HARARE – The paltry cash allocated to the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Fund threatens the government drive to force foreign firms to give 51 percent of their shareholding to locals, a Zanu PF lawmaker has said. The National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Fund was allocated $2 249 000 by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in…
MASVINGO – Zanu PF youths yesterday disrupted a United States Embassy-organised youth meeting at the Civic Centre here protesting against sanctions imposed by Washington on Harare. President Barack Obama’s Washington Fellowship Young African Leaders Initiative meeting was called off just after an official from the Harare Embassy started explaining to local youths how they could…
HARARE – A Mutorashanga man has denied signing a marriage certificate produced in court by his wife. Cephas Muzoreva accused his wife, Elinate Mahengeni of acquiring a fraudulent Chapter 5:11 marriage certificate. This emerged after Muzoreva hauled Mahengeni before the Harare Civil Court seeking a protection order. He told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that Mahengeni assaults…
HARARE – A man reportedly sought refuge at a police station after being abused by his wife. Steven Kamba alleges that his wife, Sarah Runesu, verbally and physically abuses him and treats him like a child. Kamba hauled Runesu before the Harare Civil Court seeking a protection order against her. He told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami…
HARARE – A Highlands landlord reportedly sodomised his tenant’s eight-year-old son while recording the act. Martin Gorge Blair, 32, of Ridgeway South Highlands, appeared before Harare magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe charged with aggravated indecent assault and contravening sections of the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act. The matter was remanded to January 30 after the State applied…
HARARE – Only 10 percent of Zimbabweans are on medical insurance, a government official has said. Gatsi Gatsi, planning and donor coordination officer in the ministry of Health and Child Care, revealed this during a half day stakeholders seminar hosted by Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis and Research Unit (Ziparu) in Harare Wednesday. “We have so…
HARARE – China Africa Sunlight Energy (Pvt) Ltd has denied that its coal mining activities had caused animals to drift in large numbers into neighbouring Botswana from Gwayi Conservancy and Hwange National Park. There are more than five Chinese mining companies which were recently awarded special grants by government to conduct coal and methane gas…
HARARE – Funding Zimbabwe’s $4,1 billion 2014 National Budget will be a tough task as government’s revenue collections continue to shrink, analysts say. This comes as President Robert Mugabe’s administration — which failed to secure external budgetary support or bail out packages from international financiers like the International Monetary Fund — missed its 2013 revenue…
HARARE – Distressd Gulliver Consolidated Limited (Gulliver) seeks investors to help turn around its waning fortunes. The industrial and engineering group — delisted from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in July last year — was placed under provisional judicial management after failing to perform due to a debt burden and high administrative costs coupled with acute…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was handed a drubbing in the election of July 31 last year. Even if it might not have been defeated at the disputed poll itself, the MDC was totally outmanoeuvred by Zanu PF and its leader, President Robert Mugabe. The MDC “lost” an election it should never…
