HARARE – Victoria Falls is set to have its biggest ever end-of year-party. A music carnival will take place in the resort town from December 29 to New Year’s Eve that will feature among others superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi and South African music sensation Zahara who has performed twice in Zimbabwe before. Also coming from…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s year-on-year inflation rate dipped to 2,99 percent in November from 3,38 percent in the previous month, Zimbabwe Statistics (Zimstats) has said. Zimstats said the decline was due to lower clothing and wine costs. The month-on-month inflation rate in November stood at 0,13 percent shedding 0,13 percentage points on the October 2012 rate…
BULAWAYO – Adam Ndlovu’s final resting place has been confirmed and the legendary striker will be buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo on Saturday. Family spokesman Madinda Ndlovu yesterday briefed journalists on the burial programme, which will begin on Friday. “The programme is two way with the first part being on Friday when Adam’s…
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended a ban on Americans adopting Russian children, which has been proposed by the Russian parliament. He said the bill, a response to the US Magnitsky Act which bars entry to Russian alleged human rights violators, was “appropriate”. Russian officials, he said, were not allowed to sit in…
HARARE – The introduction of independent power producers into Zimbabwe’s electricity sector will involve big changes, as what had been accepted as a natural monopoly starts the metamorphosis to an open, competitive electricity market. We welcome the move by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to license 10 independent power producers (IPPs) with a capacity…
HARARE – The late Tongai Moyo’s wife Miniehle Mkweli and Kwekwe businessman Bamet Mutosvori are demanding $2 million from two local newspapers which reported that the pair had become an item. H Metro and the Saturday Herald, owned by the Zimpapers stable recently reported that Miniehle was heavily pregnant as a result of the affair….
HARARE – Construction group Radar Holdings Limited (Radar) says it is divesting from its forestry business Border Timbers Limited (Border) to focus on core business. Heinrich von Pezold, Radar’s chairperson, said the disposal was necessary given the differing financial needs and focus of the companies. “This will allow Radar to build on the already positive…
HARARE – Last Friday, at about 4.30pm, I arrived at a hotel in Harare and proceeded to reception to check-in. After conducting the formalities at the reception, Adam Ndlovu, who was seated in the hotel lobby with Hwange coach Nation Dube, spotted me. I went to where he was seated and he told me he…
HARARE – Core Mining has dragged ex-diamond mining partner, Marange Resources, to an arbitrator challenging the seizure of its shareholding rights in a joint venture company Canadile, now operating as Marange Resources (Marange). Government through Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) partnered with Core Mining under its shelf company Marange, to form Canadile miners. The joint…
HARARE – The female companion who died alongside former Zimbabwe football international Adam Ndlovu has been identified as Nomqhele Tshili, a 24-year-old mom of one from Bulawayo. The beauty from the City of King was traveling with brothers Adam and Peter from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls in the wee hours of Sunday morning when tragedy…
