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Another Telecel blow for Mutasa

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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court has dismissed businesswoman Jane Mutasa’s bid to block the sale of Empowerment Corporation (Private) Limited (EC)’s 40 percent stake in Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Telecel), thus further muddying the investment firm’s boardroom wars. The ruling, however, comes as the government has threatened to cancel the mobile operator’s licence and EC…

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GEM ups RioZim stake

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HARARE – RioZim’s largest shareholder, Gem RioZim Investments Limited (GEM), has increased its shareholding in the listed mining group from 24,97 percent to 28,3 percent. This follows shareholders’ approval to issue two million ordinary shares to GEM in settlement of a fee to underwrite RioZim’s $10 million rights issue. Market analysts, however, said GEM is…

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Step down now — Mugabe told

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HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is ratcheting up the pressure on President Robert Mugabe, demanding robustly yesterday that the nonagenarian resigns immediately to save Zimbabweans from starving to death due to his and the ruling Zanu PF party’s gross misrule. In a no-holds barred statement, MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu threw everything but the…

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VPs evil twins: Mzila Ndlovu

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BULAWAYO – Newly-appointed acting secretary general of the Welshman Ncube-led MDC, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, has described Zimbabwe’s two vice presidents not just as alleged threats to national security and unity over their controversial recent utterances — including that on Gukurahundi — but also as “evil Siamese twins”. The war veteran and former National Healing, Reconciliation…

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AG appointment hailed

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HARARE – Government officials have welcomed the appointment of Prince Machaya to the post of Attorney General of Zimbabwe, adding that this would speed the alignment of the country’s laws with the Constitution. Machaya was sworn in yesterday at Munhumutapa offices in Harare by the Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also the Justice minister….

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Speaker addresses scribes’ concerns

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HARARE – Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda says he will soon deliver a ruling on the shocking abuse and harassment of journalists by some overzealous  security officials at the august House last week. Mudenda has been under pressure to rescue journalists, who were last week ordered to switch off their cell phones and…

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Condoms sales surge as S. Korean court decriminalises adultery

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SEOUL – South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a controversial adultery law which for more than 60 years had criminalised extra-marital sex and jailed violators for up to two years. The nine-member bench ruled by seven to two that the 1953 statute aimed at protecting traditional family values was unconstitutional. “Even if adultery…

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Vaginal gel not effective in reducing HIV, study says

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HARARE – An extensive study undertaken by Follow-on African Consortium for Tenofovir Studies (Facts) has shown that a vaginal gel believed to reduce HIV infections among women is ineffective. The study found no evidence that directly links use of the gel to reduced infection rates after 123 participants of the study became infected with the…

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Zanu PF youths in door-to-door campaign

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HARARE – Zanu PF has roped in youths to shore up its dwindling support base in the urban areas by conducting  door-to-door campaigns which have left most residents terrified. The youths, were this week spotted in Harare’s Southerton suburb where they were demanding to see national identity cards ostensibly to verify if people will be…

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‘More officials to resign from Ncube’s camp’

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HARARE – The opposition MDC led by Welshman Ncube is facing collapse with top officials resigning en-masse as cracks continue to widen ahead of a planned merger with the MDC renewal team. Hardly two weeks after the breakaway opposition party’s secretary-general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga resigned under unclear circumstances, Frank Chamunorwa, the MDC deputy national chairperson quit…

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