HARARE – The European Investment Bank (EIB) says Zimbabwe will not be given preferential treatment on the repayment of its $300 million loan. Deiderick Zambon, EIB’s division chief for southern Africa and Indian Ocean, said Zimbabwe will be treated like any other country. “We are a commercial bank and we don’t have a prerogative to…
HARARE – Power development minister Dzikamai Mavhaire has appointed new boards for parastatatals in the electricity and energy sector, with former Finance minister Herbert Murerwa nominated as Zesa Holdings (Zesa) chairman. The board appointments are for Kariba Hydro Power Company (KHPC), Zesa, Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company (ZETDC), Powertel, Zesa Enterprises…
MUTARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s provincial executive yesterday co-opted at least nine party members to fill a vacuum left by a group that broke away to the former secretary general Tendai Biti’s renewal team. Irimai Mkwashi, Naison Nemadziya, David Chimhini, Sangani Mubatanhema, Ngaaite Zimunya, Willard Chimbetete, Trevor Saruwaka and Patrick Chitaka have been nominated by the…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe says men who rape young girls should be beheaded because they have no place in a normal society. She advised sex-starved men to hire prostitutes instead of forcing themselves on young girls. Mugabe was speaking at the World Blood Donation Day in Chinhoyi yesterday. Running under the theme “Safe…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has signed into law the Financial Adjustments Bill 2014 and the Trafficking in Persons Bill. In a general notice 250 of 2014 published in the Government Gazette Friday, the president assented to the Financial Adjustment Act 2014, which condones government’s unauthorised expenditure of $400 million for the year 2013. If…
KADOMA – A sick man staggers, walking with difficulty aided by a stick as he labours to get to the hospital’s water tap within his ward. He is thirsty and writhing in pain. As he finally reaches the water tap, his mouth is so dry that his thirst for a drink overwhelms everything, even his…
HARARE – Controversial pole dancer Beverly ‘‘Bev’’ Sibanda (pictured) believes the police are always after her because she is in a money-spinning business. “Where ever there is money, there is the police. Where ever there is the police, there is money,” Bev said during a Star FM Radio interview last week. Last week, she was…
HARARE – A mere six months after the controversial emergence of former MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti’s renewal team, the faction is already disintegrating, amid further revelations that donor funds to the rebels are also drying up fast. A top renewal team member who spoke to the Daily News yesterday in an exclusive interview said a…
BULAWAYO – Gorden Moyo, the MDC Bulawayo provincial chairperson, has quit his party position insisting that he was not prepared to work under conditions where people in the same party fight against each other. Moyo, whose lack of visibility since he took a sabbatical has been subject to swirling speculation that he was prevaricating in…
HARARE – Human rights lawyers are dragging the minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development Ignatius Chombo to court next week to stop the Chitungwiza demolitions after expiry of a seven-day ultimatum. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) made the ultimatum in a June 10, 2014 letter to Chombo, indicating that failure to…
