Zanu PF stole Xmas - Tsvangirai
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday accused President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF of “stealing” Christmas from the people. Delivering his end of year address at the party’s Harvest...
View ArticleZim praise pulls bumper New Year's crowd
HARARE - Trailblazing interdenominational gospel choir, Zim Praise, pulled a bumper crowd at their maiden 2014 concert at Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on New Year’s Day. The HICC was...
View ArticleClovgate in regional expansion
HARARE - Elevator maintenance company Clovgate is setting up office in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA), as part of a regional expansion plan. Its founder and managing director, Colin Jeche, said the...
View ArticleEquities open year in the red
HARARE - Zimbabwe's equities market opened 2014 in the red with only one counter trading in the positive as analysts claimed there were little prospects of fresh listings in the new year. In...
View ArticleGovt to tax mobile money transfers
HARARE - Zimbabwe's cash-strapped government has imposed a tax on mobile money transfers as part of efforts to raise funds and widen its revenue base. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, in his 2014...
View ArticleZesa responds to incompetence charges
EDITOR ? Zesa Holdings acknowledges a letter “Zesa Should Be Competent” by Zesa Client in your January 2, 2014 edition and our response is as follows: The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and...
View ArticleLet God be elevated, not men
EDITOR - I refer to your article on Prophet Angel. Art Katz in his book, The Holocaust: Where was God? said that the nub of all evil is the elevation of man. And he is one hundred percent correct. It...
View ArticleThumbs up to Nhema
HARARE - A controversial proposal by the Zimbabwe government to kick out foreign shop-owners, mainly Chinese and Nigerian nationals, in order to create opportunities to locals had sent shudders...
View ArticleBulawayo youths turn to loitering
BULAWAYO - A number of youths in Bulawayo have turned to loitering in town rather than sitting at home claiming they have nothing productive to do. One of the youths interviewed by the Daily News but...
View ArticleNkomo's letter from exile: Part 5
Dr Joshua M Nkomo 2 Stevenage Road East Ham E6 2WL London E 6 2WL United Kingdom June 7, 1983 DEAR Robert 97. Comrade Prime Minister, you know that about two weeks before election day in March 1980,...
View ArticleNkomo smiles down on Bulawayo
BULAWAYO - Almost a fortnight since the statue of veteran nationalist and the late former vice president Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was unveiled, the stampede to catch a glimpse still continues unabated...
View ArticleAnglo faces protests at Shurugwi mine
HARARE - Anglo American’s (Anglo) Zimbabwe-based platinum producer Unki mine (Unki) faces protest from the Shurugwi community over recruitment of locals among other issues. According to Anglo, Unki...
View ArticleFugitive murder suspect nabbed after 14 years
BULAWAYO - A suspected murderer who fatally stabbed a man he had a misunderstanding with during a beer drink, has been arrested after 14 years on the run. Gift Mutenga, 39, of Njube suburb was picked...
View ArticleNCA eyes Harare, Zaka council seats
HARARE - Opposition National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) party has fielded candidates to contest the Harare and Zaka council by-elections scheduled for January 25. NCA candidate Garikayi Takura will...
View ArticleMDC seeks parastatals inquiry
HARARE - Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has called for a Parliamentary probe into all parastatals following shocking disclosures of hefty executive allowances at ZBC. Zimbabwe has 78 State-controlled public...
View ArticleGovt clueless on economic crisis: Makoni
HARARE - Opposition leader Simba Makoni has scoffed at claims by Patrick Chinamasa, the new Finance minister, that his spending plan ushers in the birth of a new economy, and the death of the old...
View ArticleTB Joshua strikes again
HARARE - Renowned Nigerian Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua, has predicted the fall of corrupt African leaders in 2014. In a televised message delivered on New Year’s Eve...
View ArticleSouth Sudan ceasefire talks open
KHARTOUM - Talks to end the South Sudan conflict have opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's foreign ministry says. Negotiators for the government and rebel sides have been meeting mediators but have not...
View ArticleZim junior tennis team confident
HARARE - Zimbabwe junior tennis players left the country yesterday ahead of the Africa Junior Championships qualifiers set for this weekend in Botswana. Zimbabwe will be represented by eleven players,...
View ArticleManyuchi WBC fight postponed
HARARE - Zimbabwe welterweight champion Charles Manyuchi’s WBC fight against Ghanaian Patrick Allotey has been postponed to March 15 after his Zambian counterpart Catherine Phiri’s opponent pulled out...
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