Civil servants job cuts
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent Government says the civil service is top heavy and therefore needs to shed off excess employees as part of the its restructuring exercise, the Transitional...
View ArticleZesa clampdown: 15 bosses sent on mandatory leave
Takunda Maodza, Harare Bureau ZESA Holdings has sent 15 managers across its subsidiaries on mandatory leave to pave way for a forensic audit into the affairs of the parastatal, it has emerged. The...
View ArticleBulawayo police raid osiphatheleni
Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle Reporter POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday raided and arrested illegal money changers in the central business district in an operation aimed at ridding the city of illicit...
View ArticleManufacturers expose shops for price madness
Nqobile Tshili/Thandeka Moyo/Kudzai Chikiwa, Chronicle Reporters Manufacturers yesterday exposed retailers for duping customers by inflating prices despite procuring products from them at unchanged...
View Article‘NO NEED TO PANIC’…President assures nation
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has guaranteed the nation of the availability of all essential commodities, including fuel, saying there is no need for panic buying as...
View ArticleTerm limit for permanent secretaries
Zvamaida Murwira, Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT has put permanent secretaries on performance-based five-year contracts which can only be renewed once subject to delivery by the senior civil servants, Civil...
View ArticlePrice madness: Shops, pharmacies close doors
Andile Tshuma/Thandeka Moyo/Suku Matutu/Richard Muponde, Chronicle Reporters THE price hike madness prevailing in the country has seen some shops and pharmacies closing doors to customers. A snap...
View ArticleEconomy is self-dollarising: Prof Ncube
Business Editor THE Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said developments in the currency market in Zimbabwe are an indicator that the economy is “self...
View ArticleGovernment warns on price hikes…Stern measures against those engaged in...
Tendai Mugabe, Harare Bureau THE Government has directed that prices of basic commodities increased without justification be reduced immediately, as it moves to bring sanity on the market. Retailers...
View ArticleMotorist shoots man dead in Harare CBD
Prince Mukuna Herald Reporter A Harare man suspected to be a tout was shot dead this morning following an alleged altercation with a motorist over “parking fees” at the intersection of First Street and...
View ArticlePresident on constitutionalism
Zvamaida Murwira, Harare Bureau Government is committed to entrenching constitutionalism, improve legislative environment through repealing archaic laws and replacing them with those that are...
View Article‘Multi-currency regime here to stay’
Farirai Machivenyika , Harare Bureau President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the multi-currency regime adopted in 2009 still remains in place into the foreseeable future, while Government is...
View ArticleUPDATED: Bank balances to to be at 1:1
Prosper Ndlovu, Business Editor GOVERNMENT has secured a loan facility from the Afreximbank to guarantee the 1:1 convertibility value of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) balances into the United...
View ArticleChoke relief. . . IMF, World Bank back Zim’s debt clearance strategy
Enacy Mapakame, Harare Bureau The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank backed Zimbabwe’s debt clearance strategy and the country’s two-year economic stabilisation plan in Indonesia yesterday,...
View ArticleJUST IN: GMAZ receives 30 000 tonnes of wheat
Harare Bureau The Grain Millers Association of (GMAZ) has started receiving the 30 000 tonnes of wheat from Beira port in Mozambique following the recent release of foreign currency by the Reserve Bank...
View ArticleJUST IN: Whistleblower sues ZIMRA for $1,8m
Harare Bureau A WHISTLEBLOWER who assisted the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) recover $18 million tax from a local mobile network service provider through a tip off, has taken the taxman to court...
View ArticleArmed gang robs, rapes woman
Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporter A 44-YEAR-OLD woman from Bulawayo is lucky to be alive after she was gang raped at gunpoint by armed robbers at her Magwegwe West suburban home. The assailants also...
View ArticleBiti lies about Harare fatal shooting
Nduduzo Tshuma , Political Editor MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson Mr Tendai Biti has been caught lying after alleging that the State was behind the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old man during a...
View ArticleEnough fuel stocks: Govt
Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle Reporter THE country has enough fuel stocks to last months and provisions are in place to keep imports pouring in, the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Dr Joram...
View ArticleBlack market rates tumble
Andile Tshuma/Leonard Ncube, Chronicle Reporters PARALLEL market rates plummeted in Bulawayo yesterday after Government guaranteed the 1:1 convertibility value of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)...
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