HARARE – Two Chinhoyi supermarkets recorded brisk business selling bread after Bakers Inn brand ambassador Alick Macheso, made surprise courtesy calls on Thursday. After learning that they stood to get an extra loaf and an autograph from the sungura star, many Chinhoyi residents thronged OK and TM supermarkets where they hoped to interact with the…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa has warned against complacency ahead of tomorrow’s clash with Shabanie Mine in the BancABC Sup8r Cup semifinal clash at Barbourfields Stadium tomorrow. Pasuwa conceded yesterday that Shabanie have the pedigree to derail the Glamour Boys’ chances of lifting the country’s richest competition for the second time in its five-year…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday took a swipe at unproductive new farmers, whom he alleged were using outdated farming techniques. Officially opening the Harare Agricultural Show, Mugabe slammed resettled farmers for using Stone Age farming techniques. “Tinoda machengeterwo emombe akasiyana neaiitwa nanasekuru vedu (We want to rear cattle in a different way from what…
HARARE – Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) yesterday suspended the editor of NewsDay, Constantine Chimakure, after the daily published two articles that the newspaper itself admitted suffered “ethical infractions”. Chimakure was suspended over two stories carried in the paper on Wednesday and Thursday titled “Mbeki speaks on Zim polls, chaotic land reform”, and “Mugabe offers Tsvangirai…
PRETORIA – August 29, 2013 —The office of former president Thabo Mbeki has noted a report in Thursday’s edition of Zimbabwe’s newspaper, NewsDay, which attributes certain statements about Zimbabwe to the former president. It alleges that when he addressed a seminar at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (Tmali) at the University of South Africa…
HARARE – British American Tobacco has been certified as a top employer in southern Africa by the Top Employers Institute. Based on independent research, the Top Employers Institute said British American Tobacco offers its employees outstanding working conditions and looks after its staff exceptionally well. The world’s most international tobacco group with a presence in…
HARARE – MDC chief election officer, Morgen Komichi, yesterday appeared in court in handcuffs and leg irons. Zimbabwean prison officers led Komichi into court wearing chains and prison garb. Komichi stood silently in the dock at the Harare Magistrates’ Court. The magistrate accepted a request from defence lawyer Alec Muchadehama for Komichi to be unshackled….
HARARE – Former Chitungwiza town clerk Godfrey Tanyanyiwa shall learn his fate on September 5 in a case in which he is facing 52 counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. Magistrate Hosea Mujaya said that he would hand Tanyanyiwa’s verdict next Thursday after the defence closed its case. According to prosecutor…
HARARE – A Kuwadzana man who stalked and accused his wife of infidelity has been dragged to court. Ernest Makuruma was hauled before the Harare Civil Court by his wife Betty Karema who sought a protection order against alleged physical and verbal abuse. Karema told the court her husband could not accept their separation and…
HARARE – Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) yesterday suspended the editor of NewsDay, Constantine Chimakure, after the daily published two articles that the newspaper itself admitted suffered “ethical infractions”. Chimakure was suspended over two stories carried in the paper on Wednesday and Thursday titled “Mbeki speaks on Zim polls, chaotic land reform”, and “Mugabe offers Tsvangirai…
