HARARE – Zimbabwe’s tobacco exports have increased by 190 percent to 21,1 million kilogrammes (kg) in the first two weeks of 2016 fetching $161 million compared to 7,3 million kg sold in the same period last year, latest figures show. The latest data from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) comes at a time…
HARARE – Although schools opened this last week, it is saddening to note that most children some days into a new term are not even going to school because their parents are just too broke to pay their tuition fees. And this is all the more frustrating considering that it is only the poor who…
HARARE – Paying civil servants their 2015 bonuses is not a priority for government right now, Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira said yesterday. The Zanu PF legislator’s remarks also come as Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo recently said bonuses — for all workers — were not an entitlement for as long as productivity was low…
HARARE – The opposition has slammed plans to throw an $800 000 92nd birthday bash for President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe turns 92 on February 21. The ruling Zanu PF is holding what is expected to be one of its biggest celebrations for the latest anniversary of its ruling party’s creation, an attention-grabbing event that is…
HARARE – A prominent Harare lawyer has sensationally claimed that President Robert Mugabe’s late younger sister Sabina did not deserve national heroine status. A single, former seamstress with little formal education, Sabina succumbed to an unknown ailment in July 2010, and critics say she is proof of how Mugabe looked after his own after he…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange chief executive Alban Dhladhla Chirume yesterday laid counter charges of physical abuse against his estranged wife Susan Mutangadura, the chairperson of the Institute of Directors Zimbabwe (IoDZ). Chirume and Mutangadura’s domestic dispute spilled into the courts after a clash at their Borrowdale home in which the IDZ boss accused her…
CHARSADDA – Militants raided a university in northwest Pakistan, timing their attack to a ceremony at the school to ensure maximum casualties. As security forces combed the campus block by block after the massacre Wednesday, they counted the bodies of at least 21 students. Four militants were also killed, said army spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim…
DAVOS – Global chief executives are more pessimistic about growth than this time last year, according to a survey. Only 27% of interviewees thought growth would improve, against 37% in 2015, the report by consultants PwC showed. Business leaders are increasingly worried about geopolitical risks, as well as China’s economic slowdown and the falling oil…
LONDON – Donald Trump is used to being the one doing the tough talk. But on Monday the Republican presidential hopeful was on the receiving end of the harsh words — with no opportunity of rebuttal — as British MPs made their disdain for him clear during a parliamentary debate on whether to ban him…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Warriors will be looking for a positive result when they begin their African Nations Championships (Chan) campaign with a Group D clash against neighbours Zambia this afternoon at the Umuganda Stadium in Rubavu, Rwanda. The Warriors, who left for Rwanda on Saturday, settled for fourth place in the last campaign in South…
