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Tongaat seeks $20 million to up sugar production

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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest sugar producer Tongaat Hulett (Tongaat) says it is seeking $20 million from various financial institutions earmarked for the development of 4 000 hectares it was recently allocated by government. Tongaat chief executive Sydney Mutsambiwa, on Thursday told Parliament’s Indigenisation and Economic empowerment committee that this company was given the greenlight to…

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This is no way to run a country

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HARARE – There was an assassination at the Kremlin in Moscow the other day. The victim was a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB boss, now running the Russian federation. Nobody came out to announce publicly who had committed the dastardly deed. Incidentally, the Kremlin murder occurred around the same time that a…

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Mugabe must learn from Japan

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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe quietly flew into the country yesterday morning after a two-week visit to Japan where he held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and also attended the third United Nations Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. However, during his absence, chaos reigned supreme as prisoners rioted while industrial action paralysed the…

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Tsvangirai drags Mugabe to court

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HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party is dragging President Robert Mugabe to court in a bid to stop all the country’s pending by-elections before the passage of necessary electoral laws, in conformity with Zimbabwe’s new Constitution. In a Constitutional Court application filed on Monday, the MDC cited Mugabe as one of the respondents…

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Zanu PF fails on its election promises

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HARARE – Two years down the road since the disputed 2013 elections, President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has failed to deliver on a single one of its plethora of pledges contained in its high-sounding election manifesto, including promises to create two million jobs. A former Zanu PF politburo member who spoke to the Daily News…

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Speaker rejects RBZ Bill petition

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HARARE – Jacob Mudenda, the speaker of the National Assembly, has refused to accept a petition by civil society organisations urging parliamentarians to reject the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Debt Assumption Bill. The petition, undersigned by the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) and its affiliate members including African Forum and Network on…

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Mugabe flies into crisis

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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, pictured, flew back yesterday from his visit to Japan to face a country teetering on the brink of collapse. The Mugabe government has so far failed to respond to the many challenges facing hard-pressed citizens, resulting in a groundswell of unrest. Over the past two weeks, different interests groups have…

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We never bankrolled Mugabe assassination plot: Tongaat

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HARARE – Tongaat Hulett (Tongaat) has refuted allegations that it sponsored certain individuals aligned to former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s camp to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. Sydney Mutsambiwa, the Tongaat chief executive, told a parliamentary committee on indigenisation and economic empowerment, that his organisation has over the years been donating huge amounts of money to…

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Dejected Biti cries foul

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HARARE – A devastated Tendai Biti on Wednesday described the expulsion of 21 legislators from his MDC renewal team as tragic, vowed to contest the legislation which empowers political parties to recall Members of Parliament. At a press conference that was largely attended by distraught expelled legislators, Biti sensationally claimed that officials from the mainstream…

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Salif Keita returns to Hifa

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HARARE – Malian music superstar Salif Keita will be the closing act of this year’s Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa) which will run from April 28 to May 3 under the theme “Articulate”. Keita, who was the star performer of the 2010 edition of Hifa, will collaborate with rising mbira star Hope Masike. Keita’s…

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