ADDIS – Madagascar’s football chief Ahmad Ahmad has been elected president of the Confederation of African Football on Thursday, ousting veteran leader Issa Hayatou after 29 years in office. Ahmad won the election in the Ethiopian capital by 34 votes to Hayatou’s 20, official results showed. “When you try to do something, you mean that…
HARARE – Technology firm Univern Enterprises (Univern)’s stock continues to rise as it has been contracted by the Zimbabwean government to automate the country’s transport management systems, including vehicle registry and ensuring compliance with traffic laws. This also comes as the locally-owned company’s decade-old private public partnership with the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has…
HARARE – In a sensational claim — as Zanu PF’s deadly tribal, factional and succession wars continue to escalate — the party’s youth league says it no longer trusts many of President Robert Mugabe’s top lieutenants, who it claims want to topple the nonagenarian from power before the much-awaited 2018 national polls. Speaking in Bulawayo…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s ever-bumbling government is struggling to contain the rampant smuggling of imported basic consumer goods that it ill-advisedly banned last year, in a desperate bid to lower the country’s imports bill, shore up the State’s empty coffers and protect local manufacturers. In a stunning admission in Parliament last week, Industry and Commerce minister…
HARARE – Little-known Zimbabwe First (ZimFirst) party leader Maxwell Zeb Shumba has threatened to take legal action against Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo accusing them of “stealing” his party’s name. Mutasa and Gumbo’s opposition party — formed in 2016, way after Shumba’s — is named Zimbabwe People First (ZPF). In a March 9 letter, Shumba…
HARARE – The trial of the police officer who tried to swallow bribe cash after being busted kicked off yesterday, with a man who was used to deliver the trap money testifying that the accused reacted violently after realising that she had been cornered. Wilson Siwela, who is a conductor, attested that the cop —…
HARARE – There was drama in Parliament yesterday after Highfield West Zanu PF MP Psychology Maziwisa was accused of being gay by some MPs. The allegations were brought to the fore by Zanu PF Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba who rose on a point of order as Maziwisa had just finished probing Energy minister Samuel…
HARARE – Globetrotting President Robert Mugabe is yet to approve legislation authorising government to implement the 2017 National Budget. Already, the country’s 210-member National Assembly has since voted across the political divide to have the Finance Bill and the Appropriation (2017) Bill sent to Mugabe to be signed into law, practically unchanged from when Parliament…
HARARE – Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere’s witchcraft saga has taken a dramatic twist, with his son Mangwiza saying delays in hearing the case will result in more deaths at the hands of his father. Mangwiza accuses his father of bewitching and killing family members. His concerns come after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday deferred…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday ruled that popular television and radio personality Tichafa Matambanadzo had a case to answer as he dismissed an application filed for discharge at the close of his tax evasion case. Matambanadzo is being charged with contravening Section 182 of the Excise and Control Act after reportedly smuggling suits and…
