HARARE – Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (Ucaz) executive should call for an extraordinary Annual General Meeting (AGM) within six weeks or risk losing City of Harare’s contribution. According to the council’s treasurer, City of Harare contributed $35 000 during the 2012 financial year. Harare used to have four permanent delegates at the AGM but…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket were two week ago kicked out of their head offices of more than 20 years after defaulting on rents for several months. The ZC headquarters at Harare Sports Club had become a symbol of the game and many cricket lovers will have fond memories of their old HQ, which had become…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was heading to Asia on Thursday for a wide-ranging trip that will take her from the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean to China and Russia farther north. The State Department says the week-and-a-half-long trip is intended to emphasize a strong, long-term U.S. focus on the entire…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has jailed for 18 years a 42-year-old gardener who raped his employer’s teenage girl at knife-point. Harare regional magistrate Simon Rogers Kachambwa jailed Passmore Nyatowa after convicting him on charges of raping his boss’ 16-year-old daughter. Magistrate Kachambwa suspended six years on condition of good behaviour for the next five…
HARARE – One of the saddest stories of the 2012 Castle Premiership season is, to many neutrals, the decline of FC Platinum to a weekly punching bag, merely a season after losing the league championship on goal difference, only in their debut top flight season. Platinum’s entrance onto the top flight scene last season was…
HARARE – Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi could be the isolated crop among the Zanu PF weeds. This is because the former liberation party has degenerated into some kind of black jack, tsine chaidzo dzinotoda kuzunzwa. Mzembi was this week a towering figure in his party, standing apart from the madness in Zanu PF that has…
HARARE – Jugde president George Chiweshe yesterday threw President Robert Mugabe a lifeline when he granted a consent order giving the Zanu PF leader a month in which he is to call for a mini general election. Mugabe’s lawyer Advocate Ray Goba instructed by the Civil Division of the Attorney General’s Office said they had…
HARARE – The British Embassy has launched an Olympic Legacy Project valued at US$10 000 to improve sports infrastructure in institutions that cater for people living with disabilities. The launch coincides with the opening of the London 2012 Paralympic Games where an estimated 4 200 athletes from 163 nations, including Zimbabwe’s Paralympic sprinter Elliot Mujaji…
HARARE – Stanbic Bank has surpassed the new Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s (RBZ) phased recapitalisation requirements by recording capital of $35,7 million as at half-year to June 30. According to the RBZ, all banks are expected to have at least 25 percent of the new prescribed levels for its class by December this year, 50…
HARARE – Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe says it plans to invest an additional $4,5 million in plant expansion by year-end in order to double its production capacity to one million tonnes. “So far we have invested $1,6 million in expansion and we will be putting in another $4,5 million by year end,” said managing director Johnathan…
