CANBERRA – Australian political rivals Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have hit the campaign trail in a final push for votes ahead of Saturday’s election. Opinion polls place the opposition coalition, led by Mr Abbott, ahead of the ruling Labor party. But Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appealed to undecided voters, saying they could close the…
HARARE – When Netsayi Chigwendere left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom slightly over a decade ago to study television production , she had no idea she would return home as an afro folk musician. “I had gone to UK to do a Masters in film producing and ended up singing in bands with my friends,”…
HARARE – As a journalist and citizen of Zimbabwe it is natural that I watch the 8pm evening main news bulletins on the national broadcaster, ZBC TV. And for many Zimbabweans, it is also natural that they watch the ZBC TV main news bulletins because this is a state broadcaster through which government communicates policy…
HARARE – Realty firm Stream Walk Recreational Arcade (Stream Walk) plans to raise $140 million to finance construction of its Hilton Hotel in Harare (Hilton). The group, led by Harare businessman Farai Jere, is in partnership with international hotelier Hilton World Wide to build the multi-million dollar “mixed-use” property in the prime Eastlea area. Yesterday,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s tourist arrivals went up 12 percent to 859 995 in the half-year to June 2013 spurred by increase in transiting business visitors. In its latest report on the country’s hospitality and leisure sector, the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) said “ever increasing regional trade and commerce contributed immensely to this growth in arrivals,…
HARARE – Aim-listed Mwana Africa plc (Mwana) has sourced around $3,2 million through a share subscription to provide working capital. The funds, given the firm’s progress on cost cutting, should be enough to meet its working capital requirements for the “foreseeable future”, the miner said. The group’s largest shareholder China International Mining Group Corporation (CIMGC)…
HARARE – Zimbabwe music legend Oliver Mtukudzi, who is fresh from a two-and-half month tour of North America, will mark his return to his homeland with a show at Red Fox tonight. The show dubbed The Homecoming kumaRasta will also feature popular reggae star Mike “Mic Inity” Madamombe. Robert Zhuwao, co-director of Bothwell Investments, the…
HARARE – Justice Joseph Mafusire is to be commended for throwing out the $5 million defamation lawsuit that was recently filed in the High Court by Mudzi South legislator Jonathan Samukange against losing Zanu PF candidate Eric Navaya. Samukange had launched the court action alleging that Navaya had falsely, maliciously and repeatedly labelled him an…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC yesterday claimed that the recently released Sadc observer mission report declaring Zimbabwe’s poll largely credible was not a Sadc report but one emanating from the Tanzanian Foreign Affairs minister Bernard Membe. Tendai Biti, the MDC secretary-general, told a news conference at the MDC headquarters in Harare, that the Sadc observer…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Denford Chirindo has said the anti-graft body received several corruption complaints against former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo. Chirindo said this yesterday during cross examination in the trial of Zacc commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda, accused of contravening the Official Secrets Act and criminal abuse of office. Chimwanda, through his…
