HARARE – As Zimbabwe marks its 35 years of independence from Britain today, opposition parties say the time has come to take President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF head-on to engender meaningful political and economic freedom in the country. Speaking at a joint Press conference in Harare yesterday, opposition leaders — who included MDC president…
HARARE – South African (SA) group Big Nuz has hinted that they could cancel a gig set for Bulawayo tomorrow night amid calls for local music fans to boycott the concert in protest over xenophobic attacks raging across the Limpopo. DJ Tira, the director of Big Nuz’s record label, believes their safety can no longer…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest platinum producer, Zimplats, is set to retrench 25 managers as part of the company’s cost-containment measures in the face of declining international metal prices and a challenging economic environment. Busi Chindove, Zimplats head of corporate affairs, told businessdaily yesterday that the retrenchment exercise was being necessitated by challenges the mining company…
HARARE – Colonialism had little to commend it. It was ugliness personified. For those of us born when it was at full blast, the memories are difficult to erase. That is why I have declared that I personally have forgiven the fat white lady who, in 1956 in the city of Salisbury, asked about me:…
HARARE – Tomorrow, some Zanu PF supporters will throng various platforms across the country to celebrate independence day but for the majority of Zimbabweans, who have had to endure hardships and suffering in the past 35 years, it will be just another day. What is there to celebrate when more than three million brothers and…
HARARE – The MDC has drawn a line in the sand, with the party’s National Council restating the congress resolution that their party will only participate in elections predicated on far-reaching reforms in order to ensure a truly free, fair and credible poll. History has shown us the futility of contesting in polls under the…
HARARE – Firebrand war veteran and former Zanu PF legislator Margaret Dongo, pictured, has blamed the gruesome xenophobic attacks in South Africa — which have affected tens of thousands of desperate Zimbabweans living there — on President Robert Mugabe’s and Zanu PF’s “gross misrule” of the past 35 years. In an interview with the Daily…
GWERU – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday described President Robert Mugabe as a failure 35 years after assuming power. He said the 91-year-old Zanu PF leader’s misrule has condemned millions of Zimbabweans to abject poverty. Speaking at a rally in Mkoba attended by hundreds of mainly unemployed youths, Tsvangirai said the Mugabe-led government should be…
HARARE – A group of lawmakers on Wednesday presented a petition to the South African embassy in Harare, calling on the neighbouring country to make concerted efforts to stop xenophobic attacks. MDC MPs Jessie Majome, James Maridadi, Margaret Matienga, Paurina Mpariwa, senator John Makore and Josephine Chitembwe and Zanu PF MPs Tongesai Mudambo and Shadreck…
BULAWAYO – Locals here are still trekking to South Africa amid the growing reports of violence against foreigners spreading from Durban to Johannesburg. It was business as usual at the bus terminus along George Silundika Street in Zimbabwe’s second largest city where a number of people were busy making their bookings. Brian Munemo, Eagle Liner…
