HARARE – Listed hotelier Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) has grown its revenues by $1 million in the four months to April 2016 due to strong performance. RTG chief executive Tendai Madziwanyika yesterday told shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) in the capital that the hospitality group reduced its costs by $1,3 million in…
EDITOR — The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya and Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa have not been honest to the people of Zimbabwe on the true causes of the current cash crisis and the real motive behind the introduction of the questionable bond notes. It is shocking that it has taken a few…
HARARE – There is no denying the incredible job our Police Department has done in recent weeks in the apprehension of the fugitive kombi driver behind the death of a 17-year-old Harare Girls’ High School pupil Jocelyn Gomba. Wadzanayi Mabika, 41, ploughed into the school girl three weeks ago, before fatally dragging her body under…
HARARE – Fit-again opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is back with a bang and will lead from the front in the planned Mutare MDC demonstration next week — the party’s third major such mass action in as many months — against President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF’s misrule. Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, confirmed to the Daily…
HARARE – Economic experts have warned afresh that Zimbabwe’s economy is in dire straits and that authorities need to move with more urgency and vigour to mitigate the country’s plummeting fortunes. The warning comes in the wake of the country’s worsening liquidity and cash crises, the economy contracting precipitously, thousands of companies shutting down, unemployment…
HARARE – Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has appealed for $8 000 to help free 11 young activists who have been occupying Africa Unity Square on a 16-day protest against President Robert Mugabe’s regime. The activists are facing two counts of robbery and defeating the course of justice. Despite having been granted…
HARARE – The sexually-transmitted disease, gonorrhea, has become a drug-resistant “superbug” and doctors have been struggling to devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said. The disease, which involves inflammatory discharge from the urethra or vagina, has been added on to the list of infections, viruses and bacteria that have become…
HARARE – Zanu PF officials, led by deputy Industry and Commerce minister Chiratidzo Iris Mabuwa, have embarked on an ambitious business deal that could see the country receiving cars, trucks, agricultural and farming equipment from Japan. Mabuwa led a delegation of Zanu PF officials who included businesswoman Smelly Dube and Harare South legislator Shadreck Mashayamombe…
CAIRO – Wreckage of the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean last month has been found, Egyptian investigators say. A statement said “several main locations of the wreckage” had been identified. A deep sea search vessel had also sent back the first images of the wreckage, the statement added. There were 66 people…
BUJUMBURA – Nine schools are being investigated in eastern Burundi after photos of the president were defaced in text books. More than 230 pupils were suspended on Monday for refusing to own up to the defacement of 27 books at their school. Eleven students in other provinces are already being prosecuted for insulting the president…
