HARARE – Police have swooped on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s communications office looking for “subversive” material and arrested several officials in a development which raises questions about the country’s stability ahead of elections. Hours after a largely peaceful referendum on a draft constitution, over a dozen police officers raided the home of Tsvangirai’s principal director…
HARARE – Bleak House starts with a description of a thick fog that has engulfed London. The fog image is then used by Dickens to portray an interminable and ruinous legal case, that of Jarndyce v Jarndyce: “The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest. ……
HARARE – Zimbabwe will next month meet South African authorities to discuss, among other issues, the $100 million loan promised by the latter four years ago. In 2009, South Africa (SA) pledged the money to help its neighbour restart her economy — battered by a decade-long decline — but the funds are yet to be…
HARARE – Whatever outcome of the constitutional referendum held on Saturday; one thing undisputable is the silent voter apathy that has crept in the Zimbabwean society. Opportunists and all those bitter about the whole constitution-making process in general and the holding of the referendum in particular will seize this moment in a “we told you…
HARARE – Lifestyle Holdings’ (Lifestyle) plans to set up retail operations in South Africa (SA). This follows shareholders’ approval last Friday to delist the diversified group from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). Lifestyle, which recently set up TN Harlequin Luxaire International Limited (TNHLI) in Mauritius, intends to make Lifestyle a wholly-owned subsidiary of the new…
HARARE – It is not so long ago when the Daily News observed that serial political flip-flopper Jonathan Moyo – who only the desperate can trust – has been wailing more than the bereaved and behaving as though the same group has no voice or feelings of their own. It was also not so long…
HARARE – A Glen-View-based vagrant is facing murder charges relating to the death of a woman in a botched mobile phone robbery. Sinsamala Chinsi, 23, allegedly pounced on the late Jean Chindinda on January 31. Chindinda was walking home with a friend identified in court as Zodzwa Mwandira. Armed with a kitchen knife, Chinsi grabbed…
HARARE – Waking up on Saturday morning one could have thought the referendum could be washed away with the drizzle and chilly weather. But as the sun rose, the sky began to clear, paving way for the much-anticipated vote which turned out to be a big yawn as most Zimbabweans either boycotted or completely ignored…
HARARE – Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu has admitted for the first time that he has no idea whether his one-year Zimbabwean top-flight career is about to end. The Zambian, who is contracted to the Bulawayo giants until end of 2013, wants to continue in the job and is confident he has the support of the…
ZVISHAVANE – Zvishavane residents voted in significant numbers in yesterday’s constitutional referendum, in a poll seen as a test for democracy after disputed 2008 elections and one that could reshape politics of the southern African nation’s recovering economy. At 7am when voting opened, long lines had already formed at a polling station at Mandava Health…
