HARARE – Zimbabwe has registered a 17 percent increase in tourist arrivals to 404 282 in the first quarter of 2013, figures released by the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) reveal. “The ever increasing regional trade and commerce also contribute immensely to the growth through indirect transiting tourists and business tourists as shown by the current…
MASVINGO – Primary elections victory celebrations for MDC winning candidate, Allan Moyo turned tragic on Saturday after one of his hired vehicles ran over and killed a party official while skidding in Masvingo central. Supporters who were celebrating Moyo’s victory after trouncing three other contestants, suddenly turned into mourning after, the driver of a small…
HARARE – A heavily pregnant Zimbabwean woman collapsed at the Zimbabwe -South Africa border post over the weekend after standing in the queue for hours at the busy Beitbridge Post. The woman who was later attended to by a South African immigration officer almost gave birth at the border on her way from South Africa…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has partnered India to form a mining joint venture. The venture — planning to develop four mining reserves in Zimbabwe — targets chrome, gold, iron and diamonds. Last week, India’s State-owned NMDC Limited (NMDC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mosi oa tunya Development Company (MtDC) — a special purpose vehicle…
JOHANNESBURG – Having been deprived of seeing his own children grow up during his years in jail, Mandela has shown a commitment to improving the lives of youngsters, drumming up money from businesses to build schools in remote areas. At 83, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and successfully underwent treatment. In May 2004, Mandela…
HARARE – Star FM DJ Munyaradzi Milimo, who is in remand prison over the alleged murder of Tinashe Magorimbo, is today expected to appear before a High Court judge for his bail application. Milimo, popularly known as DJ Munya filed his bail application papers last Friday. DJ Munya is jointly charged with Mohammed Matare and…
HARARE – Chris Eaton, the ex-FIFA head of security, says reports that he might have compromised Zimbabwe’s match-fixing investigation due to a “secret affair” with former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya are “baseless”. This comes as a raft of private communications between the ex-Australian policeman and a local scribe-turned-football administrator have emerged, and also alluding…
HARARE – After years of political dominance by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF, conditions are ripe for a grand coalition against this non-progressive force. But even, though, circumstances for this essential push are fertile — against a movement that has enjoyed electoral success by hook or crook — quite a number of unnerving developments and…
HARARE – It is clear that President Robert Mugabe now treats Sadc with utmost contempt. He chose to travel to Japan to attend the 5th Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development. And yet he has found some excuse for not attending a crucial Sadc meeting that was scheduled for Maputo last weekend. The Tokyo conference…
BULAWAYO – Playwright and political commentator Cont Mhlanga says the current dilly darling on the electoral process by Zanu PF is a clear indication that the former ruling party was scared to face MDC. Mhlanga who won as an independent councillor for Ward 15 in Lupane in the heavily contested 2008 harmonised elections says Zanu…
