HARARE – Zimbabwe plans to promulgate a law that compels diamond miners to sell 10 percent of their gems to local cutting and polishing firms. The move is part of government’s aggressive beneficiation programme, under which it seeks to realise more value from its minerals, particularly diamonds and platinum. Currently, the country is exporting its…
HARARE – TA Holdings (TA) has suspended a $1,5 million refurbishment exercise for its hotel, as the group incurred a $ 5, 6 million loss in the year to December 2013. The investment group, which suffered the loss on the back of a $13,7 million impairment charge against its fertiliser making subsidiary Sable Chemicals, said…
HARARE – As expected, the MDC moved quickly yesterday to expel forthwith its secretary-general Tendai Biti and all the members of his faction who party leaders say had driven the 15-year-old opposition party to the brink when they mutinied over the weekend. Addressing a brief media conference at the MDC’s national headquarters in Harare, after…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has thrown its weight behind MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, saying rebels attempting to topple the charismatic opposition leader were out of order. The labour-backed MDC has been embroiled in a leadership row with a clique led by secretary-general Tendai Biti and former deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma…
HARARE – Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly contemplating another blitz on vendors selling cigarette sticks This comes after police and municipal authorities — in consultation with the ministry of Health — launched an operation from late last year to early 2014 to enforce compliance with statutory instrument (SI) 264 of 2002. While national police spokesperson Charity…
HARARE – A plane carrying President Robert Mugabe was forced to abort a planned landing in Harare yesterday due to heavy fog, landing instead in Bulawayo. “His aircraft was forced to land at Joshua Mqabuko,” State radio Spot FM reported. Mugabe, 90, was returning from the Vatican City where he had attended the canonisation of…
HARARE – Jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura has said the 26-year-old woman pressing fresh rape charges against him is his ex-concubine trying to settle scores with him, a magistrate heard yesterday. Gumbura, currently serving a 40-year jail term for five other rape counts, is jointly charged with his secretary Tendai Ganyani…
HARARE – The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Parirenyatwa, Zimbabwe’s biggest referral hospital, has been temporarily closed for maintenance work on ventilators. Ventilators support breathing of patients on life support systems. This development has forced those needing ventilators to seek services from Harare Central Hospital near Southerton or resort to private medical institutions which are…
MUTARE – Opposition members sympathetic to MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai forced open the MDC provincial offices here and seized a vehicle, two computers, an electric fan and party membership cards to stop the rival renewal team loyal to expelled secretary-general Tendai Biti from using the items. Three of the suspects who seized the property were…
HARARE – Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) graphic designer Lynn Mbofana was yesterday injured when she was hit by a kombi (minibus) whose driver was fleeing from baton-wielding police officers. The accident happened at the Cobacabana rank between Jason Moyo Avenue and Chinhoyi Street in Harare yesterday morning. ANZ publishes the Daily News and the…
