WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama defended his decision not to call war against ISIS as a religious one during remarks at an anti-extremism summit on Wednesday. “We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with those who have perverted Islam,” he said. Original Post: At this week’s summit on combating violent extremists,…
HARARE – Harare’s Prince Edward High School will tomorrow host a “Meet the Author” session in which Shimmer Chinodya and Valerie Tagwira, authors of Strife and The Uncertainty of Hope respectively, will discuss their books with veteran arts personality and writer Ignatius Mabasa and medical doctor and public health practitioner Sunanda Ray. Both books are…
HARARE – National Arts and Merit Award (Nama) winner Angeline Kamba, says the recent gong was the greatest acknowledgment she has ever received for the role she played in the country’s arts sector. The former civil servant who clinched the Arts Service Award during the 14th edition of Nama in recognition of her contribution over…
HARARE – The Miss Zimbabwe finals which had been scheduled for April 25 will now be held on May 2 to pave way for the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF). The national pageant’s communications and programmes manager, Tendai Chirau said dates for the beauty contest which will be run under the theme “Probity” had been…
HARARE – Global aviation, for nearly the past half-century was dominated by the colourful, imperial, “On Her Majesty’s Service” British Airways. Who would ever forget their stunning Boeing 747-400 fleet (55-strong today and the largest such jumbo-jet fleet in the world). We will not even mention the magical sprinkling of the supersonic aviation icon; the…
HARARE – Zimbabwean banks recorded a combined profit of $52, 8 million in the year to December 2014, up 1 453 percent from $3, 4 million recorded in prior comparable period, central bank statistics revealed. John Mangudya, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, said despite a few banks struggling to stay afloat, a total 14…
HARARE – Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) — the world’s second-largest platinum producer — has projected lower earnings for the half year to December 2014 due to disruptions caused by the collapse of its Zimbabwean unit Zimplats’ Bimha Mine. Bimha, the largest of Zimplats’ four mines, collapsed in July last year due to accelerated deterioration of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s year-on-year inflation rate receded to -1, 28 percent in January 2015 after shedding 0, 48 percentage points on December 2014’s – 0, 80 percent. The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) on Monday said prices, as measured by the all items Consumer Price Index, decreased by an average 1,28 percentage points between January…
HARARE – In 2011 veteran nationalist and former Midlands Governor Cephas Msipa, told a packed auditorium at the Rainbow Towers Hotel the harrowing stories of former Zapu cadres who bore the brunt of a crackdown by the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade. The crackdown to stem ‘‘insurrection’’ by ‘‘dissidents’’in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces resulted in…
HARARE – It does not rain for long-suffering Zimbabweans, it pours. Following recent revelations by economists that average incomes in Zimbabwe are now at their lowest levels in 60 years, it has now emerged that more than 76 percent of the country’s adult population has to make do with less than $200 a month. This,…
