Businessman Chapfika fights property attachment
HARARE - Prominent businessman MacDonald Chapfika is battling to block the sale of his household property that was attached by a law firm over unpaid legal fees. Chapfika, who had his exclusive deal...
View ArticleHarare council to lose property
HARARE - Harare City Council (HCC) risks losing its property as Mbare residents, who successfully sued it after blocked drains caused flooding of their homes, have secured a writ of execution....
View ArticleZim banks go paperless
HARARE - Zimbabwean banks are phasing out paper-based Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) transactions, with Standard Chartered (Stanchart) being the latest in announcing the move. This comes as banks...
View ArticleDegree-hungry Zimbos shun colleges
MUTARE - Top educationists have slammed Zimbabweans for snubbing polytechnic colleges in preference for universities, only for them to be stuck with degrees but without employment. Mutare Polytechnic...
View ArticleOpposition petitions Zec over metal IDs
HARARE - Opposition parties have petitioned the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), challenging Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede’s pronouncement that metal identity cards (IDs) will not be used...
View ArticleCursed are those who insult Mugabe: Grace
HARARE - Zanu PF bigwigs and their allies who are in the habit of denigrating and insulting President Robert Mugabe will be cursed by God, First Lady Grace Mugabe has warned. Addressing supporters at...
View ArticleED was poisoned, Mugabe confirms
GWERU - A medical doctor who attended to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in South Africa about three weeks ago revealed to President Robert Mugabe recently that the 74-year-old politician was...
View ArticleSekeramayi, Parirenyatwa fight to clear their names
HARARE - Cabinet ministers Sydney Sekeramayi and David Parirenyatwa have written to Energy Mutodi signalling their intention to sue the controversial businessman for sensationally claiming that they...
View ArticleGovt must consider schools plight
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe — a former educationist himself — last week officially opened the Education Conference and Expo 2017 in Harare, a story which was carried in Friday’s edition of our...
View ArticlePolitics, economics: Bane of Zim's socio-economic prospects (Part 1)
HARARE - A recent report on Zimbabwe authored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) creates the impression that efforts of the economic team driving the country’s revival agenda are being...
View ArticleWhither opposition grand coalition?
HARARE - With Zimbabweans already in an election mode ahead of crunch polls next year, the coming together of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his former allies, who had broken ranks with him under...
View ArticleRich, famous drown in maintenance debt
HARARE - Responsibility is one thing that several people are afraid of in life, which has seen many men including popular figures being dragged before the courts for failing to pay maintenance towards...
View ArticleAvian Flu crisis: Poultry producers slam govt
HARARE - Poultry producers have slammed government over the Avian Influenza crisis, accusing it of not taking decisive action in curbing the deadly highly pathogenic virus which has decimated the...
View ArticleChombo, Mutare businessman case in new twist
HARARE - Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro’s lawyers have written to the High Court registrar demanding a ruling in an urgent chamber application filed by Home affairs minister Ignatius...
View ArticleMugabe birthday not yet holiday
HARARE - The declaration of President Robert Mugabe’s birthday as a holiday is yet to be formalised, with the latest Government Gazette not recognising it among 2018’s national holidays calendar. Last...
View ArticleGovt goes after borehole owners
HARARE - Government is going after borehole and water wells owners who are defaulting on payments of levies for ground water extraction. According to the Water Act, all ground water is owned by...
View ArticleKhupe, allies snub Tsvangirai rally
BULAWAYO - MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe and her allies boycotted party leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s rally yesterday, in yet another move fuelling speculation that the country’s largest opposition...
View ArticleMnangagwa beefs up security
HARARE - Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has tightened his security following suspicions that his rivals could be out to eliminate him physically in the wake of his alleged poisoning about three...
View ArticleIs the 'catch' slipping through ED's claws?
HARARE - “Mugabe unveils heir,” screamed one local newspaper on its front page the morning after President Robert Mugabe named the then Justice minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa as one of his two deputies...
View ArticleJSC assigns magistrates to preside over political violence cases
HARARE - The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has assigned three magistrates to deal with politically-motivated violence ahead of the Harare Municipality by-election. In a Government Gazette...
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