HARARE – Zimbabwe is exploring for new mineral deposits as the hard pressed government seeks to raise cash from the country’s vast resources. Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa said the new deposits will be used for securitisation of national loans and credits. Among its extensive minerals base, the southern African nation has the second largest known…
HARARE – The World Bank has warned Zimbabwe to stick to austerity measures and abandon a luxurious spending lifestyle if the country’s economy is to recover. The nation’s economy is showing signs of strain, sliding into deflation with unemployment levels rising. World Bank’s Zimbabwe-based economist Nadia Piffaretti on Tuesday told a Sapes Trust conference in…
HARARE – Fashion designer Tarisai Gweje has drawn inspiration from a very unlikely source-the Salarygate Scandals. Most Zimbabweans, who are struggling to make ends meet in an economy that is grinding to a halt, were horrified when details of astronomical salaries paid to certain corporate leaders in Zimbabwe were divulged in the press a few…
HARARE – Most Zimbabweans will most likely assume that anyone christened Tendayi has a lineage that can be traced to this country but an American artiste called Tendayi Kuumba proves the fallacy of such thinking. Tendayi, a dancer and singer who was born in Washington 25 years ago, has no Zimbabwean heritage at all. She…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has taken an early lead in the general election, partial results show. With nearly 50% of votes counted, the ANC had 62% of the vote followed by the Democratic Alliance at 24%. The ANC is widely expected to return to power although analysts say anything less…
HARARE – Let us be very candid, Zanu PF is unwittingly doing their very best to prop up Morgan Tsvangirai’s fortunes by continuing to attack him ceaselessly and viciously at a time that he has probably been at his weakest politically in the past 15 years. The party of liberation appears to have forgotten its…
HARARE – The opposition coalition being mooted by expelled MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti is doomed to fail, analysts say. Biti hopes to challenge the two dominant political parties, President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF and Morgan Tsvangirai’s MD. Founded during a series of recent meetings with other opposition parties and with cautious support from Western donors,…
HARARE – Privately-owned radio station Voice of the People (VOP) broadcasting into Zimbabwe was doing so legally according to Dutch law, the Netherlands envoy said yesterday. Gera Snelle, Netherlands Ambassador to Zimbabwe, told journalists yesterday after paying a courtesy call on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo, who has said VOP was not…
HARARE – A government meeting on Tuesday resolved to overturn a police ban on a World Press Freedom Day march, with Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi saying the scribes were now free to stage the commemorations. The ban of the march, which had earlier been cleared by the police, drew the ire of media stakeholders,…
HARARE – Members of the public were yesterday left frothing with anger after a public hearing on the Electoral Amendment Bill in Harare was abandoned after legislators walked out without apology. Jessie Majome, the chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, struggled to calm the irate citizens who felt that…
