LONDON – In the past few weeks, some opposition figures have berated Zimbabweans for being docile in the face of prolonged authoritarian rule and poverty. First it was Tendai Biti of the renewal team who said Zimbabweans were simply cowards. Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Press Club last week, the Welshman Ncube-led MDC spokesperson Nhlanhla…
HARARE – Former vice president Joice Mujuru has dismissed as “outright lies” President Robert Mugabe’s allegations over the weekend that she is dabbling in witchcraft in order to kill him and his wife Grace — emphasising further that her silence should not be confused for weakness. Mujuru, once the leading candidate to succeed Mugabe, was…
HARARE – Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL)’s contract with Portugal-based Mota Engil has continued to bear fruit, with the coal miner having ramped up production to 996 000 tonnes of coal since August 2014. With the arrangement expected to help the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed firm stabilise its own production and bridge the gap between equipment…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed suspended The Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi’s application for refusal of further remand. Magistrate Milton Serima said the matter could not just be dropped because it was complex. He said the State’s efforts to garner mutual legal assistance from United States of America showed the possibility of progress…
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has waded into the highly-controversial prepaid water meter wrangle by challenging the Bulawayo City Council to clarify its position on the matter. In a February 12 dated letter addressed to the city council’s chamber secretary, Sikhangele Zhou, ZLHR requested to be furnished with “pertinent information relating to…
HARARE – Spirit Embassy founder Uebert Angel’s brother Limit Mudzanire yesterday told a Harare court that he bought the Bentley Continental sedan at the centre of a fraud scandal on his family’s behalf. Refuting claims by the complainant that the vehicle was seeded to the church and later converted to Angel’s use, Mudzanire, who is…
HARARE – At least 80 million condoms were distributed under the national programme last year, the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has revealed. The condoms cost $25 million. ZNFPC, a parastatal mandated to coordinate, implement and monitor the provision of integrated sexual reproductive health, family planning and HIV and Aids services in Zimbabwe, said…
JOHANNESBURG – The proceeds of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa are currently equivalent to as much as $380 million, the United Nations Congress on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora said. Poaching of elephants for ivory, which is reducing the population of the animals faster than they can reproduce, is…
KAMPALA – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s changes to his cabinet at the weekend rewarded close allies and dismissed potential opponents, signaling his intention to extend his 29-year rule, Teneo Intelligence said. Museveni replaced Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka with her deputy, Matia Kasaija, because she was viewed as “less loyal” to the ruling National Resistance Movement,…
WINDHOEK – The outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership. The $5m (£3.2m) award is given each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. But the previous award was the fourth in five years…
