Who is who in Zim’s cutthroat fuel sector
SIX major oil-importing entities, including the Indigenous Petroleum Association of Zimbabwe (Ipaz), Zuva Petroleum, Puma Energy, Total Zimbabwe, Petrotrade (Pvt) Ltd and Engen Petroleum Zimbawe, are...
View ArticleMinister sucked into Zinara scandal
UNDER-FIRE Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo systematically obstructed investigations into the alleged looting of funds at the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) to protect...
View ArticleMnangagwa should appear before Commission of Inquiry- Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa today declared that he will only agree to testify before the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 killings if President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies, Constantino...
View ArticleAugust 1 demonstrators stupid: Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC party leader Nelson Chamisa has described his party supporters who took to the streets after the June 30 election demanding the release of presidential poll results as “stupid”. Nyasha...
View ArticleMnangagwa’s anti-graft fight unconvincing
FOR splurging £16 million (US$21 million) on pricey jewellery and vintage wines over a decade, a British woman became the first target of a law seeking to dissuade criminals from enjoying their...
View ArticleGloom over Zim coup anniversary
THE hope that sprang eternal in November last year — when a shock military coup led to the dramatic toppling of then president Robert Mugabe whose 37-year rule had decimated the economy — is now...
View ArticleNew power struggle rocks Zanu PF
THE stage is set for a bruising turf war between Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) and his ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga at the ruling party’s annual conference to be held in...
View ArticleChamisa, Mwonzora battle intensifies
MDC Alliance secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says he is weighing his options ahead of the opposition party’s elective congress next year and may challenge party leader Nelson Chamisa, if he...
View ArticleMnangagwa eager to adopt Chinese communist model
ZANU PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is eager to adopt the Chinese communist model of governance and its economic development thrust, in which government is subservient and reports to the...
View ArticleWar vets tension escalates
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWA) leadership is set to meet in Harare next weekend to deliberate on the possibility of holding an extraordinary congress next year to...
View ArticleDeveloping your personal brand
LATELY I have been thinking a lot about the idea of developing one’s personal brand. Robert Mandeya People management issueS Firstly, what is meant by your personal brand? Usually, when the wrong brand...
View ArticleKenyan judge brokers Zanu PF, MDC talks
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week ruled out talks and a power-sharing arrangement with the MDC-Alliance, saying Zanu PF had won a two-thirds majority in the July general elections, it has...
View ArticleZanu PF gobbles millions on chefs’ fat-cat salaries
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also the ruling Zanu PF leader, deployed 15 senior party officials, including former ministers dropped his cabinet in September, to the party headquarters...
View ArticleMnangagwa consolidates power
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa used last week’s Zanu PF annual conference week in Esigodini to further push his main internal rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga against the wall in a major move...
View Article… good, the bad, and the ugly
Tinashe Kairiza THE year 2018 is coming to a close; it was a year of political intrigue, economic turmoil and endless drama. A nation desperate to open a new chapter in the aftermath of the ruinous and...
View ArticleMilitary looms large in power matrix
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been extensively restructuring the army ever since assuming power through a millitary coup in 2017, confirming that the security apparatus remains deeply steeped in the...
View ArticleMnangagwa under pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration faces a mammoth task to steady the ship and deliver the goods as pressure mounts from all angles amid massive economic, social and political turbulence...
View ArticleCompanies to collapse in 30 days
MELODY CHIKONO/CHIPA GONDITIi MANY manufacturers could be forced to halt operations if government fails to arrest the crippling currency crisis within the next 10 days as most companies are left with...
View ArticleUS$400m deal in limbo
GOVERNMENT is reconsidering the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation project to be jointly undertaken by the South African rail, port and pipeline company, Transnet and...
View ArticleOur govt has squandered immense goodwill: Mutasa
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) this week called a three-day stayaway to protest the government’s decision to hike fuel prices amid a rapidly deteriorating economic environment and rising...
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