HARARE – PPC Zimbabwe’s operational performance is being buoyed by increased infrastructure projects in the country, a company top official has said. Njombo Lekula, PPC Zimbabwe managing director, told South African investors recently that there is a renewed focus by government to revamp the nation’s infrastructure that deteriorated in the last decade. “What is opening…
HARARE – Most countries pride themselves on having a free press. A free press has to be free to make any difference to the running of a country. In the United States, there is no pretence — as there is in many African countries — of a government-run newspaper or radio station posing as something…
HARARE – The ugly factional and succession fights raging within President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF exploded into open warfare in Parliament yesterday when newly-appointed Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere and Gokwe-Nembudziya Zanu PF legislator Justice Wadyajena crossed swords sharply. The combative Kasukuwere, who has boasted of being one of Zimbabwe’s “biggest political thugs”, had been…
HARARE – Relocated Tokwe-Mukorsi villagers have lashed President Robert Mugabe’s government, appealing to the nonagenarian to visit the Chingwizi transit camp urgently to witness first-hand the dire conditions at the Nuanetsi Ranch. In a letter dated July 8, that also appealed for food and medicine to save the lives of thousands of people who were…
HARARE – High Court judge Chinembiri Bhunu yesterday dismissed former Masvingo Provincial State minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti’s appeal challenging his expulsion from Zanu PF. Mugabe’s lawyer Terence Hussein had opposed Bhasikiti’s application on the basis that he had failed to exhaust internal remedies to resolve the issue and that he had failed to comply with court…
HARARE – Campaigners calling for the release of Itai Dzamara are holding a prayer session in Harare tomorrow to mark four months since the activist went missing. This comes as Western embassies are also calling on authorities to step up investigations into his disappearance. Dzamara, a journalist-turned-activist who went missing after staging sit-ins demanding the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (Zef) yesterday angrily slammed gushing praises for President Robert Mugabe by Julius Malema, South Africa’s Economic Freedom Front (EFF) opposition leader that the problems in Zimbabwe were not caused by the nonagenarian but by “capital”. Zef chairperson and human rights lawyer Gabriel Shumba said that his organisation was “outraged and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has totally forgotten the victims and neglected the families affected by the National Sports Stadium disaster according to Temba Mliswa. On July 9, 2000, 13 people lost their lives when police fired teargas into the crowd during the 2002 World Cup qualifier between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Today marks 15 years since…
HARARE – South Africa Football Association president Danny Jordaan paid tribute to the 13 victims of the National Sports Stadium disaster during the 2002 World Cup qualifier between the Warriors and Bafana Bafana on this day 15 years ago. In a statement, Jordaan said: “It is a miserable day which should never be seen or…
HARARE – Government says the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) misappropriated funds allocated for Warriors players’ allowances. Sports deputy minister Tabitha Kanengoni-Malinga made the revelations while responding to a question raised by Buhera legislator Joseph Chinotimba in Parliament yesterday. “Zvinozongobuda tonzwa kuti national team yapuhwa mari nanhingi asi imi muine budget (Every time we hear the…
