HARARE – Zimbabwe is engaging Germany to settle a $739 million debt owed to the European country, a move meant to thaw frosty relations and pave way for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday met visiting German director for sub-Saharan Africa and Sahel regions, Georg Schmidt and admitted that Germany was the…
EDITOR — It seems people are now very worried about President Robert Mugabe’s extensive travels around the globe as if he does it out of sheer pleasure of flying. I feel it is unfair to blame him for “just doing his job” because he still has election promises to deliver as well as regional obligations…
HARARE – Most Zimbabweans could be forgiven for being extremely anxious, unsure and nervous about the direction this country is taking since they were charmed into believing social and economic problems would dissipate once conclusive elections were held. Almost two years now, the electorate cannot see any light at the end of the tunnel, so…
HARARE – Zanu PF has launched a brutal campaign of terror against perceived supporters of former Vice President Joice Mujuru ahead of the party’s divisive primary elections to choose candidates to stand in 16 vacant legislative seats around the country, the Daily News has learnt. To add fuel to the raging factional fires devouring the…
HARARE – Information minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday leapt to the defence of President Robert Mugabe’s globe-trotting ways, saying the nonagenarian was elected to govern and not to rest. Responding to comments on his Twitter account on Mugabe’s myriad foreign trips at a time that Zimbabwe is experiencing an economic meltdown, Moyo argued that travelling abroad…
HARARE – Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo has dismissed outrightly reports alleging that he is working with former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC to destabilise Zimbabwe. The State media yesterday claimed that Mapfumo is part of a shadowy committee set up by Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC to create havoc in the country and force an early election….
HARARE – Lawyers have slammed government for militarising the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) by seconding members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), a move they say violates the constitution. Following the recent assault of the deputy prosecutor-general and director of the recently established NPA, Florence Ziyambi, at her work place allegedly by NPA employee colonel…
CHITUNGWIZA – Magistrate Don Ndirowei yesterday granted $50 bail to four MDC youths who were arrested following violence in the town which left at least seven MDC supporters injured last weekend. The State has charged the four, Foster Chabuka, Crispen Muchabaiwa, Kudakwashe Zungunde and John Chatunzwa with malicious damage to property as defined in section…
PARIS – A search and recovery operation has resumed in the southern French Alps after Tuesday’s crash of a Germanwings plane with 150 people on board. Officials warn the operation could last for days in a remote mountain ravine between Digne and Barcelonnette. The leaders of Germany, France and Spain are due to visit the…
HARARE – Cuthbert Dube has been criticised for not attending local football matches and despite continued public outcry over the state of the national game which is clearly in intensive care, it seems the Zifa president is not moved. The Young Warriors, considered as the future national team after Dube’s board disbanded the Warriors were…
