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Consult stakeholders on demolitions issue
EDITOR - Chitungwiza Residents Trust (Chitrest) reiterates its position on the proposed demolitions of houses by government. While we welcome the J.B. Matiza-chaired investigation team for Chitungwiza...
View ArticleIndigenisation policy re-think important
HARARE - A fresh thrust on indigenisation by government needs an equally focussed push that ensures the policy accruals trickle down to the majority of the people. The indigenisation policy enacted...
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Is Zim heading to pre-2009?
HARARE - A front page newspaper photograph with the headline: “Hundreds queue outside banks for hours to make withdrawals,” sent chills down our spines. Whether we liked it or not it was impossible to...
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Mandela in fight from 'deathbed'
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's ailing first black President Nelson Mandela is putting up a courageous fight from his "deathbed", his daughter Makaziwe Mandela says. She told national broadcaster SABC...
View ArticleEssar engineers, management jet in
HARARE - Dormant iron producer NewZim Steel — formerly Ziscosteel — could soon reopen as engineers from India-based major shareholder Essar Africa Holdings (Essar) came into country last week. Mike...
View ArticleZim indigenisation 'a pain': Tongaat CEO
HARARE - South Africa-based Tongaat Hulett (Tongaat)’s chief executive Peter Staude says he has had sleepless nights over Zimbabwe’s indigenisation programme. His sugar-producing company, which holds...
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Zesa, Afreximbank in $100m deal
HARARE - Zesa Holdings (Zesa) has tentatively agreed to a $100 million financing deal with the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) for its prepaid meter-expansion project, businessdaily can...
View ArticleStop using divisions as an excuse
EDITOR — The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is worried that the Zimbabwean Government is using the so-called squabbles in the Apex Council — a body that represents civil servants in salary...
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Exercise caution
EDITOR — I would like to express my alarm at how our police has turned into a thuggish, brutal and violent force. Innocent lives continue to be lost on our streets because police officers cannot...
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Women should stand up for their rights
EDITOR — Gender based violence(GBV) is a mole which is slowly eating away society. Everyday women are being subjected to physical, emotional, physiological and verbal abuse with the children becoming...
View ArticleTackle the piracy scourge
HARARE - The election of a new seven-member board to take charge of the affairs of the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) presents yet another opportunity for Zimbabwean musicians to...
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Gono: Things that could not be said
HARARE - A successful life or career is measured by the amount of enemies or the controversies that one is associated with. In fact it remains a paradox that the few successful among us are men and...
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'Zanu PF poll flaws microcosm of July 31 theft'
HARARE - The electoral irregularities witnessed in the just-ended Zanu PF provincial elections are a replica of what the nation experienced during the July 31 harmonised elections, analysts said...
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Mliswa revels in 'sweet victory'
HARARE - Temba Mliswa, the newly-elected Zanu PF chairperson for Mashonaland West, says his election was preordained by God in spite of what he called “persecution” by fellow comrades opposed to his...
View ArticleFao bails out cattle farmers
BEITBRIDGE - The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (Fao) and UKAid have began a programme to save more than half-a-million units of livestock in Matabeleland South province, reeling...
View ArticleGovt helps youths obtain drivers' licenses
BULAWAYO - Government has set up a project which seeks to provide a cheaper way for women and youths in Bulawayo to obtain drivers’ licences. Women will pay an affordable amount of $5 instead of $20...
View Article'Zanu PF on track to meet $3m target'
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is on track to raise $3 million towards holding its 14th Annual National People’s Conference, with Manicaland Province scheduled to hold a massive...
View ArticleAccountant gets 8 years for car theft
HARARE - An accountant who robbed a car at knifepoint, before he was nabbed while ferrying passengers in Chitungwiza, has been jailed for eight years by Harare regional magistrate Aidonia Masawi. The...
View ArticleGumbura women face porn charges
HARARE - Eight women linked to Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura have appeared before a Harare magistrate accused of contravening the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act,...
View Article'My brother impregnated me'
HARARE - A Harare woman dragged her cousin brother before a Harare Civil Court claiming maintenance for their child. Martha Pasipamire told Harare magistrate Milton Serima that her cousin Livingstone...
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