HARARE – FC Platinum have lost all four matches to Dynamos in the Castle Premiership since joining the top-flight two seasons ago, but their coach Tenant Chilumba is not intimidated by that record ahead of this afternoon’s clash. The platinum miners’ bright start to the 2013 Castle Premiership season has spread hope across Zvishavane that…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must change its economic policies if the country is to halt heightening de-industrialisation, economists say. Most of the country’s companies — which were heavily battered by years of hyperinflation, obsolete machinery and massive power outages — have found it tough to operate in the illiquid dollarised economy. Since 2009, numerous firms have…
HARARE – Nothing lasts forever. The young eventually become the old and they subsequently perish. Such is the law of nature. 1980 is pretty different from 2013. Dialectical materialism dictates that life is in constant motion and more particularly, that the old gives way and collapses into the new. Thus, it will be utter folly…
HARARE – The first time this column appeared in another newspaper a few years ago, I started off by explaining the title. Lovers of popular music, the Beatles in particular, will recognise it as a song from the Fab Four’s Revolver album. So I doff my hat to Messrs Lennon and McCartney (its composers) for…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s love affair with South African songbird Zahara appears to be in no danger of ending anytime soon. The Mzansi singing sensation, who performed during the Victoria Falls Carnival on December 30, could be heading to Zimbabwe for the fourth time in April for a duet with Ninja president Winky D. Zahara was…
HARARE – While telecommunication technology has meant Zimbabwe catching up with the rest of the globe in the information superhighway, reports that cell phones have become a major contributor to our appalling road carnage are worrying. As reported in yesterday’s edition, as of this week, police countrywide arrested almost a thousand people and fined them…
HARARE – Government’s move to stop the acquisition of farms covered under Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (Bippa) although long overdue is most welcome. This comes after 40 farmers successfully sued government for $25 million at the International Court for Settlement of Investment disputes and more are also pursuing the legal route. Damage has…
HARARE – Harare’s parking business Easipark is battling a potentially crippling workers’ strike over contract renewal and salary issues. The workers, close to a hundred, took to the streets yesterday accusing Easipark of not following proper procedure in terminating their contracts and also short-changing them on salaries and commission. Easipark is a joint venture business…
HARARE – In a couple of weeks, the African Nations Cup will explode into life in South Africa, over two years after the World Cup brought Africa’s richest nation to a standstill, in most cases literally. For some of us who were privileged to be part of hundreds, if not thousands of journalists who covered…
HARARE – A transport dealer has appeared before a Harare magistrate for allegedly using a fake name and vehicle registration numbers to swindle a shipping company of $200 000 worth of cotton lint before attempting to bribe cops. Tonderai Ngoshi, 22, who is the director of Ngoshi Transport, yesterday appeared before magistrate Tendai Mahwe on…
