Zanu PF MP loses home
HARARE - The house of Zanu PF MP for Harare East, Terrence Mukupe will today go under the hammer as a local bank seeks to recover its debt. Mukupe’s house was attached by the sheriff of the High Court...
View ArticleHarare town clerk case spills into courts
HARARE - Harare and Chitungwiza residents have dragged Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere to the High Court, challenging his decision to rescind the city’s town clerk’s appointment within 24...
View ArticleLacoste accuses Mugabe on diamonds cash
MUTARE - Factional fighting in Zanu PF yesterday reached new levels when Members of Parliament (MPs) aligned to Team Lacoste, a faction fighting to have Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeed...
View ArticleZanu PF torches 'fascist' schools storm
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s under-pressure government has torched another political storm after it proposed a new primary and secondary schools curriculum that compels children to salute the...
View Article'We will die on our feet'
HARARE - As Zanu PF’s seemingly-unstoppable succession wars continue to escalate, the party faction loyal to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is intensifying its fight-back programmes...
View ArticleGetBucks declares $500k interim dividend
HARARE - Microfinance institution GetBucks Zimbabwe (GetBucks) has declared an interim dividend of $500 000 for the six months to December 31, 2015, despite a difficult operating environment. In a...
View ArticleOld Mutual Zim posts $13m profit
HARARE - Old Mutual Zimbabwe (OMZ) posted a $13,3 million profit for the year to December 31, 2015 from $10,9 million on the back of a strong performance by the group’s life business. Old Mutual...
View ArticleStanbic profit up 15pc
HARARE - Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe (Stanbic), a unit of South African Standard Bank, recorded a 15 percent increase in profit to $23,9 million from $ 20,7 million for the year to December 31, 2015 buoyed...
View ArticleLet Fungisai fly
HARARE - I have followed singer Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave’s artistic career for years now, from the time she was being produced by fellow singer Elias Musakwa at Ngaavongwe Records. Through the...
View ArticleSulu dates Mutare
HARARE - Dendera crooner Suluman Chimbetu is returning to Mushandirapamwe Hotel in Highfield, Harare tonight before moving to Mutare where he will perform at Club Mandisa on Saturday. On Sunday,...
View ArticleZhakata, musicians blast sale of record companies
HARARE - Zora music star Leonard Zhakata is surprised that Gramma Records, Zimbabwe Music Corporation (ZMC) and Ngaavongwe Records are being sold when the record companies have not spoken to musicians...
View ArticleShock, outrage over Trump's comments
SEOUL - Confused, shocked, bewildered. Just a few of the words used in recent days to describe Japan and South Korea's reaction to some of Donald Trump's latest comments about the region. The...
View ArticleVillagers want diamond miners back
MUTARE - Despite the government’s insistence on “cancelling the licences” of diamond miners in Marange, villagers say their lives had improved significantly in the past few years as the companies were...
View Article'Mujuru can't wait for 2018'
BULAWAYO - Former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) says it cannot wait to take part in the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections, adding that it will do everything...
View ArticleGovt blocks Zesa tariff increase
MUTARE - Plans by Zesa Holdings (Zesa) to increase tariffs ostensibly to cover import costs hit a brick wall after government ordered that it should first recover more than $1 billion it is owed by...
View ArticleEddie Kebab faces $85k theft charge
HARARE - Harare businessman Eddie Zviitwa aka Eddie Kebab, who is facing an $85 000 theft charge, has been freed on $300 bail.This is not the first that the Kebab Centre owner has had a brush with the...
View ArticleJunior doctors turn to clinical directors
HARARE - Junior doctors have turned to clinical directors to help them past their contract impasse with the Health Services Board (HSB). The junior doctors were availed a revised contract by the HSB...
View ArticleWarriors can go places
JOHANNESBURG - With only a couple of games to go before the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying matches are completed, the Cosafa region is in distress. The region has only one...
View ArticleI'm too busy to marry: Wicknell
HARARE - He drives the latest vehicles and runs successful businesses, but philanthropist and flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo says he is too busy to settle down and start a family of his own....
View ArticleWhere is Itai Dzamara?
HARARE - Every working day that I return home from work be it early evening or late, whether I’m beat or not, there is only one thing that instantly revitalises me — the sight of my sweet little...
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