HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday postponed the trial of Zimbabwe Stock Exchange chief executive Alban Chirume, who laid counter charges of physical abuse against his lover Susan Mutangadura. The postponement was caused by a no-show by a State witness. Magistrate Nomsa Sabarauta postponed the case to February 15 for trial continuation. Chirume and Mutangadura,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has called off elections for the Women’s Football (ZWF) scheduled for March 5, to allow formalisation of the ZWF League. ZWF is one of the Zifa affiliates directed to hold fresh elections by the new board led by Philip Chiyangwa. There have been protracted power wrangles among ZWF national…
HARARE – Zifa Central Region Soccer League presidential aspirant Stanley Chapeta has put unlocking sponsorship as his main priority if elected as the region’s president at the elections set for March 6. Chapeta, a long-serving football administrator launched his manifesto at a colourful ceremony in Gweru on Saturday night where his main thrust was on…
HARARE – Unless local publishers and the line ministries responsible for arts and culture seriously consider investing in arts education, the idea of including it in the education curriculum would be a mammoth task, a celebrated author has said. Writer Virginia Phiri said the aforementioned — publishers and arts, culture ministries — are key to…
HARARE – Cottco Holdings Limited (Cottco) says government has started the resuscitation of the embattled cotton manufacturer through a special purpose vehicle set to assume the group’s $56 million debt. In a statement accompanying its unaudited financials for the half year ended September 30, 2015, Cottco said government was taking over all of the company’s…
HARARE – As Zanu PF’s seemingly-unstoppable factional and succession wars become more manic, the party petition aimed at ousting embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa from both his party and government positions has taken off. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News — which has consistently and accurately written about the ugly goings-on in the…
HARARE – Just as the specialist Labour Court did last year, the Supreme Court has now also dismissed fanciful claims by State media correspondent Geoffrey Nyarota that Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), publishers of the Daily News, employed and then dismissed him unfairly in 2010. The Supreme Court upheld an appeal by ANZ on Friday…
HARARE – Financial constraints have forced government to change the pay dates for civil servants, Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira has said, amid a furore among government workers. Police officers who used to get paid after teachers are now getting their salaries earlier. This comes amid complaints by some civil servants that government seemed to…
HARARE – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for a ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in Zimbabwe to prevent young people from starting to smoke. This comes amid damning new research claiming almost two in every 10 children aged between 13 and 15 in Zimbabwe were smoking in a shocking national…
HARARE – Masvingo opposition lawmakers have sledged President Robert Mugabe’s planned lavish birthday celebrations in the drought-torn province. Their governing party counterparts, however, said there was nothing wrong in Mugabe celebrating his 92nd birthday party in the province, even as the dry season leaves farmers in financial peril and amid a serious food security threat….
