HARARE – “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” This quotation from 2 Timothy 4 verses 7 aptly describes the peaceful and democratic fight that the people of Zimbabwe have embarked upon to extricate themselves from the clutches of a deeply-entrenched dictatorship. On July 31, 2013…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s new government must prioritise agriculture if the country has hopes of reviving the economy, experts have said. Last year, the southern African country was forced to slash its economic growth forecast from 9,4 percent to 4,4 percent due to a massive slump in agriculture production. Elia Majoni, a senior Agri Business Consultant…
HARARE – United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly 20th session officially gets underway today in the resort town of Victoria Falls where Zimbabwe and Zambia are co-hosting the week-long event. This is the second time that Africa is hosting the event following the successful indaba hosted by Senegal in 2005. UNWTO General Assembly…
HARARE – South Africa-based miner DRDGold Limited (DRDGold) says it is in negotiations with potential buyers of its Zimbabwean assets. Niël Pretorius, the group’s chief executive, said the company — which had considered various options, such as partnerships and joint ventures or even the unbundling and development of a new mining firm — is disposing…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed financial services group FBC Holdings (FBCH) has acquired more than 2 000 hectares of prime land in Harare earmarked for the construction of residential properties. The group said it expects the move to ease housing shortages in the country, exacerbated by increasing rural-to-urban migration. According to the National Housing ministry,…
HARARE – Spiwe Kasumba has been looking after her disabled child, Munashe for the past 17 years with difficulty but filled with motherly love. For the first five years after Munashe’s birth, Kasamba used to take her to Harare Hospital every Friday for exercises. She described how she used to cry from sheer helplessness every…
HARARE – Fresh from his inauguration, President Robert Mugabe has been shattered by the death of three veteran freedom fighters in a week following the death yesterday of Zanu PF politburo member Kumbirai Kangai. Kangai, 75, a former Cabinet minister, died at his Glen Forest home yesterday morning. Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo confirmed the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s inauguration was graced by only six heads of States and also six former presidents, who have since passed the baton to a generation of younger leaders — yet Zimbabwe’s strongman plods on. Mugabe, at 89 becomes Africa’s oldest president and the second oldest in the world. However, when he swore…
HARARE – She might not always dress in high end fashion from top designers, but First Lady Grace Mugabe has her own unique style and always manages to be spot-on in her dressing. At her husband’s inauguration for another term in office on Thursday, Grace was dressed in a blue dress, with two different shades…
HARARE – For four years President Robert Mugabe and outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai shared tea together, cracked jokes and steered the economy from the edge of a precipice — but this has officially come to an inglorious end. On the one hand Mugabe is triumphant, basking in the glory of a poll win that…
