HARARE – Independent End Time Message founder and pastor Robert Martin Gumbura has been convicted of four rape counts and one for contravening Censorship Act. Sentence to be delivered Monday.
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was yesterday left shell-shocked after the three MDC members who were released from remand prison on Wednesday recounted harrowing tales of the rigours of prison life at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. Last Maengahama, an MDC national executive member, Harare councillor, Tungamirai Madzokera and Yvonne Musarurwa, a member of the…
HARARE – Sungura star Alick Macheso will be presented with $1 200 and a Coca-Cola hamper at the Coca-Cola industrial complex this afternoon. The music star earned the prizes after his song Macharangwanda claimed top spot in the 2013 Radio Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Top 50. Macheso’s hit song which also topped the 2013 National FM’s Top…
HARARE – Pamela Samasuwo-Nyawiri, a Zimbabwean fashion accessory designer based in the United Kingdom, has been nominated for the prestigious Vogue and Muuse Talents Young Vision Accessories Award. The former journalist, who is among 180 selected from a pool of 10 000 applicants, is being considered for ‘The Best Emerging International Fashion Accessories Designer’. The…
HARARE – Zimbabwe plans to establish a commercial court to deal with rising corporate and white-collar crimes in the country. Acting Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Charity Dhliwayo, on Wednesday said commercial and banking related cases are taking long to be settled through the existing court system. “In order to expedite the settling of…
HARARE – The adoption of new currencies, including the Chinese Yuan, under the multi-currency regime will not ease the country’s acute liquidity crisis, economists say. In 2009, Zimbabwe abandoned its worthless currency and assumed the multi-currency system — dominated by the United States dollar and South African Rand — in a bid to curb hyperinflation,…
HARARE – Some brilliant defiant scribe crusaders I knew in Zimbabwe and Zambia included Willie Dzawanda Musarurwa, Kelvin Mlenga and Farayi Munyuki. They all died relatively young. Not all were necessarily toppled by their defiance of a system built on acquiescence to orders from above. But it would be amazing if their demise did not…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s move to extend the $100 million minimum capital requirements deadline for banks to 2020 is a good development in light of the prevailing liquidity challenges obtaining in the country. The introduction of the $100 million capital requirement in 2012 was a noble idea by the central bank not…
HARARE – Zimbabwe international and How Mine striker Simba Sithole has joined Ajax Cape Town, the South African Absa Premiership side confirmed Friday. Sithole starred for the Warriors at the ongoing African Nations Championship (Chan) in South Africa where Zimbabwe were knocked out of the semi-finals by Libya on Wednesday. “Ajax Cape Town is proud…
HARARE – Government was this week expected to sign a commercial agreement with Mining, Oils and Gas Services (MOGS) over the construction of a $1 billion fuel pipeline, and the lease of current assets, in a move that has created schisms in President Robert Mugabe’s administration. The development comes amid rising concern about the possible…
