MUTARE – Zimbabwean Tammy la Grange has raised $3 200 to help paralysed South African triathlete Richard Holland after running 2 050km for charity last year. Holland, who represented South Africa at the 2007 World Championships in Germany, suffered life-threatening injuries when a car hit him from behind while he was training in Dubai three…
HARARE – The Agricultural Rural Development Authority (Arda) has secured an investor for a tomato processing project earmarked to process at least 60 tonnes of tomatoes per day, businessdaily has learnt. Basil Nyabadza, Arda chairman, said the multi-million dollar tomato canning plant would be established at Arda Balu Estate in Umguza District. “We have now…
HARARE – Disgruntled Tetrad Investment Bank (TIB) depositors have formed a trust probing the struggling institution for a forensic audit, it has emerged. The trust, which seeks to understand the reasons behind delays in securing an investor for the bank, wants a forensic audit into the activities of the bank, its associates as well as…
HARARE – Award-winning Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove, 56, died in Norway on Sunday barely a day after the burial in Mhangura of top female poet and author Freedom Nyamubaya. Hove, who was elected the inaugural chairperson of the Zimbabwe Writers Union (Ziwu) in 1984, reportedly died after a liver failure. The award-winning author, who feared…
HARARE – Afro-fusion artiste Jah Prayzah’s new studio called JP Studios, located at the artiste’s new offices in Belvedere, is now operational. Jah Prayzah, who is attracting the biggest crowds in Harare following release of his latest album Jerusarema, is confident that the studio will eventually prove to be a worthwhile investment. “The studio is…
LONDON – The relationship between President Robert Mugabe and one of his ministers, Jonathan Moyo, is one of the most puzzling in contemporary politics. Given the personal attacks on one another and public humiliations, it never ceases to boggle the mind that the two men sit in the same Cabinet. Moyo’s attacks on Mugabe before…
HARARE – Journalist-turned-democracy activist Itai Dzamara was abducted four months ago, but no one in authority wants to offer any clue to his whereabouts or fate. Since March 9, when the Occupy Africa Unity Square leader went missing, his wife Sheffra has spent most of her time campaigning and working to ensure his safe return….
MEXICO CITY – Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s whereabouts are anyone’s guess. And the clock is ticking. The leader of the Sinaloa cartel stepped into a shower at the maximum security prison in Almoloya de Juárez, crawled through a hole and vanished through a mile-long tunnel apparently built just for him. That was Saturday night. By…
HARARE – The uneasy alliance of the past year between First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is apparently unravelling, as President Robert Mugabe’s increasingly influential wife is now said to be working again with Zanu PF’s ambitious Young Turks who operate as the Generation 40 (G40) camp. Zanu PF insiders told the…
HARARE – Ousted former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s complete disappearance from the public arena over the past few weeks has left many of her sympathisers and staunch supporters confused about what her real game plan is — even as her close allies insist that “she is ready to work for the people”. Mujuru and her…
