HARARE – All is set for the 2014 edition of Chibuku Road to Fame, Zimbabwe’s biggest and most successful talent identification platform. This year Chibuku Road to Fame will kick start in Masvingo on June 7 and then move to the rest of Zimbabwe’s 10 provinces. “As usual, the finals of the Chibuku Road to…
HARARE – Znzorzi Adby, a local designer who showcased his designs for the first time at this year’s edition of Hifa, says he will be taking his collection on a nationwide tour. Adby unveiled the line, A Blue Blooded World, which he says is all about royalty and women looking and feeling good. He works…
HARARE – French cement maker Lafarge has appointed Amal Tantawi as new chief executive of its Zimbabwean unit. She succeeds Jonathan Shoniwa who was elevated to executive chairman late last year, following Muchadeyi Masunda’s departure. Prior to her appointment, with effect from March 1, Tantawi was at Lafarge Pakistan Cement Limited. The Lafarge group, awaiting…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has no funds to implement its five-year economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset), Industry minister Mike Bimha has said. He said the private sector should help finance projects under the plan, expected to guide Zimbabwe’s economic plans and objectives until 2018. Bimha said government was facing a policy…
HARARE – Companies are increasingly failing to remit employees’ pension contributions due to mounting economic challenges, accumulating arrears of up to $170 million, the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) said. The regulator, in its report on the state of the pensions industry in the quarter to March 2014, said rather than remit the pension dues,…
HARARE – Cash-strapped Zimbabweans should brace for an imminent fuel hike after government gazetted new pricing regulations. Statutory Instrument 80 of 2014, crafted by the Energy ministry in consultation with the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) is expected to drive fuel prices up, which in turn will have a domino effect on the pricing of…
HARARE – Sungura legend Alick Macheso’s maintenance case in which his estranged wife, Tafadzwa Fortunate Mapako, is demanding $7 000 in child and spousal support, failed to take off at the Harare Civil Court yesterday. Tafadzwa’s lawyer David Ngwerume asked for a postponement of the case to today, saying he received the summons late. He…
KIMBERLEY – Four witnesses in the trial of Core Mining and Minerals (Private) Limited (Core Mining) director Lovemore Kurotwi, accused of defrauding the government of $2 billion, have failed to identify the place that they visited for an inspection-in-loco here. Kurotwi was arrested together with Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC)’s ex-boss Dominic Mubaiwa. Four State…
CHITUNGWIZA – Government has acceded to housing demands by Zanu PF youths in Chitungwiza in a move that has caused an uproar among residents and councillors. The move has been castigated as partisan designed to rescue the waning political fortunes of those involved in the housing scandal. On Monday, hundreds of party youths wearing Zanu…
ISTANBUL – As a crowd milled around with downcast eyes outside a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday, a miner dashed their hopes that his co-workers still stuck inside would make it out alive. There are 200 of them trapped in the shaft about two-thirds of a mile — or 1 kilometer — underground,…
