HARARE – It never rains but it pours for Miss Curvy founder and former model Mercy Mushaninga whose properties keep getting auctioned over unpaid debts. Mushaninga’s 2 000 square metre stand located in Charlotte Brooke is going under the hammer on April 10. The imminent auction follows an earlier one that took place on January…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi has urged government to shelve the idea of establishing a Ports Authority project because government has no money to embark on the ambitious venture. Transport Minister Obert Mpofu is pushing for the implementation of the project. Internationally, a Port Authority is a government or quasi-government public…
HARARE – A country’s education system is one of its strongest assets as it helps develop the nation’s human resource as well as skills base. Zimbabwe’ ailing economic and political fortunes have led to thousands of citizens crossing the country’s borders to sell their labour elsewhere with South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia some of…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF is on fire over contentious claims that General Solomon Mujuru plotted, with his much-harassed widow Joice, to oust and assassinate the nonagenarian before the revered late liberation war icon’s charred remains were found after a mysterious inferno at his Beatrice farm in 2011. The divisive allegations against…
HARARE – Controversial State media columnist, Nathaniel Manheru, widely believed to be President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba, says the nonagenarian has, by expelling former vice president Joice Mujuru, finally resolved the succession puzzle and is now set to “bow out like all mortals”. In his typically long and verbose column in The Herald yesterday,…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF bigwig and Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa says opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC should contest the parliamentary by-elections scheduled for June 10 as the party had an excellent chance to win them. At least 14 seats are up for grabs in two months’ time after the recent expulsion from Parliament…
NAIROBI – Five people are in custody following the al-Shabab attack in eastern Kenya on Thursday which left almost 150 people dead, officials say. Some of the suspects were arrested while trying to flee to neighbouring Somalia, the internal security ministry said. At least 148 people – mostly students – were killed when gunmen attacked…
HARARE – A suprisingly buoyant Didymus Mutasa says notwithstanding the machinations of Zanu PF hardliners and their purported expulsion of former vice president Joice Mujuru from the brawling ruling party, the 59-year-old widow of the late liberation war icon, General Solomon Mujuru, will one day lead both the party and the country. Speaking in an…
HARARE – Analysts said yesterday that a palpable fear of a still popular former vice president Joice Mujuru, as well as President Robert Mugabe’s urgent need to anoint a trusted successor were behind her summary expulsion from Zanu PF this week without her facing disciplinary proceedings. Political analyst Charles Mangongera told the Daily News that…
HARARE – It was business as usual in Harare yesterday despite the Easter holidays having started as shops and retail outlets were open for business. Downtown Harare was a hustle and bustle as tuck-shops were abuzz with everyday business, without consideration to the holiday which signifies the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. A survey…
