BULAWAYO – The San people, who are resident in Matabeleland North Province, will hold a maiden two-day cultural festival on October 16 and 17 in a bid to safeguard their cultural heritage. Dubbed Ibhoro Bush Cultural Festival, the event will take place at Garia, about 60 kilometres north of Tsholotsho, under the theme: My Culture,…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)’s benchmark industrial index declined by 5,25 percent in August 2015 and reached a three-year low of 135,43 points, owing to losses in heavyweight counters, an equities report has shown. The industrials last traded below current levels as far back as September 3, 2012 when it traded at 132,82…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has recovered gold and diamonds worth $2,4 million from unlicensed dealers in the 11 months to August this year, official figures show. The Mines ministry said the minerals had been seized by the police from about 360 people, during the period under review. “Recoveries between September 2014 and August 2015 of gold…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s mobile telephone subscribers grew by 5,5 percent in the first quarter of this year to 18,6 million from 17,6 million recorded as at December 31, 2014, latest official figures show. The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) in its latest report noted that active mobile subscribers marginally rose by 0,5…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s state of preparedness for the forthcoming agricultural season anticipated to be hit hard by drought, should not be a matter of guessing. We are already coming from a disastrous 2014/2015 season which left the country’s food security in a precarious state. It is estimated that about 1, 8 million people need food…
BUJUMBURA – The spokesman for a party in Burundi opposed to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s third term has been shot dead in the capital, Bujumbura. Patrice Gahungu, from the Union for Peace and Development (UPD), was targeted by unidentified gunmen as he drove home late on Monday, police say. The leader of the same small opposition…
HARARE – Losing Hurungwe West independent candidate Temba Mliswa yesterday produced video evidence in court showing blatant vote-buying and intimidation by his rival Keith Guzah in the by-elections. Mliswa is seeking the nullification of Guzah’s victory in the June 10 by-election. Apart from vote-buying, Mliswa accused Guzah of intimidating him and blocking him from campaigning….
HARARE – Zanu PF is burning in Mashonaland Central as political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is purging party officials linked to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Kasukuwere is accused by some senior party officials in the province — where he is now the most senior member — of using his office to settle petty political scores. Already,…
HARARE – Convicts accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison yesterday revealed that prison officials brutally murdered inmates during the riot and later claimed that they were shot attempting to escape. Incarcerated Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura, Blessing Chiduke, 25, Luckmore Matambanadzo, 39, Luck Mhungu, 38, Taurai Dodzo,…
HARARE – Ii is now officially game on between President Robert Mugabe and his former long-serving deputy, Joice Mujuru, after the popular widow of the late liberation struggle icon, Solomon Mujuru, gave written notice yesterday that she would be taking Zanu PF head-on in the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections. This means that as previously predicted…
