HARARE – Government and Essar Africa Holdings have renegotiated an improved Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel) deal, providing for a complete overhaul of the company’s equipment that has been lying idle for years. The African unit of India’s Essar Group in November 2011 agreed to buy 54 percent in Ziscosteel in a deal worth…
HARARE – Police yesterday said they wanted the draconian Public Oder and Security Act (Posa) ratained on Zimbabwe’s statute books ostensibly because it helps them to maintain law and order. Assistant commissioner Takawira Nzombe told the parliamentary thematic committee on Human Rights that the police wanted to continue using Posa, which has been used to…
HARARE – A 22-year-old Midlands State University (MSU) student who has been missing since May 28 has been found dead in Gweru. According to sources at Senga police in Gweru, Tatenda Motsi took news of a terminal illness too hard. “He went for some tests at a local clinic and whatever he was told there,…
MUTARE – France is optimistic about resuming direct co-operation with Zimbabwe by year end, a top envoy has said. French Ambassador, Laurent Delahousse was speaking at the handover of a state-of-the-art automated weather station at Mutare’ Fire Brigade yesterday. Delahousse praised what he said were “positive signals” from President Robert Mugabe’s government since it came…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court yesterday deferred hearing an urgent chamber application lodged by Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Wadyajena seeking to stop the taxman from bankrupting his business. The matter was postponed to July 11. Wadyajena’s Mayor Logistics (Pvt) Limited, a company in the business of fuel and transport operations in Zimbabwe, has been sequestrated over…
HARARE – The State yesterday closed its case against incarcerated Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura on a fresh rape charge. Prosecutor Kudzai Chigwedere led evidence from three witnesses. The State’s last witness, Chido Chawanika, a Zimbabwe Republic Police victim friendly officer, confirmed that the complainant reported the matter to him on March…
HARARE – University of Zimbabwe student Romeo Tanyaradzwa Musemburi is being charged with attempting to commit an act of insurgency, banditry, sabotage or terrorism. The charges arose after he posted an article to babajukwa2013@gmail.com e-mail account. Musemburi, 20, of 113 Shortstone Waterfalls in Harare is a third-year student currently studying towards an honours degree in…
HARARE – Gideon Gono, who retired in December 2013, after a 10-year tenure as governor of the country’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, was at the forefront of the country’s fight to survive crippling economic sanctions, the most punitive ever imposed on any African country by Western governments and institutions. Meant as a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court has granted $ 5000 bail to Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi who was arrested on suspicion of being Baba Jukwa, a faceless facebook character claiming to be a disgruntled Zanu PF mole. Kudzayi will report to the police twice everyday as part of his stringent bail conditions.
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s largest union is going ahead with plans to picket the country’s main energy supplier. This is despite a court order barring it from undertaking strike action at the firm. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) went on strike on Tuesday to demand higher wages. Part of the demand…
