HARARE – Dethroned Miss Zimbabwe, Emily Kachote, said yesterday she will not return her bejewelled crown until pageant organisers tell her what wrong she did. The Marry Chiwenga-led Miss Zimbabwe Trust (MZT) on Wednesday said Kachote, 25, had been dethroned for violating rules and regulations governing the pageant. An emotionally-charged Kachote lashed back at her…
HARARE – More heads are set to roll in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF as its ambitious Young Turks who are known as the Generation 40 (G40) group — of which the party’s national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is said to be a leading member — embarks on a fresh wave of purges targeted at…
HARARE – Expelled Zanu PF stalwarts Ray Kaukonde, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and David Butau were yesterday formally ejected from Parliament — setting the stage for more costly by-elections at a time that the government is saddled with massive debts and failing to meet its obligations. Jacob Mudenda, the Speaker of Parliament, announced that he had received…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF swept the “sham” parliamentary by-elections held on Wednesday, with the party candidates registering “pyrrhic” victory with handsome margins in all the 16 seats. The ruling party also clinched an unexpected victory in Bulawayo, winning all the five seats in a special poll boycotted by Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. The…
HARARE – Parirenyatwa Hospital has hiked admission fees by over 100 percent, with the hike sledged as “insensitive”. The development has been met with widespread shock by patients and public health activists. Announcing the decision through a memo issued on June 5, the hospital’s new finance director Mercy Sanzira said the new tariffs took effect…
HARARE – The Warriors finally left for Malawi by road Friday just before 12pm for Saturday’s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Flames in Blantyre. Initially, the team was scheduled to leave for Malawi on Thursday afternoon but the players refused to leave their hotel to go to the airport as they demanded…
HARARE – Prophetic Healing Ministries (PHD) leader Walter Magaya on Thursday night bailed out the Warriors by paying their allowances for Saturday’s match against Malawi. The players had on Thursday refused to travel to Malawi for their African Cup of Nations (Afcon) 2017 qualifier tie at Kamuzu Stadium, in a move that plunged the game…
HARARE – Mwana Africa Plc (Mwana) founder and chief executive Kalaa Mpinga has resigned with immediate effect after the recent boardroom changes at the Zimbabwe-based nickel and gold miner. Yat Hoi Ning, the new Mwana executive chairman, said terms of Mpinga’s departure are still to be finalised and agreed by both parties. “Mr Mpinga has…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Asset Management Company (Zamco) – a government’s special purpose vehicle to house non-performing loans (NPLs) – is finalising modalities to clean up local banks’ balance sheets, a central bank official said. Kupukile Mlambo, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) deputy governor, told delegates at the ongoing African Rural Agricultural Credit Association (Afraca), Regional…
HARARE – Zimbabwe miners and other economic stakeholders have hailed government’s move to immediately lift a ban on the export of the mineral as it will enable them to raise funds to increase smelting capacity. Morgan Moyo, the Zimbabwe Miners Federation vice president, said the lifting of the ban would help bring revive the chrome…
