HARARE – Think back over the last five months and ask yourself what you have achieved. It would take you some time before coming up with something worthy to mention. But ask that same question to 15-year-old Vivien Onamusi and she does not even know where to begin. The Arundel Girls High School student is…
HARARE – The referendum has come and gone and if we are to believe the pronouncements, it was approved “by an overwhelming majority”. They were not a majority, let alone overwhelming. But where was everybody? Surely, a quarter of the population cannot make such gestures of electoral permanency on behalf of the majority and the…
NEW DELHI – India-Africa trade partnership is expected to reach $90 billion by 2015. This was said at 9th session of the Confederation of India Industry (CII)-Exim Bank Conclave held in New Delhi India. Exim Bank CEO, TCA Ranganathan said his organisation is ready to engage individual countries in establishing win-win trade partnerships. “India-Africa trade…
HARARE – Takashinga Two (2) warmed-up for today’s National League matches with an emphatic 136-run victory over Rainbow in a Vigne Cup Twenty20 match played in Highfield last weekend. National team players Elton Chigumbura and Tinotenda Mutombodzi put up a 115-run first wicket partnership that laid a solid foundation for Takashinga 2’s win at Takashinga…
HARARE – Vice President Joice Mujuru says women are their own enemies as they continue to attack each other when campaigning for positions of authority. Speaking at a belated International Women’s Day celebration, Mujuru said at times women are “jealous” of each other’s success, ending up sabotaging national progress. “Dzimwe nguva ndinonetsekana muhunhu wedu isu…
BULWAYO – A Lupane-based youths civic group has reburied the protruding remains of suspected Gukurahundi victims who were buried at a mass grave at Silwane Primary School in Lupane, Matabeleland North in defiance of government directives. Mid last year the minister of National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation Moses Mzila Ndlovu was invited by the villagers…
HARARE – A police officer who refused a whopping $250 000 bribe was yesterday crowned cop of the year for 2012. Detective constable Chenjerai Zambuko of the police’s Border Control and Minerals Unit walked away with a $3 000 cash prize for his sterling professionalism. On June 10 last year, Zambuko received information that two…
HARARE – Legislators spent the better part of last week in their constituencies drumming up support for the draft constitution which won a near unanimous vote last weekend. The referendum has set the tempo for harmonised elections to be held as early as July. Referendum voting in Mashonaland Central Province Barely a week after the…
HARARE – The menacing build-up to a watershed election likely to be held in July seems like a replay of the violent, rigged elections that have plagued Zimbabwe over the past decade. Last week Tsvangirai helplessly watched his staffers being remanded in prison — in what analysts say is a repeat of the days precluding…
HARARE – The administration, environment and outcome of the constitutional referendum on the draft constitution held on March 16 were quite interesting in a number of ways. A critical analysis of the results is especially interesting as Zimbabwe prepares for a general election to be held sometime this year. Firstly, my observation is that the…
