HARARE – A managing executive at PetroTrade (Pvt) Ltd who reportedly hired hitmen to murder an auditor who had been contracted by his employer in a bid to conceal $137 000 fraud was indicted for trial yesterday. Forbes Madzima, 46, of 16448 Damafalls in Ruwa, appeared before Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe. He will be in…
JOHANNESBURG – A Sky News journalist has spoken of how Zimbabwe officials held her and a cameraperson in a room for 12 hours this week, searching their phones and documents and refusing them access to a lawyer before they were finally deported. Alex Crawford, a British journalist who is currently based in South Africa, and…
CHIPINGE – Two MDC activists arrested during last Wednesday’s skirmishes during the nationwide protests have been freed on $200 bail each. MDC Chipinge youth chairperson Tendai Mahari and his organizing secretary Itai Marema were remanded to July 18 by magistrate Poterai Gwezhira. They are being charged with incitement of violence in contravention of section 187…
HARARE – Ahead of next week’s International Aids conference in Durban, South Africa, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria yesterday released results that show a significant increase in the number of people being treated for HIV. The results indicate that the Global Fund partnership had provided lifesaving HIV treatment to 9,2 million…
HARARE – Nesbitt Castle Bulawayo will host an event dubbed “Fashion Fights Cancer” that is being organised by Fashion Designers Expo Zimbabwe. According to the chief executive officer of Fashion Designers Expo Zimbabwe Aisha DeBeer, the event will feature various diverse performances including contemporary dance, fire show, chilling song performances, local house music, hip-hop dances,…
HARARE – Tomorrow ,Kadoma’s Railton Club will host the Mashonaland West leg of Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance competition that will feature 10 groups. The Mashonaland West competition will conclude the provincial finals of Zimbabwe’s most prestigious traditional dance competition. Dance groups that will compete in tomorrow’s contest are Rimuka Stars (Zambia Nyau or Gure), Tsitsa…
HARARE – PG Industries Zimbabwe (PG) is moving to sell about 8, 6 billion shares to an Indian investor for $500 000 as the group’s shareholders seek to divest from the struggling firm. PG scheme of arrangement chairperson Moses Chinhengo yesterday said the company’s shareholders were set to meet next month to discuss the disposal…
EDITOR — We have a deep-rooted fatuous notion among Zimbabweans that obtaining a university degree equals future economic success. Growing up, I was taught like most Zimbabwean children, that the key to success in life is to do well in high school, this in turn will guarantee acceptance to university. We were further programmed that…
HARARE – Events of the past few days have exposed how President Robert Mugabe’s incompetent and ham-fisted government is desperately clinging to power — in most cases by lying through their teeth. What is, however, clear in all this is that we are all fed up with this regime that has grown rogue and blames…
HARARE – The majority of the country’s cricketers have been starved of first class action as Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), like most companies continue to feel the financial burden. So when it was announced that a strong South African A team would play Zimbabwe A in two four-day matches, the announcement was met with mixed reviews….
