LUSAKA – Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) on Monday resumed direct flights between Harare and Lusaka after a three-year hiatus as the national airline continues to increase its route network Obert Mpofu, Transport minister, told delegates boarding the flight to Lusaka that the latest development would greatly improve Airzim’s route networks as the national airline has been…
HARARE – Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) hopes to ramp up coal production to six million tonnes per year following the commissioning of mining equipment worth $31,2 million last week. “We expect our production capacity to significantly improve to 450 000 tonnes per month amounting to an annual coal production of close to six million…
LONDON – In any civilised society, Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana would have, of his own accord, resigned or been sacked. It is not surprising that his comments which seemed to condone child marriages would have, to use an exclusively Zimbabwean media lexical invention, “torched a storm”. Tomana is the prosecutor-in-chief who is supposed to protect the…
HARARE – Revelations by former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa that Zanu PF cheated in the 2008 poll are nothing new really. According to official figures, Morgan Tsvangirai garnered 47,9 percent of the March 2008 vote while Mugabe got 43,2 percent and these results took more than a month to announce as Zanu PF was…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday revealed how a desperate Zanu PF had dispatched its leading lights to him, allegedly including former State Security minister Nicholas Goche, to try and broker a deal that would save the party’s and President Robert Mugabe’s bacon after they had lost the March 2008 elections. Amplifying the stunning…
HARARE – Legal experts yesterday savaged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), accusing it of duplicity and dishonesty while trashing the electoral body’s controversial decision to declare Zanu PF candidate Keith Guzah the winner of Hurungwe West by-election despite the fact that he was not a registered voter in the constituency. In a statement that set…
HARARE – The US State Department has said Zimbabwe must make public President Robert Mugabe’s office budget as a step towards improving fiscal transparency. This comes after the Comptroller and Auditor-General Mildred Chiri revealed that the President’s Office failed to produce documents for auditing purposes such as invoices, receipts and goods received to support payments….
HARARE – Railway workers unions have pleaded with parliamentarians to push for a forensic audit of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) amid allegations of massive corruption, bloated management and conflict of interest. Appearing before a parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructure Development yesterday, presidents of three railway unions claimed efforts to re-capitalise the…
HARARE – Jailed former Air Zimbabwe boss Peter Chikumba has filed an application for bail. Harare regional magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni initially jailed Chikumba and Grace Pfumbidzayi for 10 years each. She went on to suspend three years on condition of good behaviour after convicting the two on lesser charges of abusing their offices. Charges against Chikumba…
LONDON – Rwanda’s intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, who is wanted in Spain for war crimes, has been arrested in London. Gen Karake, 54, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, and remanded in custody ahead of a court hearing on Thursday. He is accused of ordering massacres while head of military intelligence in the wake…
