HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cricket team returns to Harare tomorrow from Matabeleland after a three-day bonding camp at bowling coach Heath Streak’s family farm in Turk Mine. Assistant coach Steve Mangongo said the camp achieved its objectives ahead of next month’s ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, where they are pooled in Group C with…
HARARE – A 30-year-old woman who allegedly stole more than $120 000 from her boss was arraigned before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. Keritea da Silva, 30, appeared before the Harare magistrate Anita Tshuma facing theft charges. The State alleges that sometime in May this year at Digital Lifestyle at the Joina City in Harare’s…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Finance minister Tendai Biti on Monday said more than $20 billion was needed for infrastructure projects such as road and rail networks and to fully kick-start the re-emerging mining industry. “The thirst for capital in our country is huge and high,” Biti said at a ceremony to unveil a $64,3 million credit…
HARARE – Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also secretary-general of the MDC formation 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 interview with Voice of America’s Violet Gonda (VD), Tendai Biti (TB) talks about the Southern African…
HARARE – Medical workers employed by Harare CityCouncil are lazy, Harare Residents Trust (HRT) said yesterday. HRT director Precious Shumba, speaking during a budget pre-consultative meeting in Harare, said the increase in the number of referrals at central hospitals was a result of incompetent staff employed by the authority. “The truth is your nurses and…
HARARE – He received a lashing over the social network for his statements — from some of the strongest and most respected women in the country — and even though he was clearly out of line, he still maintains his idiotic sentiment. What scares me about this is not just this idiot’s attitude, but that…
HARARE – Officials from President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF are offering coalition partners a “bargain” to break the deadlock over a new constitution. Zanu PF says the parties must conduct an audit of a draft negotiated by the three parties under the auspices of a parliamentary body known as Copac against views expressed by Zimbabweans…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation (ZMF) says there is need to capacitate small scale miners to ensure the attainment of the projected double-digit growth in the mining industry and to curb rampant gold smuggling. The local mining industry which is anticipated to play a critical role in the resurgence of the local economy is…
HARARE – A self-proclaimed prophet, who forced a 13-year-old boy to sodomise him, was jailed for 12 years at the Harare Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Mathodias Matambo, 26, appeared before regional magistrate Adonia Masawi facing charges of aggravated indecency. Masawi sentenced Matambo to 12 years in jail. Five years were suspended on condition Matambo does not…
HARARE – Local companies which constitute half of Zesa Holdings (Zesa)’s $600 million debtors’ book are struggling to pay their power bills, group chief executive Josh Chifamba said. He said the corporate world, which is struggling to secure capital and still recovering from a decade of hyperinflation and economic stagnation, owes the power utility $300…
