Promises to keep, less to spend

  Stanely Mushava: Features Correspondent Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced in his mid-term fiscal policy review last week plans to cut 25 000 civil service jobs in order…

Rationale for farmer organisations

Sanderson Abel Agriculture is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy in so far as the bulk of the population remains largely rural based. Zimbabwe’s agricultural potential has thus always hinged on…

Zivhu donates pay to heart patient

George Maponga in Masvingo Chivi Rural District Council chairman Dr Killer Zivhu has resolved to forego his monthly $230 allowance from the council and channel it towards the upkeep of…

First Lady initiates training programme

Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter ZANU-PF Secretary for Women’s Affairs Amai Grace Mugabe has initiated a nationwide training programme to equip the wing’s provincial executive members with leadership skills.

Pogba under fire

LONDON. — Jamie Carragher has blasted Paul Pogba’s performance in the Manchester derby, comparing the midfielder to a “kid in the schoolyard”. World-record signing Pogba came under heavy fire from…

VP appointments haunt MDC-T

Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to unilaterally appoint Advocate Nelson Chamisa and Engineer Elias Mudzuri as vice presidents continues to haunt the party, with the chairperson…

$4m boost for STEM

Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter The Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (ZimDef) has disbursed over $4,4 million towards payment of school fees for students who enrolled for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics…

Chinhoyi taps running, again

Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau Chinhoyi residents, who have endured years of limited or no water at all, are set to have uninterrupted supplies following moves by the municipality to double treatment…

Utopia mulls 15MW solar plant

Walter Muchinguri Assistant Business Editor Zimbabwean Independent Power Producer (IPP) Utopia Power Company Limited is set to construct a 15 megawatt solar plant in Bromley 48km east of Harare at a…

Chrome producers fail to meet demand

Conrad Mwanawashe Business Reporter Apple Bridge, a Special Purpose Vehicle created by Government last year to facilitate chrome ore trade is sitting on firm orders of between 12 000 and 15…