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‘We are fed up, not afraid’

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HARARE – Large crowds thronged Harare’s central business district yesterday as increasingly restless Zimbabweans, including unemployed university graduates who are having to eke out a difficult living as street vendors, marched against the country’s dying economy and the government’s imminent introduction of bond notes to try and mitigate severe cash shortages. And as had been…

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War veterans remain defiant

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HARARE – War veterans have thrown down the gauntlet at President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF, scoffing at the government’s savage crackdown on their leadership which they say is akin to what the late Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith and his minority government did to blacks before Zimbabwe’s independence. The restless freedom fighters’ defiance comes…

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Mutodi lashes Chimene over Mnangagwa

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HARARE – Outspoken Zanu PF activist Energy Mutodi says plots by Manicaland provincial minister Mandi Chimene to put a wedge between Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and President Robert Mugabe are futile because the two are “inseparable”. Mutodi, who is viewed as a Mnangagwa sympathiser, said the duo — which has known each other for over…

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‘Don’t lose hope on Dzamara’

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HARARE – United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Harry Thomas has urged missing pro-democracy activist Itai Dzamara’s family not to give up. Dzamara — popular for his Occupy Africa Unity Square anti-President Robert Mugabe protests — has been missing for 17 months, after he was abducted. Thomas said the United States will stand by the family…

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‘Expelling pregnant students illegal’

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HARARE – Pregnant students must not be expelled from school but must instead be given time to give birth and continue with their studies, the Education ministry has said. Primary and Secondary Education ministry’s Harare province deputy director Joyce Maposa on Tuesday said “according to Zimbabwe’s Education Act, every child has a right to education…

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Sinosteel dumps Zimasco?

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HARARE – Zimasco (Private) Limited (Zimasco)’s revival prospects have continued to dim as the company has reportedly failed to secure a $7 million bailout from its major shareholder Sinosteel Africa Corporation (Sinosteel) to finance short-term operations. This also comes as the Midlands-based company’s judicial management process has been mired in fresh controversy amid revelations that it…

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Bond Notes: The people have spoken

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HARARE – The protests in Harare yesterday over the impending introduction of the much-hated bond notes is a clear sign of anger and frustration against the Zanu PF leadership and government for failing to listen to the electorate. While we understand that, through the introduction of bond notes in October, government hopes to end cash…

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Nssa unbundles

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HARARE – National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has unbundled its investment division into three units with separate managers to spearhead “reasonable” decisions and bring transparency, the authority’s chairman said. Nssa chairman Robin Vela yesterday said the division had been split into property, investments and special assets, as he finally announced the new Nssa substantive executive…

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NMBZ pushes for plastic money economy

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HARARE – NMBZ flagship arm, NMB Bank, has introduced a mobile application and other technologically-driven measures aimed at promoting the realisation of a cashless economy in Zimbabwe. The bank’s marketing manager Lindiwe Thebethebe said the introduction of modern technology was rendering cash payments and visits to banks largely unnecessary. “In many countries, these cashless means…

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Let’s embrace persecuted war vets

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HARARE – While war veterans have in the past committed despicable abuses in the process of defending President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF, political and social commentators feel those being persecuted now for challenging the regime should be given moral support. The commentators felt the arrested war veterans that include Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans…

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