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HARARE - Nobody said it would be easy. Nobody gave Zimbabwe any real chance of winning against South Africa in the ODIs. Perhaps, if we had rolled back the years to the late nineties, or early 2000s,...
View ArticleCity revival on course - Dinyero
HARARE - After a turbulent start to the season, sanity seems to have prevailed at Harare City, who hope to continue their revival against How Mine this afternoon. The Sunshine Boys, last season’s...
View ArticleMidi skirt, best fashion statement ever
LONDON - Memory Mbewe, whose blog Fashion diary of a chic wife has become popular among Zimbabwean women, recently used this column to explain why women must not “downgrade’’ fashion-wise once they...
View ArticleMunicipal worker fined for mbanje
MUTARE - A Mutare municipal employee was yesterday fined $20 for smoking marijuana. Tinashe Mukandi of Dangamvura was convicted by Mutare magistrate Annia Ndiraya on his own plea of guilty. The State...
View ArticleChivero boat crew acquitted on appeal
HARARE - Two of the three men who were jailed following the Chivero boat disaster that killed 11 children on Christmas day in 2011 have been acquitted by the High Court. Fadil Ramon Weale and ?Joseph...
View ArticleTown clerk defends Mugabe advert
GWERU - Town clerk Daniel Matawu has defended the decision to place an advert in a local daily congratulating President Robert Mugabe for assuming the chairmanship of Sadc. The 90-year-old Zanu PF...
View ArticlePeople voted Zanu PF - Mafume
HARARE - Tendai Biti’s renewal team has upheld Robert Mugabe’s presidential election victory again, but the veteran leader’s defeated rival Morgan Tsvangirai insists the poll was rigged, igniting...
View ArticleZim mulls domestic processing industry
HARARE - Government should put an end to exports of raw materials as a first step in establishing domestic processing industries that will dramatically boost revenue from sales of finished products,...
View ArticleTsvangirai raises alarm
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday accused President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF apparatus of recruiting Israeli officials to rig the 2018 election. He spoke as analysts warned that...
View ArticleGovt moves to improve ease-of-doing-business
GWERU - Fred Moyo, the deputy minister of Mines, has said his ministry is keen to improve Zimbabwe’s ease-of-doing-business. Moyo said he witnessed many investors walk out on the country due to...
View ArticleEx-policeman faces armed robbery rap
HARARE - A 46-year-old ex-police officer allegedly stormed Total Service Station in Harare’s Central Business District and robbed cash at gun-point. Dzingira Cheche appeared before Harare regional...
View ArticleCID boss seeks discharge in $300 bribe charge
BULAWAYO - Criminal Investigations Department (CID) squad boss, George Machinga, is seeking to be discharged from charges of soliciting for a $300 bribe. Machinga’s defence counsel yesterday asked for...
View ArticleAvert Stanbic strike
HARARE - We implore Stanbic Bank and the Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (Zibawu) to immediately open negotiations to prevent a national strike initially announced yesterday. Government must...
View ArticleZanu PF seriously fractured
LONDON - President Robert Mugabe gave as one of the reasons for his continued stay in power the desire to leave his party united. It is the assumption then that he had long known that his party was...
View ArticleRioZim back in the red
HARARE - Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed mining concern RioZim Limited (RioZim) has recorded a net loss of $7,5 million in the half year to June 2014 due to high finance costs and unbudgeted for...
View ArticleArtistes collaborate on theatrical production
HARARE - Kuenda Productions will today launch The Twenty Fifteen Project, a collaborative theatrical production featuring artistes from Zimbabwe, Germany, Kenya, Uganda, France and Switzerland. The...
View ArticleAmakhosi launches Dreams to Fame expo
BULAWAYO - Amakhosi Cultural Centre on Saturday launched an expo called Dreams To Fame X-cilarated! The expo takes place every fortnight as part of the evening edition of Dreams To Fame 2014 season...
View ArticleHarare Agric show warms up to music
HARARE - Afro-Jazz musicians Jah Prayzah, Alexio Kawara and urban grooves ace Roki will be showcasing their musical talents today at the on-going Harare Agricultural Show. Of late, the Shaina singer...
View ArticleControversy over Bev's second album
HARARE - Newly-appointed Msasa Bricks Ambassador Beverly Sibanda is getting into the studio this week to record her second music album amid concerns she was negating her contractual agreement with her...
View ArticleZimbabwe economy: Investments plunging, says bank governor
HARARE - Foreign investment in Zimbabwe more than halved in the first six months of the year, the country's central bank chief John Mangudya has said. "The country received a paltry $67m [£40m]...
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