HARARE – Struggling Castle Premiership side Hwange have restructured their coaching department as they battle to save the team from relegation. Hwange assistant coach Mabelo Njekwa has been redeployed to the Under-20 side that competes in the Southern Region Division One league. Chipangano have recalled Brian Njovu from the Under-20 side and he will now…
HARARE – China has donated a set of medical equipment worth $50 000 to Zimbabwe. The medical equipment comprising of ureteroscopes was delivered yesterday at a handover ceremony at the University of Zimbabwe. The ceremony was attended by a visiting delegation from China’s Hunan provincial department of health led by Lin Andi, who is the…
HARARE – Zimbabwean consumers prefer to buy clothes from flea markets than stores such as Edgars and Truworths as high interests’ rates and liquidity challenges in the country continue to erode their low disposable incomes, a recent report has shown. Lynton Edwards Stockbrokers (Les) reported that the decline in sales from traditional fashion stores can…
HARARE – The draft constitution’s stance on the death penalty patronises women and depicts them as a weaker sex, civil society has said. Speaking at the commemorations of the European and World Day against the Death Penalty in the capital yesterday, Amnesty International Zimbabwe (Amnesty) and Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the…
HARARE – High Court judge Chinembiri Bhunu yesterday attacked lawyers representing 29 MDC activists accused of killing a cop last year as he denied the murder suspects bail again. In denying the activists bail, Bhunu said lawyers representing the MDC supporters accused of killing police inspector Petros Mutedza in Harare’s Glen View suburb in May…
HARARE – Business came to a standstill yesterday at National Aids Council (Nac) offices as close to a 100 members of Zimbabwe National Network for People Living with HIV/Aids (ZNNP+) staged a demonstration. But they received a hostile reception from Nac director for communication Madeline Dube who told them they were not special. Nac officials…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has finally signed into law the Human Rights Bill which will allow for the investigation of cases of politically-motivated violence albeit starting from 2009. This means Gukurahundi and 2008 atrocities will be ignored. The Act, to be gazetted tomorrow, could have an impact on the country’s electoral environment which for…
HARARE – Economic growth in Zimbabwe is expected to slow down to four percent by 2017, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday. In its recent World Economic Outlook report, the IMF said Zimbabwe’s economy is expected to register a five percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year and six percent next year…
HARARE – A manager at a petroleum firm has appeared before a Harare magistrate on allegations of swindling another company of fuel worth over $37 000. Bernard Kizito Mvere, 54, the Downtown Petroleum general manager yesterday appeared before magistrate Anita Tshuma on fraud charges. The court heard Mkhonto Sazini Dingani, one of the directors of…
HARARE – Broadcaster and poet, Soneni aka Thandeka Gwizi says she is proudly Zimbabwean and proudly disabled. Soneni’s wish is to become an ambassador of women with disability. And there is every reason why she should be so excited about who she is and what she has achieved. Soneni is the 2012 JCI Zimbabwe —10…
