HARARE – Twalumba United technical manager Wilson Mutekede believes Dynamos have made a fantastic signing in Boban Zirintusa. The 21-year-old Uganda international joined the Glamour Boys last week following the expiry of his contract with the division one outfit Twalumba. And now Mutekede, who initially brought the Ugandan into the country two years ago, reckons…
HARARE – Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has accused the MDC side of government of paying lip service to the issue of civil servants salaries despite the party’s labour roots. Speaking to the Daily News ahead of a meeting between government and civil servants’ representatives (Apex Council) tomorrow, the secretary-general of the militant teachers’…
HARARE – Mwana Africa plc (Mwana)’s plans to restart production at Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) in Mashonaland Central province are on course. The AIM-listed group said 1 337m of underground development, allowing for the re-commissioning of rock handling systems, shafts and surface crushing facilities, had been executed while 41 000 tonnes of ore were crushed…
HARARE – A row has erupted over the Insurance and Pension Commission (Ipec)’s tender to engage a human resources consultancy, with insurance players seeking government’s intervention. Ipec last week issued a tender seeking the services of a human resources consultancy to assist in the restructuring exercise of the commission to ensure that it becomes more…
HARARE – Zimbabwean sportsmen believe the Lance Armstrong saga is just a tip of the iceberg in a wide ranging battle against the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs by professional sportsmen. A fight, sadly, that may never be won. Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and given a lifetime ban…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (Zinatha) yesterday dispatched a crack team to probe an explosion at a Chitungwiza house where five people died on Monday. “We are sending our experts to the crime scene, we hope the police will allow them to do their job because as the responsible panel, we are…
HARARE – Several Zimbabwean mining operations could be disrupted and lose millions due to incessant rains. With the country’s meteorological services predicting that heavy rains would continue countrywide, gem miner Marange Resources (Marange) has said it lost nearly $5 million worth of diamonds, which were washed away by the rains pounding the country. Marange told…
HARARE – The Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) has ruled out any further amendments to the constitution draft. A draft constitution is now ready after drafters and Copac chairpersons yesterday managed to incorporate changes that were agreed to by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, bringing to an end a costly process that has…
HARARE – One of the spurious reasons why Zanu PF launched into a misaligned campaign against the Copac Draft Constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe is its fixation against the provisional issue of running mates articulated in Section 5.5(2) of the draft, but what is clear in the vociferous rejection by Zanu PF is a…
HARARE – A bomb could have caused the mysterious blast that killed five people in Chitungwiza on Monday, as top security officials cordoned the area yesterday searching for clues. Top officials from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) (homicide and law and order section), a foreign pathologist and members of the army’s bomb disposal unit have…
