HARARE – Zimbabwe trade promotion body, ZimTrade, says the country is quickly de-industrialising and government must come up with policies to help revive local industries. Despite an ephemeral rebound in 2009, capacity utilisation in the manufacturing sector is on the decline as companies continue to be choked by liquidity challenges affecting the economy. An estimated…
JOHANNESBURG – North West Premier Thandi Modise has condemned the “anarchy” which culminated in a shoot-out between police and striking workers at Lonmin’s Marikana Mine. “Survival of the fittest, anarchy and lawlessness should not characterise wage negotiations in the mining sector,” she said in a statement yesterday. “This is the most tragic labour dispute with…
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF wants a clause in the draft constitution requiring that presidential candidates appoint running mates thrown out, even though the provision was brought by the liberation party. Zanu PF’s Politburo on Thursday resolved to do away with the running mates provision, a clause that deputy minister of Justice and Legal Affairs…
HARARE – She is an apostolic faith sect member whose best friends are stone and a chisel. Donning white robes just like any devout member of this traditional Christian church largely viewed as anti-feminine, Juliet Mukwasha- Juckers is one of a kind. She is popularly known as JBH and her tale is unlike any other….
HARARE – Harare magistrate Don Ndirowei has denied bail a bogus lawyer who swindled a home seeker of $9 000 in a botched residential stand deal. Maxwell Mano (37) appeared before the Harare Magistrate on fraud charges, after selling a residential stand to two different people. He deceived one of them that he was a…
THE three main political parties’ representatives in Manicaland Province this week, held a joint clean-up campaign organised by the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic). The campaign that started with a procession from Green Market to city centre, witnessed activists from Zanu PF and the two MDCs jointly cleaning Meikles Park while wearing their different…
HARARE – It had to take a series of man-of the-match performances turning out for a Johannesburg-based social team called Tigers for Peter “Rio” Moyo to return to organised football after a four-year self-imposed exile. Having left for South Africa in 2006 at the height of economic and political instability in Zimbabwe, Moyo returned to…
HARARE – A 21-YEAR-old Harare vendor has been spared a jail term after he was found putting on an army uniform, intending to deceive and impress his girlfriend. Harare magistrate Tayengwa Chibanda yesterday fined Givemore Hwata, after convicting him on his plea of guilty on impersonation charges. Magistrate Chibanda fined Hwata $50, failure of which…
HARARE – The attorney for a 13-year-old girl who says she was raped by Munyaradzi Kereke the former advisor to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono two years ago, has petitioned the police chief to act on the alleged sexual assault demanding justice and protection. Kereke is a board member of Zimpapers and…
HARARE – A deputy minister has intervened to save 300 families from eviction after the Daily News on Sunday exposed how a local chief was planning on purging villagers he termed “foreigners”. Reuben Marumahoko, the deputy minister of Regional Integration and International Cooperation, moved in last week to assure the affected families they would stay…
