HARARE – Despite pictures from Zimbabwe’s rich and famous that flood various social media networks very so often, a Research and Markets report titled The Africa 2016 Wealth Report claims that Zimbabweans are the poorest individuals in Africa with at least $200 wealth per person. The report, which stops at nothing to tell Zimbabwe’s few…
HARARE – He grew up experiencing every child’s nightmare, hardly ever had enough food on his plate and was in and out of school due to fees problems. But Mbare-raised Munyaradzi Gwatidzo, 32, promised himself it was not always going to be like that. Even as he watched his father walk out on the family…
BULAWAYO – Firebrand former war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda says the time has come for long-suffering Zimbabweans to dump President Robert Mugabe and his warring Zanu PF — sensationally likening the ruling party to “a house infested with lice”. Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Press Club on Thursday, Sibanda said Zanu PF had lost both…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader Joice Mujuru has called for a thorough investigation by the Chinese Communist Party’s graft-busting organ, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, into claims of widespread looting of Marange diamond revenue by Anjin Investments. Mujuru’s aide, Bright Matonga, told the Daily News yesterday that ZPF would engage the Chinese…
HARARE – The union that represents junior doctors has dramatically escalated its dispute with the government over new contracts by announcing an all-out strike, in which even emergency cover has been withdrawn. The decision has meant that junior doctors will for the first time not staff A&E (accident and emergency) units, intensive care, emergency surgery…
HARARE – The Welshman Ncube-led MDC has accused government of playing Russian roulette with the economy after government gave foreign businesses until April 1 to comply with controversial equity laws that compel them to cede majority stakes to locals or risk closure. Empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao told a news conference on Wednesday that foreign firms,…
MACHEKE – School-based HIV/Aids education programmes will now be conducted by teachers not health NGOs, the Primary and Secondary Education ministry has said. Government was moving to streamline HIV/Aids education from aid agencies who had overrun schools conducting school-based education as an intervention strategy for providing information on the disease to young people. The ministry…
BULAWAYO – The government has stoutly defended its human rights record, rejecting suggestions from Western countries that it uses torture and jails opponents — insisting its policies are guided by the rule of law. The discussion came in a newly-launched process called the “Universal Periodic Review,” (UPR), under which all members of the United Nations…
HARARE – The United States Embassy in Harare has announced the selection of 60 young Zimbabwean leaders who have been invited to participate in President Barack Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship Programme for Young African Leaders. Karen Kelley, the counsellor for Public Affairs at the embassy, said the participants were chosen through a highly competitive application…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has remained one of the most repressed economies in the world in the past decade due to rampant corruption and government mismanagement, according to the latest Index of Economic Freedom. The index — published annually by the Wall Street Journal and think tank the Heritage Foundation — judges economic freedom on four…
