HARARE – Zimbabwe’s platinum miners are seeking private investors’ partnership in building a refinery in the country. This comes as the platinum group metals (PGM) producers submitted proposals and working documents to government on the back of escalating pressure from the authorities and a threat to ban raw exports of the metal, if they don’t…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has moved to benchmark the country’s interest rates, which it said were distorted and hindering deposits and economic growth. Acting governor Charity Dhliwayo — expected to present the 2014 monetary policy today — said “the current interest rate structure in Zimbabwe is distorted as evidenced by the…
HARARE – Oppah Muchinguri, Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development minister, has denied ever dating the late music icon Simon ‘Chopper’ Chimbetu. She also refuted rumours that she was once involved in a cat fight with Grace Mugabe, the Zimbabwe first lady, over earrings. Speaking for the first time at a meeting organised by Women…
LONDON – Some of the “most vulnerable” Syrian refugees will be temporarily resettled in the UK, Deputy PM Nick Clegg says. He said girls and women who had been victims of or were at risk of sexual violence, torture victims, and elderly and disabled people would get priority. This meant the coalition was ensuring Britain’s…
HARARE – A board of inquiry commissioned by police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri has found that eight percent of commuter omnibuses are operated by police officers, and the police boss has reiterated his edict that no police officer should operate omnibuses. Paul Nyathi, the police spokesperson, said contrary to assertions by Cosmas Mbonjani, chairman of the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has ordered the Attorney General (AG) to allow Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Telecel) to prosecute ex-company chairperson Jane Mutasa through private proceedings, it emerged yesterday. This comes as the High Court had dismissed Zimbabwe’s second largest mobile phone operators’ bid to obtain permission to pursue the $1,7 million fraud against…
HARARE – Lawmakers yesterday demanded that former Premier Services Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube be prosecuted for misappropriation of clients’ funds. Dube and his PSMAS board chairperson Meisie Makeletso Namasasu were relieved of their duties on Monday by the company board. Ruth Labode, non-constituency MP and chairperson of the Health and…
HARARE – Our Political Editor Thelma Chikwanha (TC) talks to Elton Mangoma (EM), the MDC deputy treasurer. Find below excerpts from the interview. TC: Do you want to become the next president of the MDC because there have been allegations that you wrote this letter because you want to become president? EM: I know the…
MUTARE – A Mutare magistrate on Monday denied bail to two members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) accused of stealing 10kgs of diamond ore at Anjin Diamond Mine in Chiadzwa last week. Magistrate Noah Gwatidzo remanded in custody Victor Zindonda, a ZNA lieutenant aged 30 and accomplice Brighton Mazo, 26. They are jointly charged…
CHITUNGWIZA – The Chitungwiza housing saga took a new twist yesterday after it emerged that one of the members of the land audit team was involved in illegally parcelling out housing stands. This emerged at an explosive meeting in council chambers convened by the town clerk, which Zanu PF provincial chairperson for Harare Amos Midzi…
