HARARE – Angry war veterans have ratcheted up their worsening feud with President Robert Mugabe and alleged Generation 40 (G40) kingpin, Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo — provocatively telling Zimbabwe’s long-ruling leader that the hated late Rhodesian prime minister, Ian Douglas Smith, had been a more formidable adversary to them than the increasingly frail nonagenarian….
HARARE – Former Zanu PF secretary for administration and for decades a close confidante of President Robert Mugabe, Didymus Mutasa, says the increasingly frail nonagenarian must restore democracy within the warring ruling party by ditching its archaic one-centre of power principle if he is to redeem his and the former liberation movement’s damaged image. Speaking…
JOHANNESBURG – Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s beleaguered president, appeared to have won a fierce battle to remain in office as the ruling African National Congress concluded an intense and acrimonious three-day debate on whether he should stand down from the office he has held for seven years. Ministers and MPs who sit on the ANC’s…
RIO DE JANEIRO – A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia, officials say. Reports say there are six survivors. The plane reported electrical problems. The chartered aircraft, flying from Bolivia, was carrying members of the Chapecoense football team, airport…
HARARE – The introduction of bond notes has, without doubt, evoked the 2008 memories, as more and more people remain sceptical over the surrogate currency’s value and if it will last the distance, considering the profiteering mentality prevalent in Zimbabwe. It is government’s duty to put measures that will ensure that the currency is not…
HARARE – South Africa’s civil engineering and construction group, Esor, is seeking business opportunities in Zimbabwe to avert challenging market conditions in Africa’s largest economy that are not expected to abate in the short term. The group’s chief executive, Wessel van Zyl, last week said projects outside South Africa provide a foreign currency hedge, which…
HARARE – Veteran sungura artiste Nicholas “Madzibaba” Zakaria has roped in the services of his protégée Alick Macheso and Simon Mutambi on his forthcoming album. The project, which is Zakaria’s 27th studio album, is being recorded at Gramma Records and is still to be named. “Macheso is featuring on two tracks and Mutambi on one….
HARARE – Mashonaland East’s St Joseph Primary School are the champions of this year’s edition of Jikinya Dance Festival held in Masvingo on Friday. Mkhithika Thebe from Bulawayo were second-placed while Manicaland’s Rujeko and Maringire schools from Masvingo were on third and fourth positions respectively. The winning school pocketed $1 200, a trophy, medals for…
HARARE – Award-winning music star Selmor Mtukudzi is set to lead an awareness campaign on elephant conservation after her appointment as Big Five Ambassador by the Environment ministry. Selmor will be supported by Thembani Mubochwa, a fashion designer of the “Elephant Dress” fame, in this drive. They will start the campaign in January next year….
GWERU – Champions CAPS United captain Moses Muchenje has expressed gratitude to his teammates in the aftermath of the club winning its fifth league title on Saturday. The Green Machine needed an outright victory to be confirmed league champions going into the last match of the season against Chapungu at Ascot Stadium on Saturday. Lloyd…
