HARARE – Caledonia Mining Corporation (Caledonia) says gold production at its Zimbabwe operations increased by 10,6 percent to 11 518 ounces during the last quarter of 2015. The Toronto Stock Exchange-listed resources company owns 49 percent in Gwanda-based Blanket Mine. The group’s chief executive, Steve Curtis, yesterday said total 2015 gold production was approximately 42…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is still far from respecting its own Constitution as demonstrated by the heavy-handed methods police used when they dispersed peaceful demonstrators on Monday, rights groups said yesterday. In statements, rights and democracy organisations in Zimbabwe castigated the continued “disregard of the Constitution” by the Zimbabwe Republic Police, after they bashed and arrested…
HARARE – Political tension is rising in Zimbabwe, with some parts of the country being rocked by intermittent violence, riots and strikes — amid revelations yesterday that leading opposition players are ratcheting up their plans to either impeach President Robert Mugabe or force an early general election. Harare and its dormitory town of Chitungwiza have…
HARARE – It appears as if it never rains but pours for embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF allies, with one of his alleged key lieutenants being roughed up by party youths opposed to the Midlands godfather at a funeral at the weekend. Former Zanu PF Mashonaland Central youth league chairperson Godfrey Tsenengamu confirmed…
HARARE – In a move that has left many in the media industry dumbstruck, Parliament of Zimbabwe is demanding that journalists who intend to cover this year’s sessions of the legislature undergo security vetting, including a police clearance. This new requirement, which was described by media stakeholders as “disrespectful”, is contained in a letter from…
HARARE – Outspoken anti-Mugabe demonstrator and Kariba-based pastor Patrick Mugadza, who recently was released from prison, says churchmen should speak out against injustices taking place in the country. At a press conference yesterday Mugadza, who spent 18 days in a Victoria Falls prison after staging a demonstration against President Robert Mugabe last year during a…
HARARE – A gang leader of armed robbers who broke into a workshop and stole wheels from Police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri’s Mercedes Benz in Chitungwiza was slapped with a one-year jail term yesterday. Aaron Nyamajiwa was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo before one year was suspended on condition of good…
LAGOS – Former Nigerian defence minister Bello Haliru Mohammed has been charged with money laundering. He is accused along with his son, Bello Abba Mohammed, of diverting $1.5m (£1m) that was meant to buy arms for soldiers fighting Islamist Boko Haram militants. The two men have pleaded not guilty. President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office…
HARARE – Post-congress Zanu PF insiders say many of the party’s structures are in turmoil amid reports that former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s yet-to-be launched People First outfit is vigorously “fishing” for members from among their ranks. Following her expulsion from both the government and the warring ruling party on untested allegations of plotting to…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe recently described former Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo (RG) as a traitor. The Daily News caught up with the former Dare Rechimurenga supremo to discuss this and recent developments in the country. Below are excerpts of an interview with our Chief Writer, Fungi Kwaramba (FK). FK: I understand President Mugabe and…
