Korean envoy sees economic recovery
HARARE - New Korean ambassador to Zimbabwe Yong-kyu Kwon has backed Zimbabwe to come out of its current economic challenges which his country once experienced. The Korean envoy who toured the Daily...
View ArticleKhupe under threat
HARARE - The MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai has rolled out its much-awaited congress starting at ward levels — with the party vice presidency likely to be contested at the main event to be held in...
View ArticleJonathan Moyo defends Kudzayi appointment
HARARE - Jonathan Moyo, the minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services yesterday defended the appointment of Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi who is currently facing charges of...
View Article'Zanu PF youths looted fund'
HARARE - The $10 million Youth Fund aimed at enabling youths to start income-generating projects did not reach its intended beneficiaries as it was accessed mainly by Zanu PF youths. The fund, availed...
View ArticleZim debt balloons
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s principal debt has ballooned by nearly 40 percent from $6,1 billion last year to $9,9 billion, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. The lawyer-cum-politician yesterday said...
View Article'Baba Jukwa' freed on bail
HARARE - Incarcerated Sunday Mail editor who is accused of being Baba Jukwa , Edmund Kudzayi, was finally freed yesterday by the courts, on stringent bail conditions. He was ordered by High Court...
View ArticleBan car imports – Quest
HARARE - Quest Motors Manufacturing (Quest) says Zimbabwe must ban car imports. The group — with capacity to produce 105 cars per day and 100 buses monthly — said government should shift its policy...
View ArticleIDBZ targets $1bn capitalisation
HARARE - State-owned Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) targets to grow its asset base more than ten-fold from $87 million to $1 billion in the next four years. Willard Manungo, the...
View ArticleGovt fails to fund Dimaf
HARARE - Government has failed to provide the $20 million it pledged towards the Distressed and Marginalised Areas Fund (Dimaf), compelling hard-pressed industries to rely on private sector funding....
View ArticleFactionalism should not consume Zanu PF
HARARE - Martin Meredith’s The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence exposes how western interests have exploited factional faults in most African nationalist movements to...
View ArticleLet's prepare for Rio 2016
HARARE - The 2016 Rio Olympic Games seem far long away as there is still some two years to go before the competition roars into life. This is probably the notion in the minds of most administrators...
View Article'It's a miracle how we survived'
Continued from yesterday You once described yourself as “a development-oriented governor”. Yet under your watch, Zimbabwe’s economy imploded, looking back, what would you say was the real cause or...
View ArticleFemale cop fondles woman
HARARE - A female police officer, who could not resist the temptation of fondling another woman’s breasts, was yesterday arraigned before the courts facing indecent assault charges. After a beer...
View Article”Youths did not invade shrine — Police
HARARE - Police have denied reports that Zanu PF youths have turned the shrine of Johane Masowe weChishanu leader Madzibaba Ishmael Mufani on the outskirts of Harare’s Budiriro high-density suburb...
View ArticleGermany reach semis
LONDON - Joachim Löw's young Germany side beat France 1-0 thanks to first-half goal from Mats Hummels at the Maracana to reach the semi-finals of the 2014 Fifa World Cup yesterday. So many German...
View ArticleNeymar out of World Cup
LONDON - Luiz Felipe Scolari last night angrily claimed that Neymar had been “hunted” out of the World Cup after it was confirmed that Brazil’s star player has suffered a fractured vertebra and will...
View ArticleCycling Zim's entire border for anti-poaching
HARARE - Three local cyclists have teamed up with leading Zimbabwean motor company Dulys to stage a 3 600km ride along the entire border of Zimbabwe in an anti-poaching awareness initiative. Dubbed...
View ArticleVincent impressive at Nomads Champs
HARARE - Zimbabwe's sole representative at the Nomads SA Boys Under-17 Stroke Play Championship, Kieran Vincent, put up a courageous fight to finish third at Polokwane Golf Club on Thursday. Fresh...
View ArticleAfrican teams' World Cup conduct shameful
JOHANNESBURG - A few writers caught my attention this week following failure by African teams to advance past the second round of the ongoing 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil. One African columnist...
View ArticleMabaleka – A true gentleman of the game
BULAWAYO - Some of Tymon Mabaleka’s former teammates could not help but express their disappointment that at the time of his death, he was not involved in football. But after listening to the various...
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