HARARE – Beatrice Mtetwa, who is Core Mining director Lovemore Kurotwi’s lawyer, says the State is prejudicing and frustrating her client by delaying an inspection-in-loco in South Africa. The matter failed to proceed yesterday, following claims that South African authorities had not yet responded to the State’s request, pertaining to the visit. Chris Mutangadura, who…
HARARE – Cigarette maker Savanna Tobacco (Savanna) has secured vending licences for its hawkers from the Harare City Council, meaning the company has passed the test for its statutory instrument (SI) 264 of 2002 compliance measures. The development comes after a four-month stand-off between the company’s vendors, police and municipal authorities. Although Savanna came into…
BULAWAYO – European Union (EU) ban on local beef exports will remain effective, until a quality commission has certified the origins as well as traceability of the country’s beef to allay suspicions that Zimbabwe is slaughtering cattle from Botswana, an EU envoy has said. Speaking in Bulawayo this week, EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Aldo Dell’…
HARARE – From humble beginnings of rural life in Murehwa, to touring Europe as a teenager, and then becoming Zimbabwe’s first black rugby coach, Godwin Murambiwa is one man who believes he belongs to both worlds. Like many young black Zimbabweans of his generation, heading cattle and gathering wild fruit was his first preoccupation. This…
JOHANNESURG – Can anyone please help me trace Zimbabwean coaches Shepherd Murape and his former Dynamos centre back partner Sunday Chidzambwa. Journalists here are on my case to find the two. The last time I heard from the gangling Murape was a year and half ago. He had just returned from Namibia and was coaching…
HARARE – Due to public demand, our sister paper, the Daily News on Sunday, will republish the “O” Level best schools ranking. Do not miss your copy of the paper.
HARARE – CBZ Bank Limited (CBZ) has agreed on a settlement plan with Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s subsidiary Tuli Coal (Tuli) following plans to attach the latter’s property over an unspecified debt. The financial institution intended to auction — through Hammer and Tongues (HT) — Tuli’s land in the Colne Valley as part of…
HARARE – A High Court ruling that Interfin Securities (Private) Limited (Interfin) must return Remo Investment Brokers (Private) Limited (Remo)’s shares worth $3,3 million has presented Zimbabwean industry and market regulators players with a conundrum since the stockbroking firm is now defunct. This comes as the parties had been locked in a two-year long battle,…
HARARE – As the battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe rages on, Justice minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa used a Parliamentary question and answer session on Wednesday to douse Vice President Joice Mujuru’s gaffe in which she appeared to condone corruption. Mnangagwa, the Zanu PF legal affairs secretary long touted as a successor to the 89-year-old President,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has deployed soldiers to flood-hit Masvingo and other south-eastern districts to stop “rampant looting” of foodstuffs, and goodies that have been donated by the State, and other well-wishers, it emerged yesterday. The development comes in the wake of a disaster triggered by the bursting or fall of a portion of the Tokwe-Mukorsi…
