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Hwange mine workers down tools

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HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed coal producer Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCC)’s mine workers went on strike Monday over unpaid salaries. Jemister Chininga, the company’s acting managing director, yesterday confirmed that the employees, who claim they are owed five months’ salaries, had downed tools. “Yes we are experiencing demonstration problems at the site,”Chininga told businessdaily,…

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Ecobank on Zim expansion drive

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HARARE – Togo-Based Ecobank International plans to expand its footprint in Zimbabwe. The financial group, whose local unit Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited (EZL) already has 11 branches across the country, says it will open three more this year. “Ecobank aims to build a bank which not only provides total banking solutions to individual customers, but is…

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Zim must utilise EU-EPA: AfDB

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HARARE – The African Development Bank (AfDB) says Zimbabwe must utilise the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) it signed with the European Union (EU) to help boost exports and reduce a burgeoning trade deficit. In 2009, Zimbabwe, together with Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles signed an agreement with the EU — which came into force in…

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MDC maps way forward after disputed polls

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HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and top party officials spent yesterday locked in a secret retreat meeting as the opposition leader rallied his troops for a way forward after disputed polls won by President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF. Amid reports of deepening fissures in the ex-majority party caused by a poor showing in…

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UK, Canada boycott UNWTO

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VICTORIA FALLS – The United Kingdom and Canada have boycotted the United Nations World Tourism Organisation general assembly which opened in Victoria Falls on Monday, to protest gross human rights abuses and election rigging by President Robert Mugabe. Major UK airlines, including British Airways and Virgin were notably absent from the exhibition area, and so…

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Zanu PF officials in land row

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HARARE – Zanu PF officials in Mashonaland Central are fighting for a piece of land after double allocation of a farm by government ministers. Charles Dondo, a State security agent and Lovemore Dzipange are fighting for Lot 1 of Maryvale in Mazowe District after the latter allegedly demanded to occupy the farm. They have since…

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Mutambara withdraws leadership wrangle petition

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HARARE – Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara’s allies have withdrawn a Supreme Court appeal, which sought to nullify the party’s 2011 congress that saw Welshman Ncube elected president of the breakaway MDC formation. Jobert Mudzumwe, chairperson of an MDC faction headed by Mutambara, together with 12 others had asked the High Court to reverse…

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Byo outraged by Mugabe’s threats

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BULAWAYO – Bulawayo residents have angrily reacted to President Robert Mugabe’s speech where he disowned Bulawayo and Harare residents for not voting for him in the harmonised elections. In his speech during the burial ceremony of Mike Karakadzai at National Heroes Acre in Harare on Sunday, Mugabe said residents in the two big cities should…

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Wendall’s trial postponed

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HARARE – Harare magistrate Tayengwa Chibanda has postponed the trial of former Big Brother Africa reality TV show winner Wendall Parson, who is facing a $20 000 car insurance fraud. The case was postponed to September 9. Chibanda said he was not starting new trials and also noted that Parson’s defence counsel, Harrison Nkomo was…

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Komichi trial opens

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HARARE – Mainstream MDC chief elections officer Morgen Komichi yesterday accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of malpractice and playing to the whims of Zanu PF, as his trial opened at the Harare Magistrates’ Court. Komichi was arrested last month, charged with fraud and contravening the Electoral Act. This was after he presented to Zec…

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