HARARE – The much-hyped maize import deal between South Africa and Zimbabwe might be threatened by estimates that the neighbouring country’s harvest could be insufficient to meet its national demands. According to South Africa’s Department of Agriculture Crop Estimates Committee figures, the country’s maize harvest last year declined by 20 percent from prior year, the…
HARARE – A traditional leader has blamed parents for failing to enforce a decent dress code for female children, alleging this could be fuelling rape cases. Chief Enos Pfungwa Musarurwa, from Mashonaland East, said the dressing of many girls was increasing their vulnerability to rapists as parents forgo proper parental guidance in a bid to…
BULAWAYO – An 18-year-old New Lobengula teenager has been remanded in custody for stabbing and robbing a Form 3 student of his spectacles and cap. It is the State’s case that Daniel Moyo, on December 7 at around 6pm Newman Ncube, 16 of Pumula South, was coming from Amphitheatre in company of his two friends….
HARARE – A ZBC TV presenter who died after giving birth was buried on Saturday in Mvurwi. Family sources said Tendai Chitsinde, 24, would have survived the birth on Wednesday last week if the blood she lost had been replaced. She died from a heart attack triggered by the “massive” blood loss. Her child also…
HARARE – Walter Musona, one of the country’s brightest football prospects, has joined FC Platinum from the Aces Youth Academy on a two-year deal. Musona, who is the young brother of Zimbabwe kingpin Knowledge Musona, spent the last six months of the 2013 season on loan at relegated Motor Action. The Zimbabwe youth international had…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has named a 30-man provisional squad for March’s ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh, although uncertainty remains over the players’ availability. The country’s cricketers late last year went on strike in protest over unpaid dues, and have vowed to continue the industrial action if ZC fails to pay them before the…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s family members are set to approach their in-laws in a frantic bid to save the marriage of the former premier to his estranged wife Elizabeth Macheka. A family representative, Casper Tsvangirai, brother to the former Prime Minister, spoke out for the first time yesterday on the separation between Morgan and Elizabeth…
HARARE – Zimbabwean teachers have threatened to go on a nationwide strike as soon as schools open if their demand for a basic pay of $1 000 is not met. Teachers’ unions have been threatening to pursue industrial action over low salaries, after government proposed an inflation-adjusted salary increment in 2014. The boycott, which could…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has savaged President Robert Mugabe for going on holiday at a time the country is faced with a serious economic crisis and a pressing challenge to align all laws with the new Constitution. The Zimbabwe president left for the Far East on a scheduled holiday trip last Saturday, a local…
HARARE – It is the same old tasteless wine in new bottles. Like the rest of the world, Zimbabweans stood on the threshold of a brand new year, but unlike most, with a horrendous sense of forbiddance, too scared to peep into a sobering grim future. After hopping from one crisis to another, clinging on…
