Some of the clearing agents told VOA Studio 7 the strike will have devastating effects on their businesses if it does not end soon.
Some of the legislators, who convened their sessions today in both chambers following a three-week adjournment, said they spoke with one voice in an attempt to tame some of the rogue ministers.
Chief Mtshana Khumalo of Bubi communal lands said it is disheartening that some chiefs in Zimbabwe are looting funds meant to benefit communities.
Some treasury officials told VOA Studio 7 the Ministry of Finance is being blocked by the Zanu PF arm of the government from writing a credit guarantee letter to the Botswana government fearing that Gaborone is trying to tie the loan to democratic reforms.
The merchants will complement efforts being made by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) in buying and importing maize and wheat for domestic consumption.
In its annual review of the Zimbabwean ecoomy, the IMF said Zimbabwe’s debt which stands at $10.7 billion remains a major impediment for the country’s economic turn-around.
Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi said the 37 people who recently occupied the conservancy have seriously dented the image of the country, still recovering from a decade of economic decline.
Walter Mzembi told VOA Studio 7 Tuesday that each country will be required to raise $3 million and provide the necessary infrastructure in Victoria Falls, Livingstone and surrounding areas.
According to Zimbabwe Steel workers union secretary general Takura Chikwiri, the situation is so bad that the workers are being paid mealie-meal and potatoes by commercial farmers.
Ncube told VOA Studio 7 government is partly to blame for the sloppy handling of the $40 million Distressed and Marginalized Areas Fund which was set up by the state in conjunction with Old Mutual Insurance more than a year ago.
ZTA chief executive Karikoga Kaseke told VOA the visits indicate that United States tourists are dominating the tourism market in the country following the formation of a coalition government in 2009.
According to parliamentary agriculture committee member, Patrick Dube, the diversion of drought relief aid has left thousands of people without food in most parts of Matabeleleand South.
Ndlela, a former cross-border trader who used to visit neighboring nations to buy goods for resale in Zimbabwe, stopped conducting her business after she was involved in a nasty car accident.
"It is sad to spend time debating with a man whose own party at its very highest level goes and kneels on the side of a mountain fully believing, clapping their hands … old man taking off their shoes showing us their socks with holes … believing that purified diesel can ooze from the side of a had granite rock"
The Zapu leader described as "nonsensical", a third draft constitution which has been compiled by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party that is now opposing the negotiated constitutional parliamentary committee document.
The sacked workers are expected Wednesday to approach the Ministry of Labor in Mutare to file a case of unfair dismissal
Employees were each summoned Thursday and Friday to a hearing at the company offices in Marange
MDC leader Welshman Ncube told a new conference Wednesday that his party will not brook any efforts to re-negotiate the draft document
Money being offered by the CMED is so lucrative that even large numbers of civil servants are temporarily abandoning their stations
The company wants to fire 500 employees after dismissing seven members of the workers’ committee
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