JOHANNESBURG – Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema will no longer address Implats workers in Rustenburg on Thursday, for fear of being arrested, the Friends of the Youth League said. “It has come to our attention that members of the SA [Police Service] were instructed by a politician to arrest us, since the mine…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is likely to achieve a 4 percent average growth rate for 2012 if its policy remains unchanged, the International Monetary Fund said in its annual review of the local economy. The IMF figure comes on the back of a forced downward review of the country’s growth targets to 5,6 percent by Finance…
HARARE – Popular and controversial pole dancer, Beverly Sibanda aka Bev said contrary to what her haters would like the world to believe, she is not performing in clubs so as to snatch other women’s husbands. The dancer, who has become a hit in Harare’s night clubs because of her raunchy dances, has been accused…
HARARE – FC Platinum yesterday returned to winning ways after they completed a double over Gunners to compound the former champions’ relegation woes. With the result, Gunners still occupy the last relegation spot with 19 points from 23 games. Donald Ngoma opened Platinum’s account as early as the fourth minute before Benjamin Marere extended Platinum’s…
HARARE – An interesting news story this month was the diplomatic tiff between Zimbabwe and Jamaica, two countries thousands of miles apart and yet somehow forever linked by cultural bonds. For those of us of a certain age, in fact anyone 20 years or so younger than the president of Zimbabwe – Robert Mugabe is…
NEW YORK – European delegates got an unusual reprieve at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday when the Iranian President offered them no reason to get up and walk out, a move that has become a bit of tradition for western delegations. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a history of controversial statements, but in his eighth…
HARARE – Government is not ready for the adoption and implementation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (Ipsas) as the Treasury is empty, a local economist has warned. Economist John Robertson said government is not ready to bankroll the public audit on politicians and public sector accounts required in the adoption and implementation of Ipsas…
HARARE – Suspected state security agents on Sunday confiscated 3 300 T-shirts, party cards, receipt books and $1 800 from mainstream MDC supporters in Karoi as they prepared for their party’s 13th anniversary celebrations scheduled for Bulawayo at the weekend. The party’s spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora confirmed to the Daily News that his party supporters were…
JOHANNESBURG – Former Zimbabwe captain Benjani Mwaruwari has stopped training with South African Premiership side SuperSport as his playing future continues to hang in the balance. The possibility of retirement seems a strong option for the former Manchester City forward, who had spent the last few weeks keeping fit with SuperSport, after having done the…
HARARE – Saviour Kasukuwere, Zimbabwe’s minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment stands accused of being anti foreign investment, fascist and thuggery, due to the black economic agenda he is currently prosecuting. The resentment and criticism has come more from within than outside Zimbabwe. The fundamental question is — is Kasukuwere and his empowerment mission…
