HARARE – Joseph Chinotimba says axed War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa must “shut up” and “accept his fate”. The Buhera South Zanu PF MP gave the cheeky advice after being door-stopped by journalists after the aborted National Assembly debate yesterday. Mutsvangwa was fired last week after serving as a Cabinet minister for only one year,…
HARARE – Two workers unions yesterday blasted government’s take over of all Zimbabwe’s diamond operations saying the move violates workers’ rights. Mines minister Walter Chidakwa recently ordered all mining companies in Chiadzwa to stop mining but claimed government was not seizing the mines. President Robert Mugabe has said his government was seizing the diamond operations…
HARARE – The European owners of one of Zimbabwe’s prime and undeveloped platinum resources have reportedly appointed Sebastian Buchte – an executive who has been arrested and deported from South Africa (SA) – to head its African operations. ERG LLP, a Luxembourg-based natural resources company partly owning Bougai Platinum Mine along the Great Dyke, also…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s botched trip to an insignificant cultural festival in India earlier this week continues to raise dust, with political opponents ganging up on the increasingly frail nonagenarian and calling on him to call it quits in his own interest, that of his family and the nation. The ever globe-trotting 92-year-old was…
HARARE – Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — the publisher of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post — has pooh-poohed State media reports that the company has failed to defend a $50 million lawsuit that was launched against it by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko last year. ANZ Group Editor…
HARARE – Stigma and discrimination of female offenders is higher as compared to their male counterparts, a government official said at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison yesterday. Provincial development officer in the ministry of Gender Ernest Chimboza was speaking during commemorations to mark International Women’s Day at the high-security prison. He said society was most harsh…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) said yesterday it has started staging rallies to pile pressure on President Robert Mugabe and his beleaguered Zanu PF party ahead of the 2018 vote. Joice Mujuru, who was Mugabe’s deputy for 10 years and touted as a likely heir until she got fired in 2014 on untested allegations…
HARARE – Bikita West Zanu PF legislator Munyaradzi Kereke’s rape trial was yesterday postponed to April 4, after the private prosecutor failed to pitch up ostensibly because he fell sick. Kereke, 43, is being charged with indecent assault and rape after he allegedly sexually molested his wife’s two nieces. Charles Warara sent a letter to…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai celebrated his 64th birthday yesterday in a private ceremony that sharply contrasted with the lavish 92nd birthday bash thrown by President Robert Mugabe in the drought-torn Masvingo Province. Tsvangirai has led the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) since it was formed in 1999 to challenge Mugabe — the sole…
HARARE – Today is World Kidney Day and the day was launched in 2006 by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) with the aim of creating a global awareness campaign on the importance of our kidneys. It is celebrated annually on the 2nd Thursday in March. This…
