HARARE – South Africa underlined their dominance when they won the boys and girls categories at the BancABC Africa Junior Golf Team Championship at Royal Harare Golf Club yesterday. South Africa were the defending champions in the boys’ category while this was the first time the girls have been incorporated in this tournament. Led by…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s newly-launched National People’s Party (NPP) is struggling to get out of first gear — this coming hardly a month after she left the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party under a cloud, following her nasty public fallout with its founding fathers. But just as Mujuru was beginning to think…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government has imposed a new 10 percent tax on tobacco sales, prompting angry farmers to threaten to withhold their crops for the current marketing season. This comes as impoverished Zimbabweans are reeling from a wave of other additional taxes that the government has recently imposed on them, including the…
HARARE – With a mere three months of the new year gone, 2017 is already turning out to be yet another annus horribilis (horrible year) for former vice president and now leader of the floundering National People’s Party, Joice Mujuru. Indeed, it’s not just continuing to rain for Mujuru, it’s pouring on all fronts —…
HARARE – Villagers due to be evicted from Arnold Farm in Mazowe won an 11th-hour reprieve on Thursday after being granted an emergency injunction by the High Court restraining authorities from clearing their structures on the site. The farmers are being evicted from Arnold Farm to pave way for First Lady Grace Mugabe’s takeover. High…
HARARE – War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube was on Wednesday accused of falling asleep while the National Assembly discussed the use of spikes by police to deflate vehicle tyres in an attempt to stop motorists alleged to have committed traffic offences. Tshinga Dube, the Zanu PF MP for Makokoba, appeared to doze off on Wednesday afternoon…
HARARE- Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo’s has withdrawn his Supreme Court appeal in which he challenged his conviction on contempt of court. Chombo was slapped with a 90-day jail term after being found guilty following his failure to action a court order directing him to facilitate the release of $78 900 confiscated from Mutare businessman…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao has hailed the appointment of Justice Luke Malaba from public interviews conducted to fill the vacant post of Chief Justice, reflecting his uncle’s reduced authority under a constitution adopted three years ago. Under the old Constitution repealed in 2013, Mugabe had singular authority to pick the head…
