JOHANNESBURG – In the absence of regular captain Siphiwe Tshabalala, our own Willard Katsande has been given the armband to lead Mzansi’s biggest supported side, Kaizer Chiefs. I have always said in the past that I am a big fan of Katsande’s abrasive type of play which has earned him demi-god status with the Soweto…
HARARE – Only seven days before the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) elections there is still rancour in the women’s game due to a leadership crisis. As we report in sports section of this edition of our paper, there are two rival leadership factions, a situation which has paralysed the women’s game. [GoogleAd] The uncertainty is…
HARARE – With Zanu PF’s seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars continuing to rip both the ruling party and the country apart, one of President Robert Mugabe’s long time friends and comrade, Cephas Msipa, has urged him to groom a successor to put Zimbabwe on a stronger footing. Writing in his explosive book titled: In…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s 2016 National Budget is a “damp squib” that will make things “very tough” for public services, and reflects the cluelessness and incompetence blighting the Zanu PF government, opposition parties said yesterday. Presenting his budget to MPs on Thursday, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa claimed there will be faster economic growth of 2,7 percent…
HARARE – The United Nations (UN) is contributing more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe over the next five years, making it one of the largest donors. [GoogleAd] The $1,6 billion, under the Zimbabwe UN Development Assistance Framework (Zundaf) 2016-2020, will help provide food and nutrition, security, gender equality, HIV and Aids interventions,…
HARARE – Zimbabwean policymakers have revealed plans to pump $6 million worth of bond coins into the national economy, triggering widespread cheer. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya introduced the new “bond coins” in December last year. They are named after a $50 million bond that was floated to mint and import them from…
HARARE – The cash-strapped government will in January stop paying salaries for teachers employed at trust schools, Zimbabwe’s finance minister has said. Presenting his 2016 National Budget to a joint sitting of Parliament in the National Assembly on Thursday, Treasury chief Patrick Chinamasa said: “Government will cease to be responsible for paying salaries for teachers…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa made a surprise appearance in public on Thursday evening at the launch of veteran nationalist and former Midlands Provincial Governor Cephas Msipa’s book In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice: A Memoir in Harare on Thursday evening. [GoogleAd] Mutasa, who was fired, along with former Vice President Joice…
HARARE – Zimbabwe should do more for its people given that its leaders are aware of what it meant to be deprived freedom, former Zanu PF politburo member and ex-Governor for the Midlands Province Cephas Msipa has said. Msipa, undoubtedly one of the country’s elderly politicians, who enjoyed a decades-long friendship with President Robert Mugabe,…
HARARE – Peace Security Company (Private) Limited (Peace Security) has filed a $186 000 High Court lawsuit demanding the cash from Pioneer Transport (Private) Limited (Pioneer Transport). The two parties entered into an agreement in November 2008 for Peace Security, formerly known as Comburry Investments (Private) Limited, to provide security services to Pioneer Transport (Private)…
