HARARE – Parliament yesterday moved to have ex-State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson Charles Kuwaza arrested on charges of showing contempt for the august House. The parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy said Kuwaza had a case for contempt of Parliament to answer and his attitude constituted an attack on the dignity of the Zimbabwean…
HARARE – Flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo has been voted the number one most influential Ngoda Under-40 Achiever of the year, as the traditional finalists — in the form of clergymen — have not made it to the top 10. Although the criteria and timing of these awards remain a point of intense debate, property investor…
DAKAR – Senegalese leader Macky Sall said on Tuesday the country’s top court had rejected his proposal to cut his current presidential term by two years to five. Sall had proposed 15 reforms in all, including limiting presidential terms to two mandates and expanding the powers of the national assembly and the constitutional council. “On…
WASHINGTON – Republican Donald Trump will not be president because it’s a “serious job”, President Barack Obama has said. “I continue to believe that Mr Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people,” said Mr Obama. Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, is the…
HARARE – Veteran coach Sunday Chidzambwa has a few words of advice for his counterparts Joey Antipas and Taurai Mangwiro after their teams’ recent performances in African inter-club competitions. Antipas’ Chicken Inn were the toast of football-mad Zimbabweans after they defeated super-rich South African giants Mamelodi Sundowns 1-0 in the first leg of their African…
HARARE – Triathlon Zimbabwe (TZ), just like many sporting codes in the country, has been hit by severe talent-drain with many promising athletes relocating overseas in pursuit of better university education. This weekend, TZ hosts the Troutbeck ATU Triathlon African Cup at the Nyanga resort but sadly, as they have become used to in the…
HARARE – Ghanaian reggae star Blakk Rasta, 41, will be the star performer at the seventh edition of Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) to be held on February 25 at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). The 2009 winner of the National Award for Cultural Excellence (Ghana) broke onto the music scene with the album Rasta…
HARARE – The National Merit Awards (Nama) 2016 was quite a spectacle happening on the eve of Valentine’s Day and what a coincidence that the two men ruling the roast on the night, Jah Prayzah and Winky D came donning red — the colour of love. Winky D, who won the People’s Choice Award and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s government has defended high fuel prices obtaining in the country despite a significant decline in international oil prices by more than 70 percent in the last few months. Energy minister Samuel Undenge last week said the country uses “a unique” pricing model that is different from other countries and does not react…
HARARE – Chinese firm Ja Solar has won a contract to supply 100 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic modules to one of the first three large-scale ground-mounted solar power facilities in Zimbabwe. The projects will have a combined installed capacity of 300 MW and the three contractors for these projects are ZTE, China MCC17 Group and…
