LUANDA – Angola will destroy 11 million eggs imported illegally into the country, the agriculture minister has said. The chicken eggs were brought in without an official health certificate, Afonso Pedro Canga is quoted by the state news agency as saying. He did not say from where the eggs, seized at the port in the…
HARARE – Parliamentarians have asked Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, to clarify the austerity measures for the civil service which he proposed in his Mid-term Fiscal Statement, it has emerged. Austerity means cutting expenditure, retrenching, halting projects or reducing spending, and in the Zimbabwe situation, this would include reduction of expenditure on social sectors of the…
HARARE – The central bank has disbursed about $4 million towards paying depositors money which was wiped out when the country adopted the multi-currency system shunning the embattled local currency, the Zimbabwean dollar (Z$), the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor said. Central bank governor John Mangudya said the demonetisation of the Z$, which started…
HARARE – The ministry of Primary and Secondary Education’s hands are tied in the case involving over 3 000 teachers who did not receive their July salaries, the responsible minister Lazarus Dokora has said. Dokora said it was up to the employer to solve the issue of teachers who were struck off the payroll after…
LONDON – For all its authoritarian tendencies, the Zanu PF regime has allowed political pluralism. Since abandoning the idea of a one-party State, as long as one meets the basic requirements, they can form a political party. From the pitifully unsophisticated Egypt Dzinemunhenzva to the savvier Simba Makoni, a disaffected former senior Zanu PF official….
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru, ex-Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and scores of liberation war stalwarts who were brutally purged from the warring post-congress Zanu PF and government yesterday snubbed Heroes Day commemorations around the country. It had been suggested in the days leading to yesterday that Mujuru would attend the commemorations at the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has blasted wildlife authorities accusing them of failing to protect the world’s most famous lion, Cecil which was brutally killed by American dentist, Walter Palmer at Hwange National Park recently. Mugabe came out guns blazing yesterday during Heroes Day commemorations in Harare saying Zimbabweans had abdicated their responsibility to protect…
HARARE – Government is open to negotiations with investors and has adopted a stance of respecting investor rights and sentiments, President Robert Mugabe said yesterday. In an apparent climbdown from his usual rhetoric about investors taking advantage of the country’s resources, Mugabe told followers at the Heroes Day commemorations that his government was amenable to…
HARARE – Magical Charly Black! That’s the best way of describing the effervescent visiting Jamaican who performed in Harare on Saturday and saved a potentially-riotous situation. A few minutes earlier there was total chaos inside Longcheng Plaza arena as patrons ran for cover fleeing missiles. Charly Black has the crowd in frenzy on Saturday night….
HARARE – For the greater part of this year veteran American drama teacher and director Julia Wharton trained eight Zimbabwean theatre directors under the ‘Mentor-Director Staged Reading Series’ organised by Almasi, a Zimbabwean-American dramatic arts organisation, co-founded by Zimbabwe-born Hollywood actress Danai Gurira and film director Patience Tawengwa. A stage reading is a form of…
