HARARE – Air Zimbabwe management is considering re-engaging its pilots and cabin crew to avert further strikes as the national airline re-launches after a tumultuous era. Ozias Bvute, the new Air Zimbabwe chairman told the parliamentary portfolio committee on State Enterprises and Parastatals that as a way of gaining confidence amongst its travelling public, the…
HARARE – Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa says he was not responsible for Headlands boy Christpower Maisiri’s death, his lawyers said on Monday. While the Daily News, among other local and international media organisations, has reported on the tragedy, the paper has never sought to assert that the Zanu PF secretary for administration had a…
HARARE – The MDC led by Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube, which pulled from the Copac publicity campaigns, says it is going to run a parallel programme in order to get to all corners of the country. Ncube’s MDC pulled out of Copac on the basis that Zanu PF and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s…
HARARE – The Zimplats Indigenisation (ZI) transaction has exposed the disconnection between the minds of key policymakers as well as the generational challenge that faces Zimbabwe. It is evident from the construction of the debate that there is a serious fault line in the understanding of the need and value of altering the member register…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket yesterday officially released the itinerary for the forthcoming Bangladesh tour of Zimbabwe which includes two Tests, three One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches. The Bangladesh team is due to arrive on April 9 soon after Zimbabwe returns from their on-going tour of the West Indies. Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo will…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (pictured) has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to ensure that citizens hitherto disenfranchised as aliens are registered as voters in line with the new constitution in the offing. Tsvangirai’s political advisor, Alex Magaisa, told journalists after the PM’s meeting with visiting Swedish minister of International Development and Co-operation…
HARARE – The deputy sheriff has attached two vehicles belonging to Chitungwiza North MP Fidelis Mhashu. Mhashu, an MDC legislator, yesterday filed an urgent chamber application seeking to bar the deputy sheriff from attaching his Mercedes Benz and a commuter omnibus, following a court order entered in November last year. In the application, Mhashu cited…
HARARE – Rising music star Jah Prayzah will launch his forthcoming album Tsviriyo in the United Kingdom early next month. The 10-track album will be launched on March 27 in Harare after which the 25-year-old Uzumba-born artiste, who put up an impressive act during Sunday’s Zimbabwe National Army Charity Shield at Rufaro stadium, will fly…
CARACAS – Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night after the announcement that their president, Hugo Chávez, had died aged 58 after a long battle against cancer. The country’s vice-president, Nicolás Maduro – tipped as a likely successor – broke the news on Tuesday night, prompting a wave of grief…
HARARE – A youth leader in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is in police custody after allegedly making insulting remarks about President Robert Mugabe. MDC Youth Assembly chairman Solomon Madzore was summoned to Harare Central Police Station’s Law and Order unit on Wednesday. Upon his arrival at the police station yesterday morning, he was told…
