised address to the nation. “I resign as president of the Republic with immediate effect,” he said.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Time to beneficiate our diamonds
Zimbabwe’s potential to become one of the world’s top suppliers of diamonds has never been in doubt since the Marange diamond rush in 2005.
FROM NETONE WITH LOVE
FOOTBALL’S all-weather partner NetOne delivered a perfect Valentine’s Day present when they unveiled a $1 million sponsorship package for the country’s Big Three Clubs — Dynamos, Highlanders and CAPS United — in Harare last night.
‘Kariba South cost not inflated’
STATE power utility Zesa Holdings has reiterated the factors behind the $178 million cost disparity between extensions to Kariba South and Kariba North power stations, saying this was due to auxiliary works and other inescapable development expenses.
President to commission 108 NRZ wagons
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will next Wednesday commission 108 wagons, seven locomotives and eight passenger coaches sourced from South Africa last week for the revival of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), a key parastatal in the drive to turn around the economy.