WEEKLY NEWS ROUND-UP

Monday

A fleet of haulage trucks belonging to Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena, through his company Mayor Logistics, can now be seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and held pending the outcome of his fraud trial and four top Cotton Company of Zimbabwe managers or an associated civil action.

In addition to the 22 trucks listed in the court order permitting the seizure, the same order allows ZACC to hold two luxury cars, a Lamborghini and a BMW X6, temporarily held by Beitbridge Border Post authorities on Friday while they were on their way to South Africa.

The uptake of Covid-19 vaccines, particularly the third dose, has risen rapidly, with 17 516 people taking their jabs since Wednesday last week after the decision by Cabinet to relax the mask requirement outdoors for those vaccinated thrice.

On Tuesday last week, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said with the decrease in new Covid-19 infections, Cabinet resolved that those with three doses of the World Health Organisation-recommended vaccines be exempted from the mandatory wearing of face masks in outdoor public places.

Wednesday

All ministries, Government departments and agencies have been given up to September

2 to submit due diligence reports on all contracts that were submitted as of July 31, but whose payments were suspended after it had been noted that the pricing models were based on parallel market rates.

This comes as Government is taking measures to tame inflation and stabilise the exchange rate with the aim of achieving price stability and market discipline, which will engender market confidence.

Thursday

Ahead of the War Veterans League elective conference next month, President Mnangagwa has called for democratic contestation and acceptance of results, saying divisive tendencies have no place in the ruling party. President Mnangagwa, who is ZANU PF First Secretary, said party members must always be guided by tenets of love, peace and unity even when contesting for positions.

Speaking at the 365th ZANU PF Politburo session at the party headquarters in Harare yesterday, President Mnangagwa said those who clandestinely interfere with the business of the War Veterans League must stand warned.

Friday

Transport operators and businesspeople have thanked the Government for the rehabilitation of major roads across the country under the Emergency Roads Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) as the Second Republic continues to transform the road network. Works on many roads are progressing.