HARARE – Political analysts have condemned veteran female politicians who seized reserved safe seats at the expense of grassroots women. MDC’s vice president Thokozani Khupe, seasoned members of parliament like Zanu PF Women’s League secretary Oppah Muchinguri, MDC founding MP for Mutasa Evelyn Masaiti, Zanu PF politburo member Abigail Damasane and Zanu PF Youth League…
HARARE – Malawi president Joyce Banda has hailed the integration of women into important positions of political power, hailing Zimbabwe for electing Joice Mujuru to be vice president. In an address to the 33rd summit of southern African leaders in Lilongwe on Saturday, the newly-elected Southern African Development Community (Sadc) chairperson made special mention of…
HARARE – Cars have always been a status symbol in Zimbabwe. The past five years under the coalition government has experienced an unprecedented boom in car imports. During the colonial days, very few Africans owned cars. And among the minority were business people, headmasters, teachers, nurses, medical orderlies and some clerks. Because of poor salaries…
KADOMA – Young girls have been lured to this gold-mining outpost by false promises of spin-off from the mining sector, entering prostitution and fuelling a roaring trade. Prostitution is slowly gaining a foothold in the city, thanks to hotel-owners who have turned cottages into brothels amid lukewarm police action that is only helping such immoral…
KADOMA – A woman here allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old girl before assaulting her saying she was having an affair with her husband. She appeared before a Kadoma magistrate on Friday. Charity Mashinya, 22, allegedly teamed up with Primrose Masawi, 17, and Sharmen Muzenda, 16, went to the girl’s house where they accused her of having…
HARARE – Our sister paper, the Daily News on Sunday, yesterday carried a story headlined, I am ready to take over — Mujuru in which respected vice-president Joice Mujuru spoke from her heart in an interview with the newspaper. Due to the nature and complex matrix of Zanu PF politics, the story was bound to…
HARARE – One aspect of priority to the incoming Zanu PF-led government is to abandon its erstwhile egotistical diplomacy and look into ways of diplomatic realignment. In as much as President Robert Mugabe’s children, Bona, Robert Junior and Chatunga should not ideally suffer for the purported sins of omission and commission of their parents, Zimbabweans…
HARARE – Toronto Stock Exchange-listed New Dawn Mining Corporation (New Dawn) is considering disposing of two of its five mines in Zimbabwe as part of efforts to raise additional capital. This comes as the Zimbabwe-focused gold miner’s operations have been hit by falling international gold prices, increased mining royalties and pressure to cede 51 percent…
HARARE – The dust has settled, well, sort of, on the recently concluded 2013 harmonised election. Besides the contestations around election results, with Sadc and the AU endorsing the poll, reality is beginning to sink in even into the most hard-wired MDC supporters. The nightmare is slowly turning into reality and hopefully despair will also…
HARARE – Zimbabwe national football team coach Ian Gorowa admitted his side now faces an uphill task to qualify for the 2014 African Nations Championship (Chan) after Sunday’s 0-0 draw with Zambia at Rufaro Stadium. The Warriors put up a comatose performance in front of their own home crowd and now have to get…
