LONDON – David Frost, the veteran television host, author and producer, has died at the age of 74 following a heart attack. The only person to have interviewed the last seven presidents of the US and the last six prime ministers of the UK, Frost had been with Al Jazeera English since its launch in…
HARARE – Meat processors know exactly what Zimbabweans are serving for dinner. And increasingly, steak is dropping off the menu. Coming from a low base in the hyperinflationary period that peaked in 2008, shoppers and restaurants are turning away from pricey beef and opting for chicken instead. The prospects for the country’s poultry industry look…
HARARE – Vivek Solanki, a Harare businessman, has fingered the Attorney General’s office in the Trauma Centre saga, accusing officers of receiving a $150 000 bribe. Solanki proffered the information while giving evidence in a $10 million fraud case involving Peter Annesley, Paul Stevenson and Mavis Mushonga. The trio is accused of illegally taking over…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday claimed the late nationalist Hebert Chitepo was assassinated by Rhodesian colonialists. Chitepo, who was the Zanu PF chairman, was killed by a car bomb placed in his Volkswagen Beetle in Zambia in 1975. A report produced by a commission of inquiry into Chitepo’s death has never been made public…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has warned hospitals against detaining patients who would have failed to settle their medical bills. Mugabe told mourners at the burial of former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF politburo member Kumbirai Kangai, that he was worried with the arm-twisting tactics by government hospitals to force patients to pay up. “We…
HARARE – Most Zimbabwean sex workers are not seeking medical treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Aid workers also say only one in three female sex workers receive adequate HIV prevention and government was not doing much to help with the prevention and elimination of the pandemic. Most of the sex workers are pushed into the…
HARARE – Outgoing Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda has pledged his full support for mayoral candidate Obert Gutu. Masunda said he will ensure smooth transition and would be available whenever the new council needs help on how best to run Zimbabwe’s capital. “I would like to offer my heartiest congratulations to my learned friend, Obert Chaurura…
MUTARE – With US coins scarce, trade in South African coins is proving to be brisk business for locals. And Mutare’s vendors are the city’s unlikely but most aggressive Rand coin dealers — twisting local business maths. A US dollar note has been trading constant to eight Rand on the black market for years now…
MUTARE – Samuel Tsau is a man with a taste for little vintage cars. And he is making a show of it. Displaying part of his 18-car strong fleet of Morris’ and Mini Coopers at a public bus termini in Dangamvura in Mutare, he has set the agenda on antique cars for passers-by. “I also…
HARARE – “It is an issue of survival not conservation sisi, tikarega kuita izvozvi toita sei? (If we do not do this what else can we do?” Fungai Chikwara said removing wires from burnt tyres. Air pollution has become one of Harare’s growing concerns. But unemployment is forcing some enterprising youths into fencing wire making…
