BULAWAYO – Opposition Zapu party is willing to engage the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai provided both parties agree on terms and conditions of the re-engagement, the party’s alternate secretary-general, Strike Mkandla, has said. The party’s reaction comes in the wake of Tsvangirai’s call last weekend for opposition forces to forge a united front to…
HARARE – Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa is pinning hopes of fixing the liquidity crunch biting Zimbabwe on Africa Export and Import Bank (Afrexim Bank)’s $100 million interbank loan facility unveiled yesterday. Speaking at the launch at a Harare hotel yesterday, Chinamasa said the facility will unlock deposits held by banks by making loans available for…
BEIJING – A large piece of floating debris has been spotted in the remote Indian Ocean search zone for missing flight MH370, it was revealed yesterday. Chinese satellites picked up signs of a “suspicious” object measuring 22 metres by 30 metres in an area 100km west of where Australia reported an earlier sighting of floating…
HARARE – In years gone by, the chant of the tobacco auctioneer was music to farmers’ ears. That chant, however, had increasingly become discordant following the drop in tobacco quantity, quality and prices after the land grab in 2000. New farmers struggled to find their feet. From a peak of 237 million kg when the…
HARARE – Four young men sit on a rock with their eyes fixed on the dry plains of Chingwizi transit camp. Their hopes of a bright day quickly fade as reality hits them. Each day they rise to hopelessness. “We feel like we are in jail at this settlement,” said Tinashe Chinema, 30. “We cannot…
HARARE – Not so long ago, Africa’s coup plotters and autocrats felt confident they could get a pass from their fellow rulers elsewhere on the continent. In recent months, however, as military officers and authoritarian presidents from Guinea to Niger and Madagascar are discovering, Africa is saying “no” — and starting to mean it. In…
HARARE – Shocking details have emerged that medical aid societies are discriminating against the ageing population, with people reaching retirement age not allowed to join any of the societies’ medical aid schemes. This is in clear violation of the new Constitution which states in Section 82 (c) that the State must take reasonable legislative and…
HARARE – Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Francis Nhema began his term on a high note after giving indications that the “one size fits all” approach to indigenisation that his predecessor Saviour Kasukuwere had been implementing was disastrous. The appointment of the soft-spoken minister to the Indigenisation portfolio calmed the nerves of foreign investors…
HARARE – A motorist escaped uninjured yesterday morning when a train struck her Mercedes Benz ML vehicle at a rail-road crossing in Harare. The accident occurred shortly before 6am along Chiremba Road just close to OK Mart in Hillside suburb. The train hit the passenger’s side of the vehicle, with the dazed female driver Ruvheneko…
LAGOS – Nigerian celebrity preacher TB Joshua has directed Malaysian authorities and other institutions looking for the missing Malaysian plane to look “between Indonesia and the Indian Ocean.” According to him, authorities must go deep in the ocean and they will find scattered debris of the aircraft. Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International…
