HARARE – Vice President Joice Mujuru’s faction emerged victorious from the 6th Zanu PF Youth League elections, with her faction thoroughly walloping the Emmerson Mnangagwa group. The entrance into politics of First Lady Grace Mugabe was viewed by many, including those from the Mnangagwa faction, as derailing Mujuru’s ascendency to power, but the vice president…
BULAWAYO – The smaller MDC led by Welshman Ncube last week lashed out at Zanu PF for its renewed invasions of black-owned farms. This follows the recent invasion of Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa’s Rudy Farm in Umguza district by Zanu PF youths. The Bulawayo City Council-owned Mazwi Sanctuary was last week also grabbed by Zanu…
HARARE – Youths in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF want the return of the national youth service training programme so as to embed the right ideologies in youths. The proposal is part of a raft of resolutions made at the 6th Zanu PF Youth Conference which ended yesterday. “To recommend that government reintroduce the national…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has more than a mountain to climb as he bids to unite the deeply divided Zanu PF. And the looming entrance into mainstream politics by his wife Grace does not make his bid to heal rifts in Zanu PF any easier. Strikingly, most of these problems are of Mugabe’s own…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe should be advised to slow down as she ascends to the ruling Zanu PF hierarchy. While she has received the full support from all provinces that have endorsed her candidature to become Zanu PF Women League’s chairperson at next month’s women’s congress, her recent militant salvos against party members…
HARARE – Japanese coatings company Kansai Plascon Limited (Kansai) is set to wholly acquire Astra Industries Limited (Astra) after revealing plans to buy out minority shareholders. Kansai currently owns a 63,25 percent stake in the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed paints manufacturer it acquired for $5,5 million from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in 2013. Last week,…
HARARE – Financial group CBZ Holdings (CBZ) is seeking investors to inject money into its Mauritius-based fund. The CBZ Global Fund (CBZGF), set up to pool capital to finance low-cost housing and energy projects, is part of the group’s new business initiatives. “We have just set this (Fund) up and we were in Mauritius two…
HARARE – Government’s insistence that all donations to Tokwe-Mukorsi and Tsholotsho floods victims be channelled through State structures has delayed the handover of proceeds from the Soap and Shirt Donation Winter Festival held in June. Several artistes such as Leonard Zhakata, Charles and Olivia Charamba, Fungisayi Zvakavapano-Mashavave, BaShupi, Suluman Chimbetu and Cynthia Mare took part…
HARARE – CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro reacted to his team’s impressive 3-0 win over Chiredzi yesterday by lambasting his opposite number Gishon Ntini for “backbiting” him and attempting to topple him at Makepekepe. An emotionally charged Mangwiro threw down the gauntlet after the match and accused Chiredzi coach Ntini of going behind his back…
HARARE – Some might describe yesterday’s play as boring and uninteresting. They couldn’t have been more further from the truth. Granted, it wasn’t the free-flowing and entertaining batting everybody expected to see, but it was like a game of chess. Two Grand Masters settling down over the chess board, and trying to outwit each other…
