HARARE – Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board chairperson Monica Chinamasa on Tuesday said Zimbabwe is likely to register a 20 percent decline in the golden leaf production this year due to the El Nino effect. This means that the country’s tobacco production which reached a peak of 210 million kilogrammes (kg) in 2014 is on…
HARARE – The High Court yesterday threw out with costs Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s $50 million defamation claim against Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — the publishers of the market-leading Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the WeekendPost. Justice Joseph Musakwa dismissed Mphoko’s lawsuit following an application by ANZ lawyer Alec Muchadehama to…
HARARE – Still reeling from the damaging breakaway from within its ranks of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her supporters, President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF is facing yet another bitter split — this time involving party members loyal to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This also comes as the stage is set for…
HARARE – The Zanu PF faction backing embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential ambitions has apparently gone berserk in the Midlands — as the ruling party’s deadly factional and succession wars continue to escalate. Interim Midlands chairperson Tapiwa Matangaidze told the Daily News yesterday that since many of Mnangagwa’s top lieutenants were booted out…
HARARE – Government yesterday threatened to shut down foreign-owned firms that do not comply with its indigenisation law by April 1. “Cabinet has directed that on April 1 all line ministers invoke Section 5 of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act Chapter 14:33 and act against all non-compliant businesses in their sectors,” Empowerment minister Patrick…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Army has rejected claims by a corporal accused of attempting to bomb Alpha Omega Dairies that he was on an official spying mission. This was revealed by investigating officer Nyambo Viera during the ongoing trial of Borman Ngwenya who appeared before Harare regional magistrate Fadzai Mthombeni. Ngwenya, 30, had claimed…
BULAWAYO – The Justice minister is not intimidating anyone against openly speaking about the Gukurahundi atrocities but will not hesitate to actively act upon falsehoods, a senior official said yesterday. The permanent secretary in the Justice ministry, Virginia Mabhiza, said yesterday the ministry was concerned about statements that continued to be “wrongly attributed” to Vice…
HARARE – Many recall how Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ad nauseum ad infinitum claimed there have been break-ins at his offices — five times to be precise. The dodgy break-ins at the party and State offices of the former security chief with strong ties to the military and intelligence apparatus, genuinely raised alarm initially,…
MAPUTO – Two pieces of debris found in Mozambique are “highly likely” to be wreckage from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Australian officials made the announcement Thursday following the completion of the examination of the two pieces. “The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,” said Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport…
HARARE – Warriors defender Erick Chipeta is confident they can register back-to-back victories over Swaziland in the forthcoming 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) Group L qualifiers. The Warriors will plunge into battle with the Group L leaders first in Mbabane at the Somhlolo National Stadium on Good Friday. Both sides do not have any…
