Chinese bank grants Zim $218m
HARARE - China Exim Bank has granted Zimbabwe a $218 million loan to finance installation of a national mobile broadband network ecosystem, businessdaily has learnt. Chinese firm Huawei Technologies...
View ArticleDairibord in plant closure
HARARE - Listed Dairibord Holdings Limited (Dairibord) plans to shut down its Gweru plant as part of strategies to contain costs and rationalise operations. This comes as the milk processor last year...
View ArticleZLHR blasts police brutality
BULAWAYO - Rights lawyers have blasted police’s heavy-handedness following the alleged torture of two security guards last weekend for moving without national identity cards in Bulawayo. Fungai Moyo...
View ArticleRadio Dialogue manager fined
BULAWAYO - Radio Dialogue production manager Zenzele Ndebele was yesterday fined $100 by a Bulawayo magistrate, putting to rest a year-long court battle. Ndebele appeared before Bulawayo magistrate...
View ArticleQuartet charged for stealing from passengers
HARARE - A group of commuter minibus drivers and conductors who stole from passengers they had carried have appeared in court. Norman Kondwane, 32, Shephered Katiyo,22, Joseph Ganyani,18, Russel...
View ArticleGay stabber acquitted
BULAWAYO - A 22-year-old man who allegedly stabbed a gay for proposing love to him has been acquitted by a Bulawayo court. Bongani Phiri was appearing before regional magistrate Sikhumbuzo Nyathi...
View ArticleMDC activists murder trial resumes
HARARE - The trial of seven MDC activists accused of murdering police inspector Petros Mutedza in Harare’s Glen View suburb in May 2011 has resumed at the High Court. Tungamirai Madzokere, Last...
View ArticleSamukange fights Zanu PF MPs
HARARE - Independent legislator Jonathan Samukange is locked in a messy fight with Zanu PF Members of Parliament (MPs) in Mashonaland East. There is bad blood between Samukange (Mudzi South MP)”,...
View ArticleMutsekwa sued $170 000 for assault
HARARE - Giles Mutsekwa, a former Housing minister, has been sued for $170 000 for his involvement in the assault of an MDC councillor in the run-up to the July 31 vote. In a matter that has been...
View ArticleZanu PF in crucial Politburo meeting
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF holds a crucial Politburo meeting today which will tackle the Midlands leadership wrangle and former central bank Gideon Gono’s senatorial appointment....
View ArticleLegislators fume over Grace's visa snub
HARARE - Zanu PF MPs yesterday objected to the European Union (EU)’s decision to deny First Lady Grace Mugabe a visa to attend the EU – Africa summit in Belgium next week. The legislators registered...
View Article'Mangoma embezzled MDC funds'
HARARE - Elton Mangoma, the suspended MDC deputy treasurer general, has been accused of using party funds to bribe party structures in his presidential bid. The allegation is contained in a charge...
View ArticleSupreme Court in landmark rape ruling
HARARE - The Supreme Court yesterday awarded damages for pain and suffering to a Chegutu woman who was raped during a robbery attack, but dismissed her claim for State maintenance of her minor child....
View ArticleBiti back home
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday buried the hatchet with his party secretary-general Tendai Biti, quashing speculation that the 15-year-old movement was headed for another split....
View ArticleLand: Time to put house in order
HARARE - Fourteen years after the roll-out of an oft-violent land reclamation and redistribution programme, chaos still rears its monstrous head as a hallmark of the acquired farms with no respite in...
View ArticleOf graft and forgotten scandals
MARONDERA - Everyone knows that once you have tasted chocolate, you will never again be satisfied with a boiled sweet. A taste of the good life among our leaders and public servants has reached...
View ArticleArticle on Bryan Adams show outrageous
EDITOR — As part of the team promoting the recent Bryan Adams show, I have decided to write to you in regards the outrageous article published in your newspaper early this year by Maxwell Sibanda. The...
View ArticleABCH seeks $360m
HARARE - ABC Holdings (ABCH) seeks $360 million to capacitate it to be lender-of-last-resort to its banking subsidiaries. This comes as last year the group secured $135 million in lines of credit out...
View ArticleStick to RBZ mandate, Mangudya told
HARARE - Newly-appointed Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya must stick to central bank’s advisory role to government and regulation of the financial sector, economists say. They...
View ArticleYoung musician raps for Christ
HARARE - Young rapper Owen ‘Whistle ’Chikonyora, 19, has refused to be discouraged by sceptics who regard hip-hop music and Christianity as polar opposites. The Harare-based musician believes that...
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