HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is in the Far East in the latest in a series of whirlwind international trips, raising questions about what the 89-year-old leader seeks to achieve with this gruelling diplomatic schedule. He is visiting Japan to attend the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad), and flew out hardly a…
HARARE – Parliamentarians have ordered Small and Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development minister Sithembiso Nyoni to immediately appear before a Parliamentary committee after she sent proxies. The SME portfolio committee led by chairperson Albert Mhlanga had summoned Nyoni and her permanent secretary Evelyn Ndlovu to give oral evidence on the ministry’s first quarter budget performance…
HARARE – With about 940 days left to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), achieving maternal health outlined in MDG 5 is a long shot for Zimbabwe. The current maternal mortality rate in Zimbabwe stands at 960 deaths per 100 000 births, which, according to the UN resident coordinator Alain Noudehou, is 92…
HARARE – THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has appointed Alban Chirume as its new chief executive. Eve Gadzikwa, the bourse’s chairperson, said Chirume’s appointment is with effect from June 1. “The appointment was done independently and was not in any way influenced by any institution or individual,” she said. Chirume replaces Martin Matanda who has…
HARARE – Government has allocated $500 000 towards establishment of the Commodity Exchange of Zimbabwe (Comez). Finance minister Tendai Biti said he expected the exchange to commence operations soon, ahead of the 2013/14 agricultural season. Comez — which has been on the cards for the past four years — is targeted at playing a key…
HARARE – He one of Zimbabwe’s biggest brands. But sungura maestro Alick Macheso is on his knees, with his Orchestra Mberikwazvo band in tatters. Band members leaving in droves forced Macheso to cancel some shows, a sign of desperate times. But his business partner and co-director of recording label Last Power, Last Murerwa, says…
DAMASCUS – Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has warned Israel that it will respond in kind to any future air strikes. Mr Assad told a Lebanese TV channel a Russian contract to supply it with air defence missiles was being implemented – but did not confirm any deliveries. Israel has warned it will attack if the…
HARARE – Cuthbert Malajila has been recalled to the Zimbabwe national team for the first time since October for a dead-rubber World Cup qualifier against Egypt next week. The free-scoring striker, who had an impressive debut season with South African Premiership side Maritzburg United, will be competing for a spot up front alongside Knowledge Musona,…
BULAWAYO – Mainstream MDC members in Insiza South constituency in Matabeleland South Province were left in shock after an aspiring parliamentary candidate collapsed and died just a day after he was elected to stand on the party ticket in the country’s watershed elections to be held later this year. Jabulani Dube was elected on Tuesday…
HARARE – South Africa-based businessman Mutumwa Mawere has given the Registrar General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede until today to respond to his Zimbabwean citizenship request before he approaches the High Court for redress. Mudede has ignored Mawere’s request for a Zimbabwean identification (ID) card, though according to the new Constitution which came into force on May…
