HARARE – Youths are outraged at the enactment of a new statutory instrument which forces them to pay hefty annual fees to the Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) and could be used to close down pro-democracy youth groups. “The statutory instrument makes our registration as Private Voluntary Organisations inadequate without registering with the Zimbabwe Youth Council,”…
HARARE – The US Cato Institute recently described Zimbabwe as a country with “one of the world’s worst business environments,” saying our economy is like an athlete on steroids, propped up by artificial injections of loans and aid from China and the West. With this shocking knowledge in mind, instead of bending over backwards to…
MASVINGO – Internationally acclaimed civic rights defender Reverend Jesse Jackson from the US will today grace the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Workers’ Day’s celebrations at Gwanzura Stadium in the capital Jackson is expected to address thousands of workers at the event. ZCTU secretary-general Japhet Moyo told the Daily News that the prominent rights…
HARARE – Zimbabwean swimming icon Kirsty Coventry was still in shock yesterday after being a victim of theft on Saturday night, fearing she might have contracted HIV during the scuffle with the robbers. The two-time Olympic champion and former world record holder had just jetted in Harare from Johannesburg when thieves smashed the back window…
HARARE – Close to two dozen activists from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC have been denied bail by magistrate Don Ndirowei. The group is alleged to have worn golf T-shirts inscribed “Ministry of Home Affairs” and caps with the Zimbabwe Government logo and moved around door to door asking if people had registered to vote….
WEDZA – Donning a straw hat to avoid the scorching heat, Bothwell Chimanga, 19, stood mesmerised as a group of dancers from Harare gyrated on a makeshift stage in between peace speeches at Wedza centre. Chimanga was part of hundreds of villagers of Wedza township dwellers who dumped their afternoon businesses to be at the…
HARARE – Underfire Triangle coach Gishon Ntini has called for calm in his camp following a string of poor results in the Castle Premiership. Ntini’s men succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of FC Platinum at the weekend, their fourth defeat of the season after six games. That poor run has seen the…
HARARE – It is lamentable that our politicians and other senior State bureaucrats have now resorted to blaming sanctions for almost anything that goes wrong without examining the real cause of societal challenges. That form of scurrilous pitch, while it sounds plausible to the elite, has lost traction with the majority of the people who…
HARARE – AfrAsia Kingdom Zimbabwe Limited (AKZL) is retrenching part of its staff under a “voluntary separation exercise”, businessdaily has established. The financial services group recently said it was restructuring or streamlining operations as part of strategies to contain costs and improve efficiency. According to documents in our possession, AKZL’s acting human resources head Lawrence…
HARARE – Information minister Webster Shamu stunned an audience of musicians and journalists on Monday after saying if he had an option to choose his father before birth, he would have chosen President Robert Mugabe. Shamu, who has in the past compared Mugabe to a popular milk brand, made the bizarre remarks at the official…
