HARARE – Africa-focussed resources group, Mwana Africa plc (Mwana) says the resumption of smelting at its Zimbabwe unit Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) will assist in creating employment in the troubled southern African country. Stuart Morris, the Mwana interim chairman said Zimbabwe was aware of the need to foster mining and investment, at the same time…
HARARE – Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited (Atlas Mara) says the completion conditions for the voluntary public offer of Atlas Mara Beteiligungs AG for African Development Corporation (ADC) have been satisfied. The deal now awaits regulatory approval and the “settlement will take place in accordance with the terms and conditions of the offer document”. A total…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has written to Sadc demanding fresh elections, claiming that last year’s polls were rigged by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. In a damning letter to the Troika Organ on Politics, Defence and Security of the 15-member Southern African Development Community (Sadc), Tsvangirai said a compromise to produce a government…
HARARE – The trial of two ex-Air Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Air Zimbabwe) bosses accused of acting inconsistently with their duties has begun at the Harare Magistrates’ Court. Peter Samanga Chikumba, Air Zimbabwe’s former acting chief executive officer and Grace Nyaradzai Pfumbidzayi, who is the airline’s former legal manager and company secretary, pleaded not guilty. Charges…
FIGTREE – Farm workers evicted here by deputy chief secretary in the office of the President and Cabinet Ray Ndhlukula have been left stranded. Dartnelly Farm, lying about 45km south west of Bulawayo, was invaded on August 1. The farm grows cabbages, tomatoes and rears cattleg. Ndhlukula grabbed the farm from white commercial farmer David Connolly….
HARARE – Police yesterday clashed with MDC youths in Harare, battering the demonstrating opposition supporters who were demanding jobs. Six MDC youth activists were seriously injured and others were arrested as police violently clamped down on the peaceful protesters. The injured were rushed to hospital. Police spokesperson Charity Charamba and her deputy, Paul Nyathi, were…
HARARE – Divaris Makaharis School (Divaris)’s lawyers have told the school’s ex-head Christopher Tapera to stop his misinformation campaign about his alleged labour court win against the institution. This not only comes as the disgraced former Heritage School principal has claimed he had won a second and $20 000 appeal against the Harare school, but…
HARARE – An unlicensed commuter omnibus driver hit two police officers while evading a roadblock, before pelting a police vehicle with stones, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. Abraham Moyana, 23, has been charged with failure to comply with police instructions, two counts of attempted murder, malicious damage to property and driving without a licence. According…
HARARE – War veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda says the ruling Zanu PF party has gone off the rails owing to endemic nepotism and corruption. In an interview with the Daily News last weekend, Sibanda said his party was no longer respecting the egalitarian principles of the liberation struggle as evidenced by growing cronyism. Citing the…
HARARE – Harare deputy mayor Thomas Muzuva has refused to share with 45 other councillors a $1 500 allowance he earned from investigating the $144 million China-Exim bank loan facility that was allegedly abused by city fathers. An agitated Muzuva told a council meeting last week that it was unfair that councillors jostle to get…
