Govt names 300MW solar tender winners
HARARE - Zimbabwe has awarded the 300 megawatt (MW) solar tender to three companies, including China Jiangxi International Cooperation (CJIC), Intratrek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Intratrek) and ZTE...
View Article$5m Swedish boost for women
HARARE - The Swedish Government has contributed $5,3 million towards a joint programme that seeks to accelerate Zimbabwe’s gender equality and women’s empowerment. Sweden’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe,...
View ArticleMPs call for changes in Beam management
HARARE - Legislators have demanded that the ministry of primary and secondary education be given the responsibility of administrating the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam). The presentation was...
View Article'Physically-challenged teachers marginalised'
HARARE - Physically-challenged teachers have called on government to review the manner in which deserving employees are promoted which they say marginalises them as it does not ensure equity and...
View ArticlePistorius' murder trial begins
PRETORIA - With his past triumphs now tarnished because he shot to death his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius will today enter court to be confronted with the jarring possibility that he will be sent to...
View ArticleHusband accuses wife of witchcraft
HARARE - An emotionally charged man has accused his wife of witchcraft, narrating how her snakes chase him around their bedroom. Denford Mabvirakare on Friday told Harare Civil Court magistrate,...
View ArticleWildlife conflict centre launched
HARARE - Zimbabwe has launched a Human-Wildlife Conflict Management Centre (HWCMC) in a bid to guarantee a balance between benefits and preservation of endangered species in the country. Food and...
View ArticleHarare worst on waste management
HARARE - Harare City Council (HCC) is leading all other authorities as the country’s most incompetent municipal on waste management — despite its gruelling past experience with cholera and typhoid....
View ArticleChombo faces Parly censure
HARARE - Local government minister, Ignatius Chombo faces a contempt of Parliament charge, following his failure to appear before a parliamentary thematic committee on peace and security to give...
View ArticleZuma chooses Mugabe over Mandela
HARARE - President Jacob Zuma is too busy to attend a memorial service for Nelson Mandela at Westminster Abbey in London tomorrow — but he has found time to be at a Mugabe family wedding and visit a...
View ArticleI'm here to stay, says Tsvangirai
HARARE - MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he is here to stay and is ready for an early congress in order to put an end to calls for leadership renewal. Shrugging off calls by some rebels within his...
View ArticleIRB is developing African Rugby
LONDON - It’s not as if the International Rugby Board has missed many opportunities to promote Rugby in the African continent but one of its key aims for 2014 is to make its development initiatives...
View ArticleBona rakes in millions
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s daughter Bona and her husband Simba Chikore, who tied the knot at the First Family’s plush and expensively-built Borrowdale Brook home on Saturday, received a...
View ArticleTrial date set for Mutodi
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has set a trial date for businessman-cum-musician Energy Mutodi who is facing a $2 million fraud charge. Magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe has set April 28 as the trial date....
View ArticleGoche files $500k lawsuit
HARARE - Nicholas Goche, the Labour minister, has filed a $500 000 defamation claim against NewsDay and its publisher Alpha Media Holdings (AMH). The minister, through his lawyers, Nyika Kanengoni and...
View ArticleFormer Tsvangirai allies want proper invites
HARARE - Opposition leaders have said they are prepared to engage with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai over a grand coalition provided they are approached in a proper manner. The former prime minister...
View ArticleState refuses to prosecute Kereke on rape charges
HARARE - The State has insisted that it will not prosecute Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke over rape allegations and urged the complainants to pursue a private prosecution. But the complainant...
View ArticleZimra boss takes aim at Parliament
HARARE - Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi is mulling a constitutional challenge to stop what he describes as abuse of parliamentary privilege in tackling national...
View ArticleAir Zim bosses granted bail
HARARE - High Court Judge Garainesu Mawadze has freed two Air Zimbabwe bosses on $3 000 bail each. Mawadze granted the airline's former chief executive Peter Chikumba and sacked company secretary...
View ArticleBona wedding: Motsepe's presence raises eyebrows
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe used his quota of invitations to his daughter, Bona’s wedding to invite a string of wealthy friends and benefactors, including South Africa’s richest black man —...
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