HARARE – Joseph Chinotimba, the Buhera South Zanu PF legislator, yesterday dragged an Epworth man who poured scorn on his long beard to the magistrates’ courts. Tatenda Benjamin Machingauta, 29, appeared before provincial magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe charged with contravening the Postal and Telecommunications Act. The Act outlaws sending insulting messages over the phone. Machingauta was…
HARARE – Zimbabwe mining companies say they are not evading taxes but distribute their earnings legitimately among various stakeholders in line with the country’s laws. Isaac Kwesu, the Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines chief executive, recently told delegates attending the Buy Zimbabwe Summit that miners last year remitted approximately 17 percent of mining industry revenue in…
HARARE – Innscor Africa Limited (Innscor) has tasked its executive director for corporate finance, John Koumides, to lead an advisory committee implementing the separate listing of the group’s fast-food business on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). A former Innscor chief executive, Koumides, was in November 2014 reassigned to his current post following the appointment of…
HARARE – Information Minister Jonathan Moyo’s job was hanging in the balance last night after President Robert Mugabe kicked him out of a Cabinet meeting yesterday saying that as he was no longer a non-constituency MP, he could not be a minister until the nonagenarian re-appointed him properly to his administrative team. Moyo, who was…
HARARE – Analysts yesterday accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of displaying “astounding double standards” by declaring Keith Guzah as the new MP for Hurungwe West although he was not registered to vote there. They said it had not been lost to observers and Zimbabweans at large that Zec’s alleged “duplicity” had come hardly six…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe will stop enrolling students under the Presidential Scholarship Fund at South African universities but at local universities due to a funding crisis. The scheme’s administrators have admitted there is no money to pay for new students or meet the needs of the thousands already on the scheme. Mugabe said fund…
BULAWAYO – MDC Veteran Activists Association (Vaa) will this Sunday hand a two-roomed house near Mandamabwe Business Centre in rural Chivi built to compensate one of the thousands victims of Zanu PF’s ruthless campaign in 2000. The house is the second to be constructed by a group of opposition activists who pioneered robust opposition to…
HARARE – The testimonial match of former Zimbabwe international Harlington Shereni has been postponed although no finer explanation was given. The game was due to take place this weekend, and will be rescheduled for a later date. In a statement released yesterday by the organisers new dates and arrangements will be communicated in due course….
HARARE – CAPS United interim coach Mark Mathe has vowed to maintain the success enjoyed by the club under his predecessor Mark Harrison, who quit the Green Machine two weeks ago. Harrison dumped Makepekepe to join Botswana Be Mobile Premiership side Township Rollers. The Briton resigned from the club citing personal and professional damage that…
HARARE – Out of favour Highlanders coach Bongani Mafu is under “enormous pressure” ahead of Bosso’s clash against Dynamos on Sunday with the outspoken coach even refused to speak to the media on the big game. Mafu — who was appointed Bosso coach at the beginning of the year — is under growing pressure from…
