HARARE – Zimbabwe has started mobilising resources for the establishment of a commercial court to deal with rising corporate and white-collar crimes in the country, it has emerged. The deputy chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Ray Ndhlukula on Thursday told delegates at an Ease of Doing Business workshop in the capital that the…
HARARE – National football team coach, Calisto Pasuwa and his entire technical team were last night sensationally relieved of their duties by the new Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board headed by newly-elected president, Philip Chiyangwa. Circumstances around the reasons they were fired ahead of the Warriors’ African Nations Championship (Chan) were not available at the…
HARARE – Some people spend a lifetime searching for the meaning of beauty, but for Helen Costa the answer has always been in her mettle in a male-dominated sport — bodybuilding. The reigning Ms Universe Figure Costa was on Wednesday night crowned Zimbabwe’s Sportsperson of the Year at the Annual Nationals Sports Awards dinner gala…
HARARE – The 2015 Annual National Sports Awards (Ansa) degenerated into further controversy yesterday after it emerged Helen Costa took home a trophy monogrammed ‘2015 Sportsperson of the Year Charles Manyuchi’. The Ms Universe Figure Hellen Costa had been crowned Sportsperson of the Year at the contentious awards ceremony held on Wednesday night in the…
KIGALI – Rwandans are voting in a referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow President Paul Kagame to seek a third term in office. Most voters, some 6.4 million, are eligible to vote on Friday, but around 37,000 Rwandans living overseas were able to have their say on Thursday. The change would allow Mr Kagame…
HARARE – Micro-finance institution GetBucks Zimbabwe (GetBucks) says its intention to list on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange through an Initial Public Offer (IPO) is aimed at restoring and building confidence on the local bourse. The company’s nonexecutive director, George Manyere, told stakeholders attending a GetBucks breakfast meeting in the capital yesterday that there was…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has reduced the number of days it takes to register a company from 91 to 30 days as the country moves to improve the its ease of Doing Business environment, a government official has said. The permanent secretary for Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Virginia Mabhiza, yesterday told delegates at an Ease…
HARARE – It could be said without contradiction that we have witnessed our own violence: 20 000 killed in one incident alone. There had been no official war declared between the combatants — just stupid, unaccountable fury. In other countries, it had occurred in Parliament. MPs, dressed in their something-hundred-dollar suits, would pull out their…
HARARE – War veterans are standing by their embattled leader, Christopher Mutsvangwa, effectively setting themselves up on a warpath with the leadership of President Robert Mugabe’s warring post-congress Zanu PF. Mutsvangwa — the chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA), and a close ally of under-fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa — was…
BULAWAYO – The factional and succession wars ravaging the post-congress Zanu PF have now turned into a circus here, with the under-fire Generation 40 (G40) camp yesterday counter-suspending Bulawayo provincial youth chairperson Khumbulani Mpofu who led the purges of their allies earlier this week. Mpofu and other youth executive members aligned to embattled Vice President…
