HARARE – Zimbabwean authorities should seriously engage their South African counterparts to plug gold leakages estimated to be between 100 kg and 300 kg, legislator Paradzai Chakona told Parliament. This comes as gold leakages have largely been a result of low monitoring and accountability coupled with high taxes. “The level of smuggling is commensurate with…
HARARE – Samsung Electronics (Samsung) has entered into partnership with Line Products and Services (LPS), confirming the local firm as an official distributor for the global technology company’s products in the country. The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding last week. To kick start their partnership, LPS is set to hold an exhibition for…
HARARE – Didymus Mutasa, the Zanu PF secretary for administration, has emerged as a kingmaker in the ruling party as his word seems to have become the law in the 50-year-old liberation movement. Before Zanu PF’s extraordinary politburo meeting held last Saturday, there was discord in the party, with rival factions contradicting each other on…
HARARE – Government must guarantee all human rights enshrined in the new Constitution, Amnesty International said in a Human Rights Agenda issued as President Robert Mugabe approaches the 100th day of his new term. In the report, Human Rights Agenda for the New Government — 2013 to 2018, the organisation urges the Zimbabwean government to…
HARARE – Another step was made on the bumpy road to the full realisation of a new Zimbabwe with President Robert Mugabe approaching the 100th day of his new term. Amnesty International said in a fresh report, titled Human Rights Agenda for the new Government — 2013 to 2018, that the new Constitution offers a…
HARARE – Four months after the disputed election, the country is engulfed in a legitimacy crisis and a crisis of expectation as Zanu PF dismally fails to inspire and poise the nation for growth while the economy is sending disappointing signals that point to an early return to the unmitigated disaster of 2008. The MDC…
HARARE – In recent weeks, we have seen apparent jostling for power between rival camps in Zanu PF. It seems some senior figures in the party are angling to replace President Robert Mugabe after his expected departure. Information minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday played down the endorsement of the disputed provincial polls by the Zanu PF…
EDITOR — It is my sincere hope that this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence will go a long way in curbing this vice that is threatening our society especially the family structure. Men being the heads of families are expected to provide, care for and protect their families in turn the wife…
EDITOR — This letter goes to Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) and its leader Archbishop Johannes Ndanga. I would like to applaud you for banning Robert Gumbura’s church Independent End Time Message. I read the article on Friday November 22 in the Daily News with the headline Church banned over ‘Satanism’ and I must…
EDITOR — Congratulations to Dynamos for winning the Castle Premiership title for the 20th time. You have made us so proud and I am so pleased to be associated with you. At a time when all hope was lost you defied all odds and proved our enemies wrong. We started the final day in second…
