HARARE – KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) plans to suspend its Amsterdam to Harare and Lusaka flights, less than two years after resuming flights into Zimbabwe. The airline, which had suspended flying into Zimbabwe for 13 years, advised that it will discontinue the flights on October 28, 2014. It began servicing the Lusaka route on…
HARARE – Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday promoted Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services boss commissioner Paradzai Zimondi to commissioner-general, as required by the new Constitution. Consequently, Zimondi’s three deputies Fadzai Mupure, Rhodes Moyo and Aggrey Machingauta, were conferred with the deputy commissioner-general titles at the Prisons Mess in Harare. Mnangagwa said the rebranding of the…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has temporarily suspended stringent bail conditions which were imposed on Genius Kadungure, a Harare businessman who is facing R1,5 million fraud charges. Kadungure, famed for holding glitzy all-white parties, was reporting at CID Serious Fraud Squad every Monday to Friday and had surrendered his passport. Through his lawyer Tafadzwa Hungwe,…
LONDON – The UK government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on public roads from January next year. It also invited cities to compete to host one of three trials of the tech, which would start at the same time. In addition, ministers ordered a review of the UK’s road regulations to provide…
WASHINGTON – The US economy grew at an annual rate of 4% during the April to June period, latest figures released by the US Department of Commerce have shown. Consumer spending – which makes up over two-thirds of US economy activity – grew by a robust 2.5%. Business spending increased by 14% in the world’s…
MOGADISHU – Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say. Ruqiya Farah Yarow was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of Hosingow by gunmen belonging to the al-Shabab group, they say. The militants had ordered her to put on a veil,…
HARARE – A year after last year’s July polls, government has no positive message to communicate to the electorate about why we still hang on to vestiges of a constitution foisted on us decades ago. Over time, the Lancaster House constitution has been amended on numerous occasions in an attempt to re-engineer it to suit…
HARARE – When the Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba said that white farmers never used to be charged for electricity usage, I was tempted to go and ask Zesa Holdings (Zesa) to reimburse me for all the electricity I used and paid for while on my farm purchased legally in 1990 but forcibly seized in…
HARARE -Tourism minister Walter Mzembi says Zimbabwe must value property rights to ensure that the country attracts more tourists. Zimbabwe’s tourism sector hit an all-time low in the decade ending 2008 following diplomatic rows with Western countries, resulting in travel warnings being issued against visiting the southern African country. But thawing relations — following the…
HARARE – Government is wary of setting a cotton producer price due to a lack of funds to purchase the commodity, Agriculture minister Joseph Made said. “We must be careful when we set the price as government. We may not have the funds to buy, he told Parliament last week. He added that government was…
