HARARE – Ex-Hwange Colliery Company (HCC) boss Fred Moyo has been freed on a $1 000 bail by Harare magistrate Don Ndirowei after being accused of swindling a gold mining company of $2,5 million-plus. With Moyo’s alleged accomplice named as self-styled South African financier Paul Diamond, the court heard that the group’s company Gold Recovery…
HARARE – Despite carrying a healthy 3-0 first leg lead, Dynamos will not put their feet off the accelerator in the African Champions League qualifying round second leg away to Lesotho Correctional Services on Sunday. A draw or narrow defeat in Maseru will still see the Zimbabwean champions through to the first round of Africa’s…
HARARE – Otis Goredema has been appointed national bodybuilding interim president following an executive board meeting in Harare last week. The former National Federation of Zimbabwe Bodybuilding and Fitness (NFZBBF) secretary-general replaces Shamim Hussein, who resigned early this month to concentrate on family business. Health and All-Pharmacy owner Mark MucAdams was appointed new secretary- general…
HARARE – A ZB Life Assurance policyholder was yesterday left furious after the insurance firm paid him only $3 after more than 10 years of religiously paying his premiums. Jemias Mapingire, a 64-year-old policy holder accused ZB Life Assurance Limited of betrayal and broken promises after he got a paltry $3,69 as maturity proceeds from…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has received another honorary doctorate degree from the Sun Moon University in South Korea, in recognition of his efforts towards attaining peace and democracy in Zimbabwe. Sun Moon University granted Tsvangirai an honorary doctorate in Public Administration and commended the former trade unionist for pursuing a peaceful and non-violent…
HARARE – Racing enthusiasts are set for another exciting public drag racing series when the Dragpro 2013 season gets underway at Donnybrook on Saturday. The Dragpro series has six racing days which run throughout the year. Cars expected to be racing on the day range from basic run-arounds through to performance production cars and several…
HARARE – Tuesday was one of those days when the batting went to sleep, and never woke up. Before the first ball was bowled, Zimbabwe were already dealt a crippling blow when the in-form Craig Ervine was declared unavailable due to an asthma attack. According to reports, Ervine had suffered the attack in the second…
HARARE – Douglas Mwonzora, the co-chairperson of the Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac), has taken brickbats from former comrades in their struggle for a “New Zimbabwe”. It is not difficult to find why Mwonzora and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC family have been brandished a modern Judas Iscariot by agreeing to have a new…
HARARE – Prices of basic commodities like cooking oil and lately mealie meal have been silently rising. This has further eroded the already weakened buying power of most poor households living below both the food poverty line and poverty datum line. While the land reform programme was touted as the only sustainable means of dealing…
HARARE – SLAIN Christpower Maisiri was born in Radze Mountain in 2000 as his parents hid from marauding shock-troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. On Saturday night, he met his death in a politically-orchestrated arson attack, again blamed on Zanu PF. It has been a roller coaster for the 12-year-old boy. Since birth,…
