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Mthuli Ncube stops beer price hike.FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has shot down calls to increase excise duty on alcohol as well as levy a tax on environment polluters as part of measures to raise funds to cushion the security sector and war veterans from economic hardships.The parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence had tabled a report recommending the levying of one percent excise duty on alcohol, a development that would have seen the price of alcoholic beverages increase again.But Ncube said, instead, other ways of raising funds to ring-fence the security sector should be considered."The excise duty on alcohol and beverages is already very high. It is averaging 40 percent. Now we are being asked to add one percent and it will be too much. Any further increase could be regressive and that negatively impacts growth of production volumes in the sector," Ncube said.Former Vice-President, Phelekezela Mphoko and his son, Siqokoqela are suing their former lawyer, Prof

General Chiwenga to retain position at Conference.The 18th Zanu-PF National People's Conference to be opened by President Mnangagwa at Goromonzi High School tomorrow is not going to be elective, but will be a defining meeting to set the country on a robust path for accelerated economic growth.Briefing journalists after the 335th ordinary session of the Politburo in Harare yesterday, Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Cde Simon Khaya Moyo dismissed social media reports that the party would elect new office bearers. He said people peddling such falsehoods were not aware of the difference between a conference and a congress."The President noted that this will be a defining conference and must be used to further mobilise our people towards economic productivity and guide our course as we accelerate our quest to grow our economy and improve the quality of lives of our people," said Cde Khaya Moyo."There are some social media reports circulating that we ar

Mnangagwa closes door on multi-currency.PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government shall not force any return to the multi-currency regime which was abandoned June this year.The Zanu-PF leader was delivering his opening address during the ongoing Zanu-PF annual national people's conference in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East Friday afternoon.Mnangagwa said his administration has put in place measures to ensure adequate cash supplies to citizens who continue to endure acute shortages.His comments may however not endear him with the majority who have lost savings through which are pegged in local currency.The country's number one said his government will descend on those hoarding cash and creating artificial shortages of the resource.He also vowed his government will seize tracts of land in the hands of black owners who grabbed more than a farm each during the country's land reform process in the past 20 years.He said government was concerned with the prevailing high

REVEALED: Iran helping Zimbabwe to build a cyber army.In a desperate bid to thwart feared mass uprising in the country over a worsening food security situation, health crisis, and economic disfunction, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, has allegedly secretly courted the Islamic Republic of Iran, to help Harare build a cyber army, to contain political revolution threats posed by the internet and social media, which could topple the ruling Zanu PF from power, Spotlight Zimbabwe, can exclusively reveal.The country is facing it's worst drought in four decades, with over 7 million people in need of urgent food assistance, according to the World Food Programme (WFP), which is struggling to raise more than $200 million needed to ease the food insecurity disaster, coupled with price escalations and the collapsing health sector, is seen as creating conditions ripe for waves of opposition demonstrations and protests, which this time around government intelligence officia

Mnangagwa to remain Zanu-PF leader after the conference.While Social Media IS Abuzz with the excitement of the conference  everyone's still talking about it.And for good reason. In fact, several good reasons. The 18th National Conference of ZANU PF and the second to be presided over by Emerson Mnangagwa has departed from many conferences ever held by ZANU PF.This years conference is probably the finest conference of any kind ever attended".  It's a sentiment that's since been echoed by many others.To show the maturity of the president of Zimbabwe the conference did not stop the business of the government.Parliament has been sitting as usual until the MDC MPs requested an adjournment so that they could enjoy ZANU PF conference from Terraces.   The parliament continues sitting and making serious decisions of running the country.Even the sitting of the Politburo and the Central Committee did not disturb parliament sitting. ED personally instructed the ZANU PF MPs who