'Zanu PF masters of rigging'
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF factions have sent a strong message to Zimbabweans and the rest of the world over their penchant for stifling any political challenge, after staging deeply...
View ArticleMushipe, Israel hold joint exhibition
BULAWAYO - Two award-winning Zimbabwean visual artistes Forbes Mushipe and Israel Israel have launched a collaborative exhibition at the National Gallery in Bulawayo. Gweru-based Mushipe and...
View ArticleTop Nigerian movie to open film festival
HARARE - Half of a Yellow Sun, a feature film by United Kingdom-based Nigerian Biyi Bandele, will be the main highlight of the 13th International Images Film Festival (IIFF) that will run in Harare...
View ArticleZim mining sector feels economic heat
HARARE - Shares in mining companies operating in Zimbabwe are falling sharply amid a deepening crisis triggered by President Robert Mugabe’s landslide victory in last year’s presidential election....
View ArticleBlanket Mine's gold output down
HARARE - AIM-listed Caledonia Mining Corporation (Caledonia) says gold production at its Zimbabwe-based Blanket Mine (Blanket) declined from 22 060 ounces in the first half of 2013 to 21 464 ounces in...
View ArticleLet's honour our heroes
EDITOR — We must not only pay lip service when it comes to honouring our national heroes but rather we must respectfully salute them for the role they played during the liberation struggle and in...
View ArticleOrdinary people are Zim's true heroes
HARARE - There was nothing at all coincidental about the sudden flurry of activity by local municipal workers undertaking road repairs five days before Heroes’ Day. Most roads approaching the town...
View ArticleThis is Zanu PF for you
HARARE - The chickens are truly coming home to roost for President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF — and this has absolutely nothing to do with so-called sanctions, the “evil” West, Morgan Tsvangirai or the...
View ArticleEbola outbreak: Kenya at high risk, warns WHO
NAIROBI - The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a "high-risk" country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with...
View ArticleDenmark to build 30 magistrates' courts
HARARE - The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has floated a tender for the construction of new magistrates’ courts in Beitbridge, Chivi, Mwenezi, Binga, Nkayi and Victoria Falls. The courthouses will...
View ArticleRape convict freed on bail
HARARE - High Court judge Loice Matanda-Moyo has freed on $200 bail, a Chinhoyi man who was serving 14 years in prison for rape. She ruled that he had high prospects of success on appeal. The...
View ArticleMohadi wants SA to keep 2 million Zim immigrants
HARARE - Government has made an impassioned plea to South African authorities to regularise the stay of over two million Zimbabweans illegally living in the neighbouring country by giving them special...
View Article4 cops jailed for extortion
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has jailed four cops for 30 months each after convicting them for extorting $70 from an Epworth man. Tendai Saungweme, 47, Canaan Chuzu, 51, Nyasha Chowa, 48 and Chimbo...
View ArticleMagaya invades Bulawayo
BULAWAYO - Popular Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya will today descend on Bulawayo for a two-day crusade slated for Amazulu Sports Club. The visit by Magaya will...
View ArticleZim poet comes second in global contest
HARARE - Popular performance poet Batsirai Chigama claimed second position in a competition organised by StAnza, Scotland’s leading international poetry festival. Chigama was beaten to the first...
View ArticleMicInity relishes Dandaro debut
HARARE - Mike “MicInity” Madamombe says tomorrow night’s concert at Dandaro Inn will be a perfect stage to justify his credentials as the country’s leading reggae artiste. MicInity, who walked away...
View ArticleZim import bill nears $10bn
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s import bill is set to reach $10 billion by year-end as imports continue to balloon against declining exports, economists have warned. This comes as figures from Zimbabwe Statistics...
View ArticleOM projects gloomy Zim outlook
HARARE - Insurance giant Old Mutual plc (OM) says its Zimbabwean prospects are subdued due to the country’s economic downturn. “Zimbabwean prospects are subdued, but elsewhere in Africa we see...
View ArticleEconomy must come first
HARARE - As the Zanu PF women’s congress roars into life today in the capital amidst a fierce and vicious struggle between warring factions with accusations and counter accusations of kidnapping, vote...
View ArticleZanu PF should throw in the towel
EDITOR — Zanu PF has a tendency of holding everyone to ransom and it is high time people of Zimbabwe wake up to this. After the controversial election win in 2013, judging from the current...
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