HARARE – Zimbabwe’s gold production slumped 8,64 percent in June 2013 as the sector remains under pressure from falling price of the yellow metal. Gold prices plummeted to $1, 198 per ounce as at June 7, the lowest since April 2013. Figures released by the African Development Bank (AfDB) show that the country’s month-on-month total…
HARARE – Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Limited (Lafarge) says its domestic cement volumes tumbled eight percent to 160 kilo tonnes in the half year to June 2013 due to the depressed construction activity. This comes as building materials manufacturers, which traditionally thrive when the country is experiencing economic growth, have been severely hit by an acute…
EDITOR — Recently, President Robert Mugabe made shocking utterances to the effect that residents from Harare and Bulawayo should go and demand better services from the ones they voted for (MDC). Now that residents, especially in Harare, are experiencing even worse service delivery as evidenced by total lack of clean safe water and the virtual…
EDITOR — The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) would like to inform all students, members of the press, civic society partners and the general public that it will be holding its ninth bi-annual congress from October 25 to 27, 2013. The Zinasu president Pride Mkono has proclaimed dates for the congress in compliance with section…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s 8th Parliament will set off with the swearing in of new members of both the National Assembly and Senators tomorrow. This is a key moment for Zimbabwe which had gained considerable strides in the democratisation agenda which showed a vibrant multi-party democracy system. Days of one-party State, a leaf borrowed from the…
HARARE – Four-and-half-years — ruled by an uneasy coalition that saw advances in human rights — are gone and on the horizon is a dark cloud, rights campaigners say. Threats by President Robert Mugabe to punish urban voters are beginning to manifest, with residents of Harare and Chitungwiza going for weeks without water. A basic…
HARARE – Most Zimbabwean artists are making it both locally and internationally. Their fame centres mainly on the type of art that they do. Such kind of prominence should be maintained by at least planning for future eventualities such as sickness and death. It should be said from the onset that issues of health, investment,…
PRETORIA – Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital, the presidency said yesterday. ”Former president Nelson Mandela has this morning, September 1, 2013, been discharged from the Pretoria hospital where he has been receiving treatment,” said Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj in a statement. He said Mandela’s condition remained critical and “at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s new Parliament will be sworn in tomorrow, with the largest Zanu PF contingent in the nation’s history, sending a message that President Robert Mugabe’s three decades of iron-fisted rule remain unchallenged. Newly-elected lawmakers will come to the Parliament building for the oath-taking ceremony amid tight security and escalating worry over possible post-election…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) president Cuthbert Dube has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Real Soccer Magazine (RSM) editor Shepherd Mandizvidza. Dube, who is also Premier Services Medical Aid Society group chief executive officer, said Mandizvidza defamed him by writing several damaging stories since he was elected to head Zifa in March…
