MUTARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party wants to set up a diamond cutting and polishing centre in Mutare in a bid to become the main supplier of finished diamonds to the world, a senior official has said. Samuel Undenge, the Manicaland Zanu PF acting provincial chairperson, said the ruling party is establishing a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe needs to intensify age-specific interventions on sexual and reproductive health amid indications that the majority of young women are having unprotected sex, a women rights lobby group has said. The sentiments follow 2014 research findings by Guttmacher Institute and University of Zimbabwe’s Centre for Population Studies which state that two thirds of…
HARARE – Opposition legislators yesterday laughed at expelled Zanu PF Cabinet ministers as they took their seats in Parliament as back-benchers. The former ministers walked into the National Assembly led by Webster Shamu, Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Francis Nhema, Paul Chimedza, Fortune Chasi and Tendai Savanhu. They all took back seats in the chamber. Before being fired…
HARARE – Manzou Farm villagers have filed another urgent court application seeking to interdict the government from bringing more wildlife to the farm, arguing animals should not take precedence over people. In the court application, the residents, who are represented by Tonderai Bhatasara and Gift Mtisi, cited Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi, Lands minister Douglas…
HARARE – The curious, awaiting press corps fretted with impatience until Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and a then unknown Israeli finally came out after what appeared to have been a long meeting with President Robert Mugabe. The journalists had waited for over two hours, wondering what had held the president, who had called for an…
BULAWAYO – A government slum clearance campaign launched more than a decade ago purportedly to unclutter urban centres of illegal lean-tos and informal roadside kiosks has instead added dross than sanitize the urban environment. The internationally-condemned campaign has blown the lid off a flawed state housing programme often kept out of public scrutiny until disaster…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has lost R700bn to corruption over the last 20 years, the Institute of Internal Auditors said on Wednesday. “The cost of corruption in the last 20 years… we have lost R700bn,” CEO Claudelle von Eck said at the launch of the Anti-Intimidation and Ethical Practices Forum in Johannesburg. Von Eck, who…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) yesterday unveiled head coaches across five formats of the game with the union’s technical director Brighton Chivandire saying the individuals have their work cut out. The new coaches were handed four-year performance-based contracts and have been tasked to select their own backroom staff. Cyprian Mandenge is now the Sables…
HARARE – Roderick Mutuma and Russell Madamombe have started training with Dynamos after a protracted negotiation over their contract renewals. Mutuma had been linked to a move to big spending Bulawayo side How Mine, who have already snapped up Devon Chafa and Tawanda Muparati from the defending champions. Madomombe’s contract had run out at the…
JOHANNESBURG – Ronald Pfumbidzai, Zimbabwe’s Under-23 full back, has begun a trial with Kaizer Chiefs as he looks to try and land himself a contract with the Amakhosi. Pfumbidzai, 20, currently plays for CAPS United in Zimbabwe and has impressed in the domestic league over the past year, earning plenty of praise in his homeland….
