HARARE – Zanu PF’s Young Turks, who are known as the Generation 40 (G40) group, demonstrated beyond doubt yesterday that they currently have the upper hand in their brutal ruling party slugfest with the faction linked to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. And very ominously for the Midlands godfather and his Zanu PF allies, Mugabe…
HARARE – Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday slammed belligerent Information permanent secretary George Charamba on ZiFM Stereo, after the commercial radio station that is owned by ICT minister Supa Mandiwanzira granted him a right of reply to Charamba’s invective of last week. In the explosive interview, Moyo panned Charamba roundly, suggesting that his former…
HARARE – Ex-Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings chief executive Happison Muchechetere’s prosecution for contravening the Procurement Act is set to resume after the Constitutional Court threw out his appeal challenging the criminal proceedings. Muchechetere withdrew the appeal yesterday after Deputy Chief Justice Luke Malaba, leading the Constitutional Court bench, ruled that the application was not filed in…
HARARE – Shorai Kudzai Muchemwa, who claims to be Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s daughter, is frantically trying to evict a white commercial farmer from a Goromonzi farm. The farmer, Martin Grobler has since filed an urgent chamber High Court application, seeking to stop the eviction. In the application, Grobler cited Muchemwa, Edwin Zimuto, and the…
HARARE – Zifa yesterday signed a landmark eight-year $100 million deal with Total Sports Marketing (TSM), a Bangladesh sports marketing agency, for the sponsorship, marketing rights and live television coverage of all of the mooted Robert Gabriel Mugabe Intercontinental soccer matches. The deal was inked by Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa and Moinul Haque Chowdury, the…
HARARE – Harare City coach Taurai Mangwiro believes his side is ready to kick-start their Caf Confederations Cup campaign. The Sunshine Boys will embark on their maiden African Safari journey with a home tie against AS Adema of Madagascar in the preliminary round at Rufaro Stadium on Saturday. City’s opponents — AS Adema — are…
HARARE – Auditions for Miss World Zimbabwe will commence on Friday and run for three days at the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel followed by those in Harare — which will take place from February 18-20 and February 25-27 at the Miss Zimbabwe Trust Head Offices in Highlands. Running under the theme, “Celebrating the Life of our…
HARARE – French Ambassador to Zimbabwe Laurent Delahousse says French investors are willing to increase the investments in the country following the introduction of new amendments to the Indigenisation Act. The envoy told the businessdaily at the unveiling of Total Zimbabwe’s state-of-the-art service station in Westgate recently that French companies were committed to Zimbabwe’s economic…
HARARE – Trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) is expected to remain depressed in the medium-term due to diminishing investor confidence and tight liquidity, a local research firm has said. Zimbabwe Economic Policy and Research Unit (Zeparu) executive director Gibson Chigumira said the stock market’s free-fall was expected to get worse as the year…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has made strides to enhance bilateral relations with Indonesia through increased trade between the two countries. Indonesia’s Foreign Affairs deputy minister Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir yesterday told delegates attending a business meeting in the capital there was need for direct contact between Zimbabwe and Indonesia. “I made this visit mainly to enhance bilateral…
