HARARE – Sungura musician Peter Moyo recently launched his DVD album titled Mabasa aMwari at Dandaro Inn in Harare where hundreds of his friends and fans packed the venue. At the end of the launch, Moyo should have been a happy man as the DVD album managed to raise more than $5 000 as his…
HARARE – Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai (pictured) has said he is still waiting for judgment for his 2002 presidential election petition. In 2002, President Robert Mugabe was pronounced winner of the presidential election in extremely controversial circumstances. Tsvangirai challenged the election results in 2002. However, the Zimbabwean High Court sat on…
BULAWAYO – The delay in the commencement of biometric voter registration is likely to compromise the quality and integrity of the new voters’ roll, a consortium of organisations running a new campaign, iVote2018, has said. As the country prepares for the new polling station-based and biometric voter registration for the 2018 harmonised elections, it is…
HARARE – Opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) president Joice Mujuru was left devastated when her Bikita West rally was cancelled so Zanu PF could hold its assembly. ZPF organised the event over the past month but was told by the police that they were cancelling her rally because of double-booking. They offered to rearrange the…
CHIMANIMANI – MDC women’s assembly chairperson Lynette Karenyi has slammed government for partisan food distribution. This comes after five of MDC supporters were briefly detained by police for protesting against the politicisation of aid. Karenyi said the five were arrested at Hot Springs Primary School on Monday after they grabbed a bag of maize each…
CHITUNGWIZA – Chitungwiza has started replacing water and sewer pipes in the dormitory town after accessing a $2,5 million loan from the Africa Development Bank (AfDB). Mayor Philip Mutoti said pipe replacement was overdue as the town was grappling with burst sewer pipes. Mutoti said the distribution network had not been refurbished since it was…
HARARE – The United States yesterday removed ZimRe Holdings Limited — a holding firm of companies in general insurance, life and pensions, and agro-industries — from the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) sanctions list. ZimRe — engaged reinsurance, reassurance, short term insurance and property — was barred from doing…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has come under fire for being “greedy” and failing to cede power to his deputies, with the nonagenarian travelling on official business at a time he is supposed to be resting. Mugabe — who is on his month-long annual holiday — has embarked on high-profile trips, spoiling himself with flying…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is to suspend customs duty on imports of raw wine until December 31, 2017, the government has announced. The excise duty exemption for manufacturers came into force on January 1, 2017, according to the latest Government Gazette. According to the schedule, only wine of an alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 14…
HARARE – Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister, Supa Mandiwanzira, has filed two lawsuits totalling a staggering $9 million against Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — publishers of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post. The lawsuits relate to two articles which appeared in ANZ’s flagship daily, the Daily News, last…
