HARARE – Tendai Biti has suffered another blow to his campaign, with a poor turnout on Saturday at a Manicaland rally confirming the scant support suggested by his rival Morgan Tsvangirai. But the Biti camp insisted that Saturday’s meeting was an internal consultation with structures not a rally. However, pictures released to the Daily News,…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said President Robert Mugabe should throw in the towel because he has failed to revive the economy. Addressing a bumper crowd in Epworth in Harare, the former premier said he will not waste time on expelled secretary-general Tendai Biti but 90-year-old Mugabe, who he said had vandalised the…
HARARE – International Labour Organisation (ILO) assistant director general and newly-appointed Africa director — Aeneas Chapinga Chuma — was on his first official visit to Zimbabwe where he met the leadership, government and development partners. Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki held an interview with him and below are the excerpts. Q: What are your immediate…
BULAWAYO – The mainstream MDC Bulawayo provincial executive has beefed up security at its provincial offices as the property and assets wrangle between the two feuding factions escalates. This comes after officials sympathetic to the MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai last week force-opened the MDC Mutare provincial offices and seized a vehicle and other property. Ever…
HARARE – Zanu PF legislator for Mhondoro Ngezi, Mike Gava, is appearing in court today for further remand on charges of discharging a firearm in public and kidnapping. He was released by Kadoma magistrate Farai Gwitima on a $2 000 bail. The state alleges that Gava ran amok at Kadoma Hotel and Conference Centre two…
PRETORIA – South African athlete Oscar Pistorius “was broken” after shooting his girlfriend, his neighbour has said, as the murder trial resumed after a two-week break. Johan Stander was the first person the athlete called after shooting Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year. The South African Olympic sprinter denies intentionally killing her. He says…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest financial institution by assets CBZ Bank (CBZ) says its year-on-year deposits went up 36 percent to $1, 4 billion as at March 31, 2014 from $1 billion last year. CBZ Holdings — the bank’s parent — newly appointed chief executive Never Nyamudzo said CBZ recorded the growth despite increased cost ofdoing…
HARARE – It is unacceptable that a peaceful march by journalists to mark World Press Freedom Day was blockaded by baton stick-wielding armed riot police yesterday, who imposed a ban on the gathering, after okaying the march earlier. The demonstration was called to mark World Press Freedom Day as proclaimed by the UN General Assembly…
BULAWAYO – Highlanders returned to the summit of the Castle Premiership log in style with an emphatic 4-0 victory over CAPS United here yesterday. The Bulawayo giants scored twice in each half through Rahman Kutsanzira, Ozias Zibande, Kuda Mahachi and Cleopas Dube to recapture the top spot with 12 points to their credit. Highlanders coach…
HARARE – Dynamos yesterday paid the price for wastefulness prompting coach Callisto Pasuwa to rue his blunt strikeforce again after watching his side lose 1-0 to Buffaloes. Roy Mwenga scored the only goal to hand DeMbare’s second consecutive defeat. On Thursday Dynamos also suffered a 1-0 loss to league returnees Chapungu. The goal was Buffaloes’s…
