HARARE – Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) has embarked on a massive recruitment drive as the mining company gears for full-scale resumption of operations after a four-year breather. BNC’s Trojan Mine, a smelter and a refinery have been on care and maintenance since September 2008 as a result of a collapse in the global nickel prices…
HARARE – Excitement, anticipation and dance took centre stage at the opening of the constitution Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference yesterday as delegates cheered the country’s political gladiators. First to receive a standing ovation from the cross-party gallery was Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as he strode to his seat at the high table. He was immediately followed…
HARARE – Employees of FMI Zimbabwe (FMI) have approached the High Court seeking an order to compel Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere to cancel the former’s acquisition of BP & Shell Marketing Services (BPSMS) local assets. This comes after the minister was quoted in the local media saying the controversial deal was one of the success…
HARARE – The right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the Zimbabwe Constitution. But that right is subject to certain rules and regulations and those restrictions are precisely for events such as the ongoing Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference. It is absolutely imperative that the ongoing conference is firstly, peaceful and secondly orderly. The government, for instance,…
HARARE – A Harare man who allegedly threatened to kill a woman accusing her of trying to topple President Robert Mugabe and then demanding money to protect her has been arraigned before a Harare magistrate. Tatenda Calton Chitumbira, 28, appeared before magistrate Olivia Mariga on impersonating police officer, public officer or public official and extortion…
HARARE – Only three mines in Zimbabwe are yet to table plans on how they will comply with the country’s 51 percent indigenisation programme, according to Saviour Kasukuwere, the firebrand Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment minister. Zanu PF hawks, using the indigenisation programme as an anchor for the party’s election campaign for next year’s polls,…
HARARE – Patrick Chinamasa, the Justice and Legal Affairs minister has earned the ire of Zanu PF attack dogs after he made comments that they say opens Zimbabwe to a potential military invasion. In an interview published last week, Chinamasa told the BBC that security organisations would only back political leaders who fought in the…
GWERU – Zimbabwe’s famed mbira orchestra; Mbira Dzenharira believes recording companies are inadequately supplying the market, thus creating a gap for pirates. Mbira Dzenharira’s Chaka Chakandika told Daily News that local recording companies created artificial shortages, hence fuelling piracy. “We many look north, south, east and west and never find a solution to the piracy…
HARARE – Three former police officers are on the run after being implicated in a fraud case that has landed three other men in court. Ex-cops Joseph Mauta, Handrick Matseru and Kufakunesu Mukucha are still at large after allegedly swindling a gold dealer, Stephen Tasiyana, of 132 grammes of gold. They have since been discharged…
HARARE – Immigration officials have slammed the Finance ministry for slowing down the upgrading of the Beitbridge border post. Officials are now hoping that Finance minister Tendai Biti will use the 2013 budget to rectify the situation. Charles Gwede, the assistant immigration manager in charge of Beitbridge Border Post said infrastructure at the country’s busiest…
