HARARE – Zimbabwe is set to meet with multilateral creditors next month at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) conventions in Lima, Peru, to renegotiate the country’s external debt, a Cabinet minister said. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday told journalists in the capital that the meetings were specifically set up for…
LONDON – It has dawned on Zanu PF that its so-called resource nationalism has failed to produce expected results. Zanu PF had anticipated that over time its agrarian revolution would vivify Zimbabwe’s moribund economy. However, this has not happened or at least at the scale that it had anticipated. Fifteen years on, we have people…
HARARE – Of all the promises the Zanu PF government made during the 2013 election campaign, perhaps the one most supported is the pledge to reduce costly mandatory school fees. The new development blueprint ZimAsset emphasises that the education sector needs strengthening through a needs-driven system which would have strong scientific, vocational and technical bias…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has defended national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere in the face of demands that he steps down. Zanu PF spokesperson Psychology Maziwisa said Mugabe continues to have full confidence in Kasukuwere, after moves to oust him from power escalated. Kasukuwere is seen as a leading member of both the…
HARARE – Ousted Zanu PF Harare youth league chairperson Godwin Gomwe has applied for permission to appeal against his conviction for criminal insult. Gomwe was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, which was wholly suspended on condition that he performs 70 hours community service at Budiriro Primary School. His lawyers have lodged papers at the Court…
LONDON – Andy Murray suffered his earliest Grand Slam exit for five years as he lost a gruelling fourth-round contest against 15th seed Kevin Anderson. The South African won 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (7-0) in four hours and 18 minutes to reach a first major quarter-final, where he faces Stan Wawrinka. It is…
LONDON – Player wages have eaten up most of the money involved in international transfer deals during the past two years, according to Fifa TMS figures. Its Transfer Matching System (TMS) estimates that since 2013 some 57% of funds have gone into stars’ pockets. Actual transfer fees have accounted for just 41% of the cash,…
HARARE – In the first part of a series of interviews with Zimbabweans now living in the diaspora, our Assistant Editor, Maxwell Sibanda, this week spoke to former journalists now based overseas on their perspective to the political, social and economic events in Zimbabwe; what they hoped for. Henry Makiwa (former journalist with Daily News,…
KADOMA – Defending champion Isaac ‘‘Sugar” Chimuchenga was left seething with anger after losing his title to Champion Chienderamwano in the finals of the Mr Ironman held at the Odyssey Centre in Kadoma, on Saturday. In the countdown to the Kadoma finale, Sugar, a master of mind games had claimed he was running out of…
HARARE – Jamaican star Busy Signal is headed for the Harare International Carnival’s after party scheduled for October 31 at the Glamis Arena. The Jamaican dancehall reggae artist is popular in Zimbabwe and has had fans anticipating his debut show in the country. Some of his popular songs in the country include Watch Out for…
