HARARE – Zimbabwe has earned a total $61,1 million from tobacco sales since the beginning of the 2013 marketing season a month ago, a 7,4 percent increase from $56,9 million realised same period last year. The tobacco auctions have so far sold 17 million kg of the commodity at an average $3,59 per kg, up…
HARARE – Churches in Zimbabwe have resolved to endorse the new draft constitution crafted by a committee of Parliament commonly referred to as Copac and set for a referendum this weekend. Following a series of meetings in Harare and Bulawayo, the heads of Christian denominations, a grouping of church leaders across the country, decided to…
HARARE – For 89-year-old ailing strongman President Robert Mugabe and his band of former guerrillas in Zanu PF, the coming general elections are a matter of life and death. History is replete with examples of nationalist movements that died a natural death as soon as they lost power and we need not go any further…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe triathlon team leaves tomorrow for Sunday’s South Africa Triathlon Championships in East London. The team will compete in part two of the Trans-Limpopo Challenge, a two-part international competition between Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Triathlon Association of Zimbabwe (Taz) has ensured the event becomes a success with the help of Jono…
HARARE – Francisco Zekumbawira has revealed he is keen to start his Dynamos career in earnest away to Tunisian club CA Bizertin in the African Champions League on Sunday. The long-time Glamour Boys target has made two appearances for the Zimbabwean champions in the Bob89 Super Cup 4-0 demolition of Highlanders and the 1-0 defeat…
HARARE – Four years after Zimbabwe had one of its bloodiest polls since independence in 1980 — political tensions are mounting and the shadows of the past have returned yet again to haunt ordinary civilians. In what many see as a flashback to the horrors of Zimbabwe’s violent 2008 elections, an innocent 12-year-old schoolboy was…
HARARE – The Securities Commission of Zimbabwe (SecZim) has cancelled Renaissance Securities (Renaissance) and New Africa Securities’ (New Africa) licences for failing to raise $150 000 minimum capital. Tafadzwa Chinamo, SecZim chief executive, said following the cancellation of its licence by the commission, Renaissance has been placed under provisional liquidation. “Members of the public who…
HARARE – They usually appear macho and all-conquering, but Zimbabwean men are turning out to be the weaker sex when it comes to health matters. So lily-livered are Zimbabwean men that the majority of them cannot even muster enough courage to visit a health centre to check on their HIV status and other health issues,…
HARARE – Zimbabweans in the Diaspora must be given voting rights in the forthcoming referendum and watershed elections, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has ruled. The ACHPR has directed the government to allow Zimbabweans living abroad to vote in the March 16 referendum and the general elections that will follow, irrespective…
HARARE – Zimbabwean women are suffering health risks arising from being exposed to indoor smoke. But the problem is not unique to Zimbabwe: nearly three billion people, most living in low-income countries, rely on solid fuel for cooking, lighting and heating. Health experts said the great challenge is that Zimbabweans are unaware of the problem,…
