HARARE – Bulawayo giants Highlanders showed their rivals no seasonal cheer yesterday as they consolidated their position at the top of the Castle Premiership table with a win against a fighting ZPC Kariba at Barbourfields Stadium. On a weekend where their main rivals FC Platinum, Dynamos and CAPS United all registered victories, the game between…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s swimming sensation Kirsty Coventry added another feather to her illustrious cap in Johannesburg on Saturday night when she won the 2016 African Union Sport Council RASA Region5 Sportswoman of Year award. The Harare-born swimmer bagged the award ahead of South Africa’s cycling star Ashleigh Pasio Moolman and Mozambique’s athletics queen Edmilsa Governo….
BULAWAYO – While many may easily recognise the name Chiza from the popular Bulawayo-based prophet Blessing Chiza, his nephew Marsha, 18, has also managed to curve his own niche and made a name for himself on the international scene through his motivational writing and has become one of the few youngest authors and motivational speakers…
JOHANNESBURG – The Treasury has determined that President Jacob Zuma must pay back a little more than R7.8m for nonsecurity upgrades at his Nkandla home. This was according to the report by Treasury submitted to the Constitutional Court on Monday. “The reasonable percentage of the estimated costs of the five measures that the president would…
HARARE – Chinese investor, Beijing Pinchang, is set to inject $100 million to revive Kamativi Tin Mine which has been closed for almost 21 years, Mines deputy minister Fred Moyo has said. “Government entered into this agreement through Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and the parties have started working on the financial closure issue,” Moyo…
HARARE – The Energy ministry has been raiding parastatals under its control to sustain its expenditure as Treasury fails to cater for the Samuel Undenge-led ministry, it has emerged. Auditor and Comptroller General (AG) Mildred Chiri, in notes accompanying her appropriation accounts for the ministry for the year to December 2015, said over $1 million…
HARARE – Second-hand car imports into Zimbabwe have slumped 25 percent to $250 million in the first half of 2016 – from the $365 million recorded last year – on the back of high import duty tariffs and tight liquidity, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says. The data agency also noted that the country…
HARARE – Last week, Auditor-General, Mildred Chiri, once again exposed the sickening rot and malpractices in most public institutions and authorities. She presented shocking reports that divulged corruption and gross misgovernance in State-run institutions and local authorities. In her reports, Chiri exposed flagrant anomalies within local authorities — Harare, Gweru and Mutare councils among others….
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru, who hit the campaign trail a fortnight ago spreading the message of opposition unity, has charmed opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) head honcho, Tendai Biti — both of whom reiterate that they are more than ready to work with her. At the same time,…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF politburo member and ex-Energy minister, Dzikamai Mavhaire, savagely tore into President Robert Mugabe on Saturday, referring to the increasingly frail nonagenarian as a “spirit”. Addressing thousands of former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) supporters who gathered in Harare for her maiden rally in the capital, Mavhaire threw…
