HARARE – A Harare magistrate has freed Big Brother Africa (BBA) reality TV show winner, Wendall Parson on $200 bail. Magistrate Donald Ndirowei granted bail to Parson on Monday afternoon. Parson was arrested for allegedly defrauding $25 000 from an insurance company. According to State papers, the celebrity is accused of forging documents which he…
HARARE – Zambian president Michael Sata, who has offered grain to Zimbabwe for next to free, faces a revolt at home for adopting measures which could increase hunger. An admirer of President Robert Mugabe’s often violent and chaotic land reforms, Sata has agreed to give grain to starving Zimbabwe on easy terms which could see…
HARARE – Scores of people were left out of the voter registration exercise as officials from the Registrar General is department closed two hours early. Instead of closing the mobile voter registration at 7pm as had been advised in the media, officials from the RG’s office in Southerton closed doors at 4pm, much to the…
ACCRA – Nigerian police say they were overwhelmed by the large crowd when a stampede killed four people at a church in Ghana’s capital, Accra, on Sunday. Thousands of people flocked to the evangelical church for “holy water”, which they believed had healing powers, leading to the crush. “All of us were caught by surprise….
BULAWAYO – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC on Sunday unveiled scores of Zanu PF and smaller MDC faction card-carrying members who dumped their parties in Bulawayo, in a move the party says confirms the first yields of the door-to-door (D2D) campaign. The campaign was launched recently by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the Large City…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has failed to announce dates for the much-awaited harmonised elections as he promised two weeks ago. Mugabe, 89, has been clamouring for polls since 2009, but upped the ante a fortnight ago when he threatened to make a proclamation by last Saturday. Three days after his deadline passed, his…
HARARE – Female challenger Irene Bete, has entered a sizzling presidential race comprising 29 men. The 66-year-old becomes the only independent woman candidate in the hot race. She becomes the 30th candidate out to win the hearts and minds of Zimbabweans. She is squaring off with political heavyweights like President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister…
HARARE – One in every three children under the age of five is chronically malnourished, while an estimated 25 percent of deaths of children under the age of five is a result of nutritional deficiencies in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has said. He was speaking during the launch of the Food and Nutrition Security Policy…
HARARE – United Nations’ International Labour Organisation (ILO) in its Global Labour Framework index of 2013 stated that there has never been a worldly youth unemployment rate like the one being currently experienced. The report notes that of the 73,4 million young people, 12,6 percent are expected to be out of work in 2013, an…
HARARE – Imagine President Robert Mugabe appearing live on national television’s news hour programme announcing that he has had enough as president and is now resigning permanently from active politics. News that Sir Alex Ferguson, European football coach laureate and Manchester United’s manager had announced his retirement came as a surprise not only to Europe…
