The Insider

The government has finally taken the first step in trying to rectify Bulawayo's decades-old water problem. It is now planning to link Mtshabezi and Mzingwane Dams and is inviting tenders…

Factions within the Movement for Democratic Change that are squabbling over whether to participate or boycott the forthcoming senate elections, threatening to split the party, should quickly patch up their…

Some junior doctors who were deployed to Mpilo Hospital in August and were supposed to be accommodated at the hospital have complained that they are now stranded after being kicked…

Bulawayo is witnessing a building boom with the city council approving plans worth $11.5 billion in September. Plans approved in the first nine months of this year shot up to…

The Bulawayo City Council has approved a $3.8 trillion "maintenance budget" for 2006 which will see charges increase by an average of 250 percent but still leave a deficit of…

Central bank governor Gideon Gono may have got his exchange rate policy right this time but this could be derailed by commercial banks that have now decided to play god…

Divisions that rocked the Movement for Democratic Change over participating or boycotting the senate elections were healthy for the party and could see it emerge even stronger than before as…

The future of Bulawayo tyre manufacturing giant, Dunlop Zimbabwe, is still uncertain as the company was only given US$300 000 to manufacture tyres for one specific client. Contrary to reports…

Divisions within the opposition Movement for Democratic Change that have been simmering for some time came to a head last week when the party failed to reach a consensus on…

The rift within the Movement for Democratic Change continued to widen this week with the three Matabeleland provinces vowing to contest the senate elections scheduled for November 26. Bulawayo province…