HARARE – The Zimbabwe Kickboxing Association has intensified preparations for the upcoming kickboxing African Nations Championships. The association will be hosting the Open Challenge Super Amateur tournament today at Harare Girls High School in a bid to fine tune local kick boxers ahead of the country’s maiden appearance at the Championships, set for Madagascar later…
HARARE – Vusi Laher, who captained the Zimbabwe Under-23 that agonisingly came close to winning the 1995 All-Africa Games gold medal, never imagined he would reach dizzy heights as a footballer, preferring to play the game as a pastime. Laher, who began his rise to prominence at the famed Zimbabwe Grounds where he turned out…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said he suspected there was a covert political hand behind attempts by his ex-fiancée Locadia Karimatsenga to scuttle his wedding ceremony. Karimatsenga’s application filed in the Harare High Court yesterday seeking an interdict to stop the Prime Minister’s planned wedding to Elizabeth Macheka at the Rain Tree Gardens…
HARARE – Finance Minister Tendai Biti biggest bloat on his tenure as the national treasurer is the placement of banks on curatorship and persistent challenges that stalk the banking sector. Try as we might to give him and his colleagues in the inclusive government the plaudits, the fact is that the tremors felt in the…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today launch the “Vote Yes” campaign to the Copac draft Constitution at the Harare Show Grounds at 10am. The Yes Vote campaign will be held under theme; “My Voice is in – My Vote is Yes.” “The campaign is meant to sensitise, inform, educate and engage the people…
HARARE – Togo-based transnational banking group Ecobank says it remains open to new acquisition opportunities in Zimbabwe. “We have a flexible strategy, we don’t rule out anything. If an opportunity presents itself to acquire a bank, we will look at it,” said Arnold Ekpe, Ecobank group chief executive. “You might not know but as a…
HARARE – In the aftermath of Finance minister Tendai Biti’s state of the economy address Thursday, one cannot help but sympathise with the man due to the dire numbers and situation this country finds itself in. On one hand, the feisty lawyer is under pressure to find money for civil sector bonuses and fund agriculture,…
HARARE – Grain processor National Foods Holdings Limited (NFHL) recorded a 23,6 percent growth in after-tax profit to $7,9 million in the year to June 2012. Earnings per share went up 57 percent to $11,55 during the period under review. The firm said the performance was driven by a 15 percent growth in volumes, better…
HARARE – Finance Minister Tendai Biti, who is also secretary-general of the mainstream MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, has insisted that his party would oppose changes made by Zanu PF to the final draft constitution. In this continuation of an interview with Voice of America’s Violet Gonda (VG), Biti (TB) talks about the…
HARARE – MDC spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora has been acquitted by a Harare magistrate on two fraud charges he has been facing since 2005. Mwonzora and Alfred Muchini appeared before Magistrate Hosea Mujaya, with Obi Mabawana representing the state. The trial took place on Tuesday. The state called in five witnesses to testify against Mwonzora on…
