HARARE – South Africa’s Tongaat Hulett (Tongaat) says its Zimbabwe sugar production is likely to decline to 475 000 tonnes this year from 488 000 tonnes in 2014 due to an increase in cane demand. Peter Staude, the group’s chief executive, said the anticipated decline is “mainly as a consequence of no cane being diverted…
HARARE – Former Justice deputy minister and Mazowe South legislator, Fortune Chasi, continues to be the only Zanu PF bigwig who has the courage to publicly empathise with poor families being evicted from a Mazowe farm by First Lady Grace Mugabe to pave way for the expansion of her vast business empire in the area….
HARARE – Facing mounting criticism over its inept handling of the country’s comatose economy, the government has given local fuel dealers an ultimatum to slash fuel prices by Wednesday next week (January 14). Recently-appointed Energy minister, Samuel Undenge, told a news conference in Harare yesterday that government would take unspecified but stern action if fuel…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday left for Kenya to attend the burial of the son of his friend and former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Luke Tamborinyoka, Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, confirmed that his boss had left for the funeral of Fidel Odinga, who was found dead on Sunday. “The (MDC) president has gone to…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday ordered Gokwe-Nembudziya Zanu PF MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena to pay $450 for the upkeep of a child he fathered with Wadzanai Mudare. Magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami handed the ruling yesterday following an application for an enquiry to justify the previous $1 500 maintenance order. He said it was the duty…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has acquitted former Studio 263 actor, Tafadzwa Gregory Hillary Tandi, who was being accused of fleecing a couple of $23 500. Tandi was charged with fraud after reportedly lying to the couple that was planning a wedding that he was a choreographer employed at Cresta Lodges. He also allegedly claimed…
BULAWAYO – The Welshman Ncube-led MDC’s Matabeleland North province has described Believe Gaule as a nonentity who is attempting to revive his waning political career. Gaule, the former MDC Senator for Tsholotsho who re-joined Zanu PF last week, was 10 years ago, a member of Zanu PF and allegedly invited party officials who included the…
HARARE – Local football clubs must treat their long-serving players with more respect than what is happening at the moment. One good example is the way one of the country’s biggest clubs Dynamos have handled the issue regarding their long-serving captain Murape Murape. The Glamour Boys leadership have made it clear that they are not…
HARARE – Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has shot down a recent press report claiming that he was making “frantic” efforts to arrange a meeting with President Robert Mugabe. The veteran musician described the report as a “mischievous misrepresentation” in a statement released by his publicist Blessing Vava. “Chimurenga Music Company wishes to make it…
HARARE – Star FM producer Ndumiso “Sky Walker” Dube, who is paying for maintenance for several children sired with different women, will be heading back to the civil court on January 19. Sky Walker has been dragged to court by Tendai Manyame who told the Daily News that she was now fed up with the…
