HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed resources group Falcon Gold (Falgold) said it is planning to resume exploration works it had stopped last year due to the country’s worsening economic condition. The group’s executive chairman, Ian Saunders, said there were chances that Falgold could perform better in 2017. “Notwithstanding the fact that the group had previously…
HARARE – Disaffected war veterans who have been feuding with President Robert Mugabe since the parties’ highly publicised fall-out last year, are once again needling their former patron by throwing their weight behind the quest by opposition parties to establish a grand coalition ahead of next year’s eagerly-awaited national polls. This comes as former Vice…
HARARE – Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister, Martin Dinha, has made startling claims that senior Zanu PF officials and members of the military are looting the new $500 million government-funded Command Agriculture programme, which seeks to improve the country’s food security. The looting has echoes of a similar State-backed scheme — the Farm Mechanisation programme,…
BULAWAYO – As the country hurtles towards the crunch 2018 elections, the Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu fears that they will be a spike in incidents of violence as a rattled Zanu PF will once again use its old tactics to hang on to power. With opposition parties on the cusp of forming a coalition that is hoped…
HARARE – Outspoken Zanu PF activist and businessman Energy Mutodi says President Robert Mugabe will soon find himself standing alone if he continues protecting the generation 40 (G40) faction. He cited Mugabe’s much publicised fallout with former freedom fighters as a harbinger of worse things to come if he does not endear himself with those…
HARARE – Zimbabweans have high hopes on diminutive Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Khama Billiat who had a stellar season last year both in the South African Absa premiership and African continent. Billiat stands at the cusp of making history by becoming the first Zimbabwean to win the African Player of the Year — based in Africa…
BANGUL – President Yahya Jammeh says the West African community’s decision to send troops into The Gambia to force him to accept defeat in last month’s presidential election, is “a declaration of war”. Leaders from the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, deployed troops to The Gambia on Thursday after Jammeh said he…
KINSHASA – Joseph Kabila will step down as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo after elections held before the end of 2017, under a draft agreement reached by political parties, according to a lead mediator from the Catholic Church. Under the deal, reached on Friday but not yet signed, Kabila will be unable to…
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s success story for 2016 was the rise of actress Danai Gurira, the Zimbabwean girl who is making it big in Hollywood. Apart from her role as Michonne in the hit series The Walking Dead, Gurira landed a role in Tupac Shakur’s biopic, All Eyes on Me as his mother Afeni Shakur….
HARARE – As we celebrate the New Year in form of 2017, it is important to look back to what characterised last year. The year 2016 saw many artistes releasing new albums and these include sungura giant Alick Macheso, Leonard Zhakata, Jah Prayzah, Suluman Chimbetu, Winky D, Killer T, Freeman and Oliver Mtukudzi among others….
