Zimbabwe’s exports to Zambia increased by 18,8 percent to $115,7 million in 2013 from $97,3 million prior year. However, trade facilitation body Zimtrade said the trade gap between the two countries widened to $146,4 million as Zimbabwe imported $262 million more from Zambia during the year. Zambia is Zimbabwe’s second-largest trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa…
EDITOR — After a lot has been said and written about President Robert Mugabe’s ill health, my mind is left with a big question, who on this earth does not get ill? Every human being gets sick at one point or the other in his/her life. What differs is the manner in which a person…
HARARE – Back at the end of the 1990s, I was approached in my office at the old Daily News in Trustee House in Harare by a newly-elected Member of Parliament. He was flanked on either side by bodyguards or henchmen or bouncers or enforcers — take your pick. They had “MENACE” written all over…
HARARE – The Harare International Carnival, which will reach a climax tomorrow with a colourful street party in the Zimbabwean capital city, needs serious investment and planning for it to become a genuine destination-marketing tool. While organisers of the carnival have to be lauded for putting together the event on a shoestring budget, the truth…
MASVINGO – Flood victims at Chingwizi Transit Camp have demanded to meet President Robert Mugabe to express disgruntlement over their appalling living conditions and government neglect. The 3 000 families from the flooded Tokwe-Mukorsi basin were relocated to Chingwizi Camp — about 150km away from where they lived — to a sugar cane farm and…
HARARE – Expelled MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti was yesterday ditched by the party’s Guardian Council which threw its weight behind Morgan Tsvangirai. Sekai Holland, whom Biti and his cohorts had claimed was their interim leader, chaired the meeting of the elders, effectively putting to rest speculation that she is part of the so-called Renewal Team….
HARARE – Harare residents have called for the immediate suspension of the town clerk Tendai Mahachi over the clandestine purchase of 50 cars worth $2 million using a $144,4 million loan facility secured from China. Combined Harare Residents Association (Chra) yesterday wrote to Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni to seek official clarification with regards to the…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo is known as the mainstream MDC stronghold judging by how the party trounced its opponents in last year’s election, scooping all the House of Assembly seats. With that in mind, one would have expected the party to be thriving at this moment of internal revolt but as it seems, the party’s provincial…
BULAWAYO – Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora is set on a collision course with teachers’ representatives riled by a recent directive for practising teachers without core subjects to sit for them within a stipulated time or lose their jobs. Teachers who failed Ordinary Level mathematics, science and English subjects have been asked to…
BULAWAYO – Warriors and Highlanders FC midfielder Peter “Rio” Moyo has been taken to court by his ex-wife Gracious Sibanda, 23, who is claiming $100 as maintenance for their nine-month-old child. The dreadlocked national team player, who was spotted at the courts on Wednesday morning, disappeared when magistrate Victor Mpofu called in the pair for…
