HARARE – International farming implements manufacturer, Case IH, has showcased its full line of equipment at the biggest demonstration event ever held by a single company in Zimbabwe. The event – unprecedented in Zimbabwe for its scope, scale and execution – showed the value of advanced farming practices and the brand’s highly efficient equipment, and…
HARARE – There is widespread panic among both businesses and ordinary Zimbabweans alike, after President Robert Mugabe’s ever-floundering government ill-advisedly announced last Tuesday that it was working on “a plan” to use gold reserves to anchor the reintroduction of the much-derided Zim dollar. The poorly-conceived announcement came as the country is battling severe and worsening…
HARARE – Cleric Noah Pashapa yesterday became one of the few prominent local clergymen to repeat his open questioning of the claimed powers of Zimbabwe’s ubiquitous, self-styled prophets. His criticism comes after flamboyant preacher and founder of the Spirit Embassy church, Uebert Angel, was recently denied entry into Zambia. The charismatic Angel and his entourage…
HARARE – Future Zimbabwean governments should exhume undeserving persons buried at the National Heroes Acre to pave way for the likes of Simpson Mutambanengwe who was denied the honour by Zanu PF, former ruling party spokesperson and liberation war icon Rugare Gumbo has said. Mutambanengwe — one of the pioneers of the liberation struggle —…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru, who now leads the fledgling National People Party (NPP), yesterday said the opposition parties will hold primary elections to choose who will lead the planned grand coalition set to contest President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF in next year’s polls. Mujuru and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai last month…
HARARE – No love lost is an old adage too tiring to hear but which refuses to go in Zimbabwe’s polarised political theatre. There is MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, People’s Democratic Party front man Tendai Biti, newcomer Joice Mujuru and smaller MDC formation leader Welshman Ncube — their collective goal being to form a grand…
HARARE – Growing a full thick beard is no overnight experience, Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora will tell you that. But nursing facial fur until it becomes fully blown requires a certain degree of patience. It’s a kind of tolerance that has become the character of Dokora who has endured an avalanche of…
HARARE – Stripped of their executive powers, mayors in Zimbabwe are mere lame ducks and can only but watch as the powerful Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere meddle in their affairs replacing elected officials with commissions. And ahead of next year elections events in most councils are now following a familiar script, sparking fresh debate…
HARARE – As much as he is outspoken and daring to the point of poking the country’s feared authorities in the eye, activist cleric Patrick Mugadza is a lonely man who appears at his routine court hearings with no one to lend him any support, no family, no friend, or the evergreen civil society. While…
HARARE – At a time when most villagers are surviving from hand to mouth, the ruling Zanu PF party is reportedly forcing villagers to contribute towards transport to President Robert Mugabe’s rally next month in Marondera. Villagers from Hwedza told the Daily News on Sunday that they are being squeezed as they have no money…
