HARARE – Zimbabwe has so far earned over $1,3 billion from tobacco sales since the opening of the marketing season mid-February. Statistics released by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) indicate that tobacco exports surged to $719 million in November from the sale of 130 million kilogrammes (kg), compared to $712 million recorded in…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who has been shrugging off calls by his top lieutenants to step down, is receiving overwhelming support from the rank-and-file of the MDC during his ongoing meet-the-people meetings. With an escalating push for leadership renewal under way, the opposition leader had found himself in a tough spot. Still licking…
HARARE – A python measuring almost two metres was found coiling in a sitting room in the bustling town of Chitungwiza yesterday, creating a storm. Curious residents in Unit H pulled down the perimeter fence and almost brought the house down in a frenzied effort to kill the snake, which they linked to black magic….
HARARE – Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, has defended an insult law that outlaws mocking the President and communicating of falsehoods, claiming it is justifiable in a democratic society. Mnangagwa was responding to the Constitutional Court’s decision to have insult laws and communication of falsehoods declared unconstitutional. The court made the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday officially appointed Mariyawanda Nzuwah to head four constitutional commissions. In a statement issued by Misheck Sibanda, the chief secretary to the President and Cabinet, Nzuwah has been appointed chairperson of the Civil Service Commission, Police Service Commission, Defence Service Commission and Prisons and Correctional Service Commission. Nzuwah also becomes…
MUTARE – Road accidents and crime have gone up 10 and 6 percent respectively in Mutare from last year, a top police officer said here yesterday. Senior assistant commissioner Moses Magadi, the officer commanding Manicaland, was speaking at an annual awards ceremony where Chipinge police got top accolades for busting an eight-member cattle rustling racket,…
HARARE – “Politics is addictive,” says 58-year-old Joice Mujuru, and laughs loudly. She would know, as she has been on the frontline of Zimbabwe’s rough politics since she was a teenager when she ran away from home to fight minority white rule. “I never dreamed of being where I am now, today, not for one…
HARARE – A former police officer and director of Trinsec Security (Pvt) Limited has been hauled before the courts for reportedly extorting $82 000 from BancABC executives. Alex Mundiya, 34, of Manyame Park in Chitungwiza, lodged his bail application pending trial through his lawyer when he appeared before Harare Magistrate Donald Ndirowei yesterday. The lawyer…
HARARE – Kingstons Holdings ex-boss Brian Sedze, has accused a Harare magistrate and a prosecutor of bias and demanded that the two recuse themselves in his trial on 35 counts of fraud. In his application filed by his lawyer Tazorora Musarurwa, Sedze asked that Harare regional magistrate Simon Rogers Kachambwa and prosecutor Michael Reza recuse…
HARARE – Justice Mayor Wadyajena, the Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe Nembudziya has lavished praises on President Robert Mugabe describing him as a great leader. The businessman-cum-politician has already fitted much into his 32 years and was one of those who came forward to join Zanu PF candidates’ list in the last poll. …
