HARARE – Zimbabwe-focused junior gold miner, New Dawn Mining (New Dawn) this week received approval from Falcon Gold (Falgold) minority shareholders to acquire all their outstanding shares as part of its restructuring. “Pursuant to a circular provided to Falgold shareholders, the miner proposed a scheme of arrangement whereby all of the ordinary shares of…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s mother Lydia says her son’s ex-fiancée Locardia Karimatsenga must present her grievances to a traditional dare (court) in Buhera and not in the courts of law. And apparently, she does not object to the PM forming his own polygamous family if he so wishes. She opened up about her…
HARARE – A former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) official Joseph Banda has been jailed for four years after being convicted on 15 counts of fraud and two counts of impersonating a senior police officer. Harare regional magistrate William Bhila yesterday sentenced Banda to four years in prison on the 15 counts of fraud, and…
HARARE – The Chinamhora communal lands’ ritual murders have left a sour test in the mouth, particularly in this modern age. As such, we can only welcome the move by police and army to keep vigil in the villages to protect residents who are understandably living in terror after the murder of seven people in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe football coach Rahman Gumbo yesterday named a largely unchanged provisional 24-man squad for next month’s 2013 African Nations Cup final qualifier against Angola. The Warriors take on the Palancas Negras on the weekend of October 12-14 in Luanda carrying a 3-1 lead from the first leg played at Rufaro Stadium earlier this…
HARARE – These are some of the adjectives that one can use to describe the MDC participation in the so-called “inclusive” government. I am exactly two years and three months old as a deputy minister in this government. My experience as a minister in this apparently unique type of government will be fully disclosed when…
HARARE – A dark cloud hung over the rest of the world on November 10, 1995 with news that Nigerian activist Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other Ogoni people were executed in Port Harcourt by the late military hardman Sani Abacha. International human rights organisations condemned the killing of the leader of the Movement for…
HARARE – Zimbabwe yesterday successfully hosted its first football indaba with the Asiagate match-fixing scandal hogging the limelight during deliberations. Zifa, the ministry of Sports, the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) and the corporate sector all attended the conference. Addressing reporters after the indaba, Sports minister David Coltart said he will now table before Parliament…
HARARE – A last-gasp winner by midfielder Masimba Mambare catapulted Highlanders back to the top of the Castle Premiership table on an afternoon Dynamos fullback Guthrie Zhokinyi’s late own goal against Chicken Inn in Bulawayo generously aided Bosso’s cause. The Bulawayo giants have now opened a one-point lead over second-placed Dynamos. Mambare’s winner against Hwange…
HARARE – Air Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd (AirZim) is expected to resume regional flights within the next four weeks, Transport minister Nicholas Goche says. This follows Tourism minister Walter Muzembi’s April statement that the national airline would restart flights by June this year to support the tourism sector ahead of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation…
