HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket coach is confident that his team will put in a good showing at the 2015 Cricket World Cup that gets underway next month in Australia and New Zealand. The Southern African country has been drawn in a tough Pool B at the tournament that includes fellow Test-playing nations South Africa, India,…
HARARE – First of all, let’s face it, putting everything else aside, life is easier when you’re strong. Carrying groceries? Five bags per hand and get it done with one trip. Children to carry? No problem, one in each arm and the third on your back. Car breaks down (in Zimbabwe that is a regular…
HARARE – Ravaged by escalating factional and succession wars and fearing annihilation at the fast approaching 2018 national elections, Zanu PF has made a humiliating climbdown by moving to accommodate legislators perceived to be sympathetic to ousted former Vice President Joice Mujuru. This stunning policy reversal was confirmed over the past few days as the…
HARARE – Perceived allies of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF’s new political commissar Savior Kasukuwere lost the party’s keenly-anticipated primary elections in Mt Darwin yesterday — as the seemingly omnipresent ghost of ousted VP Joice Mujuru continues to haunt the ruling party. The Mt Darwin West seat fell vacant after Mujuru was appointed…
HARARE – Robert Martin Gumbura, the incarcerated Independent End Time Message founder, has sought the services of a new lawyer, prompting High Court judges to yesterday postpone hearing his appeal indefinitely. Gumbura is currently serving a 40-year prison term after being convicted by Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya on four counts of raping female congregants…
BULAWAYO – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko set himself on a collision course with vendors after he said he did not understand why able-bodied people should engage in subsistence trading. While addressing Zanu PF supporters at provincial party headquarters at Davies Hall on Sunday during his maiden “Meet the People” tour in Bulawayo, Mphoko went against…
GWERU – A High Court judge has said courts are overwhelmed with the burgeoning number of cases taxing the existing manpower. Justice Lawrence Kamocha said this was delaying the completion of cases in circuit courts. Five judges based in Bulawayo are responsible for Midlands, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South and Bulawayo circuit courts. The circuit courts…
HARARE – Sungura artiste Peter Moyo sampled a couple of new songs during Sunday’s joint show with Suluman Chimbetu at Rangers Gardens in Westlea but was quick to emphasise that his second album was not imminent. The 24-year-old Moyo released his six-track debut album Mushonga Mukuru close to two years ago after concerted pressure from…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya says the numerous bank closures seen in recent years are normal in tough economic environments and insisted that the country’s banking sector remains “safe and sound”. “This happens everywhere. In the United States, banks closed in 2008 (after a) financial crisis,” he said last week…
HARARE – Salary increments are “unsustainable and short-sighted” in a depressed economy like Zimbabwe’s, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said. The country faces waning economic prospects, with its gross domestic product (GDP) expected to barely grow this year. According to the World Bank, Zimbabwe’s GDP growth declined to 1,7 percent last year from 2013’s 3,2 percent….
