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Zhuwao 10% Tax -, ‘Unconstitutional Idiocy Of The highest Order’ Says MDC

Posted on October 6, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE opposition MDC party has rejected as “unconstitutional and idiocy of the highest order” a proposal by President Robert Mugabe’s nephew and empoerment minister to force a 10 percent empowerment tax on foreign companies. “This attempt to milk the few companies that remain operational in the country is daylight robbery which should not be allowed to see the light of day,” the party said in a statement Monday. “It is yet another example of the…

‘Suspects Provide Stationery At Most Inadequately Supplied Police Stations’-Chinotimba

Posted on October 6, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Most police stations do not have stationery and suspects are being asked by police to provide their own. Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba (Zanu-PF) claimed that in the rural areas police officers failed to clear livestock for sale due to lack of transport. He said this could encourage payment of bribes to get a police officer to clear livestock without verification. “People intending to clear their livestock for sale outside their designated areas are told…

New Editor-In-Chief For South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, Is Verashni Pillay (31)

Posted on October 6, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

JOHANNESBURG. — Verashni Pillay is the Mail & Guardian’s new editor-in-chief, the newspaper announced on its website yesterday. Phillip de Wet, who has been at the M&G since 2012, will be acting deputy editor. The announcement came after the paper lost its editor-in-chief Chris Roper, editor Angela Quintal and deputy editor Moshoeshoe Monare within in three months of each other. Following the announcement yesterday, Pillay said she had thought long and hard about taking the job,…

Financial Institutions Increase ZimSwitch Transaction Charges By Up To 300%

Posted on October 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

ZimSwitch uses will feel the pinch in transaction charges as banks have announced an astronomical rise of up to 300%. Financial institutions agreed on an upward review of the fees to maintain ATM infrastructure, in a move analysts say could boost non-interest income for the sector, while hurting bank customers. The past two weeks have seen banks increasing service fees for withdrawals made through the ZimSwitch platform to US$4 from US$1, while Visa cardholders’ withdrawal…

MDC T-Chamisa Warns Army, ‘You Will be held To Account’ When The Regime Changes

Posted on October 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

MDC-T MP for Kuwadzana East Nelson Chamisa has warned “rogue” members of the army to “watch what you say”. Chamisa said this to hundreds of party supporters at a rally in his constituency Sunday following reports that senior generals had threatened to “deal with politicians” who oppose President Robert Mugabe including former Vice-President Joice Mujuru. “We are watching you and there are people taking note of everything that is happening. If you threaten the people,…

Zanu PF Regime To Impose 10% Tax On Foreign Owned Companies To Fund Black Empowerment

Posted on October 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

GOVERNMENT plans to impose a 10 percent tax on foreign-owned firms to fund a black economic empowerment programme that is designed to bring the companies under local majority control, a minister was quoted as saying on Monday. Some of the companies that could be affected by the new tax include the world’s top two platinum producers Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings, which both have operations in Zimbabwe. Under the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment…

MDC-T, Job Wiwa Sikhala, Says ‘Joshua Nkomo Was Never A Sell Out’

Posted on October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

MDC-T senior member Job Wiwa Sikhala has added his voice in condemning the claims by vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa who said former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith confided in him that Joshua Nkomo did not win the elections at independence because he represented the interests of the whites while President Robert Mugabe represented majority blacks that is why he won. The remarks sparked wide condemnation of Mnangagwa. “He truly loved Zimbabwe. Had a vision which…

‘Zimbabwe’ 38 Elephants Killed In Six Months, Now Eleven Elephants Killed In Cyanide Attack

Posted on October 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Photo-Patrick Sibanda, A senior wildlife officer with the Parks and Wildlife Management Authority looks at the remains of the poisened elephants at Hwange National Parks on Sunday. Pic Aaron Ufumeli Eleven elephants have been found dead at Number Nine area and Deka Safari area in the past week in a case suspected to be cyanide poisoning. The first batch of elephant carcasses comprising four females and one bull were found ten metres apart of each…

‘Zanu PF National Assembly, Mabel Chinomona Now More Than 2 Years In Rainbow Towers Hotel’

Posted on October 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zanu PF is typically milking the nation as, soon after the vice president Phelekezela Mphoko, was reported to have so far spent a total of almost 300 days living in a hotel at government expense, totalling up to US$120,00 since December 2014. As if thats not enough, it is now reported that the National Assembly Mabel Chinomona has also , so far spent more than two years, living in Rainbow Towers hotel in Harare at government expense. This…

MDC-T Thamsanqa Mahlangu, MP For Nkulumane ,Passed Away Today

Posted on October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The MDC T has of late faced the unfortunate loss of senior cadres in the party due to death, and now its reported that Thamsanqa Mahlangu,the MDC-T national youth assembly chairman and at the same time the MP for Nkulumane in Bulawayo city passed away early this morning at a private hospital after a long illness due to cancer after about two months hospitalisation. He was recognised by the MDC T opposition as a gallant fighter for…

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