HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest platinum producer, Zimplats, says it targets to increase production by 47 percent to 280 000 ounces next year up from 190 000 ounces recorded in the 12 months to June 30, 2015. The group’s chief executive, Alex Mhembere, on Wednesday told analysts that the company had also concluded a power import…
HARARE – Work on the Harare-Beitbridge highway is expected to resume soon following the withdrawal of a two-year court case filed by Zimhighways Consortium (Zimhighways) against government. The $1,3 billion rehabilitation of the economically strategic highway was stopped in 2013 after the consortium dragged government to court for breach of contract. However, in a joint…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe is drawing her current political clout from her husband, power which will evaporate as soon as President Robert Mugabe is gone. Political and social commentators believe there will be a radical shift in power dynamics in the post-Mugabe era as power will naturally shift while Grace’s current boot-lickers will…
HARARE – The suggestion, surely, is not that those who die in very old age — Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower — were only a bit on the good side. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, died young. Whether he died good or bad, depends on you. The man was something of a womaniser. As the…
HARARE – As Zanu PF continues to be ravaged by its seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars — amidst Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown which is blamed on the ruling party’s misrule — a former close confidante to President Robert Mugabe, Didymus Mutasa, says the party will implode completely when the nonagenarian leaves office or dies. Speaking…
HARARE – One of the convicts accused of masterminding a foiled jail-break at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison yesterday accused the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services of giving inmates expired antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs. This emerged as the trial of incarcerated Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura, Blessing Chiduke, 25, Luckmore Matambanadzo, 39, Luck Mhungu,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is touted as having the most educated people in sub-Saharan Africa yet the country is so poor and lacks basic amenities that other countries enjoy, even those with more goats than people as Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo derisively described Botswana. If those degrees, professorships and other academic certificates that the likes…
BULAWAYO – Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa has said President Robert Mugabe does not seem to have a strategy for extricating the country from its parlous economic state. Briefing journalists at his party offices here yesterday in response to Mugabe’s recent State of the Nation Address (SONA), Dabengwa accused Mugabe of presiding over a dangerously unbalanced…
MUTARE – Old people, including 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe and a number of his colleagues, should seriously consider joining old people’s homes. These sentiments came out after a tour of old people’s homes in Mutare and Rusape. Nelson Langeveldt, 78, a former artisan who now resides at Zororai Old People’s Home, said there is no…
LAGOS – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has declared he has $150,000 (£100,000) in his personal account, in a move aimed at promoting transparency and curbing corruption in government. The amount showed that he had been living a “Spartan lifestyle”, his spokesman Garba Shehu said. Mr Buhari has five homes and two mud houses, as well…
