HARARE – The race for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) secretary-general post is not yet over, Tourism minister Walter Mzembi (pictured) said yesterday. Mzembi insists there is still a small window of opportunity for him to reclaim the post from Georgia’s Zurab Pololikashvili. “It’s not over yet,” he told a news conference in…
HARARE – High Court judge Justice David Mangota has dismissed with costs an application by the Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) seeking to be allowed to continue selling food on the streets of Harare. The application was after Harare City Council (HCC) and a ministerial taskforce banned the sale of cooked and…
HARARE – Government must set up special courts to deal with political violence ahead of the 2018 election, the Tendai Biti-led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said. This comes amid rising concern over inter and intra-party violence. It is also on the back of an attack of PDP’s youth secretary for defence and security Tarisai…
HARARE – Jailed Johanne Masowe Echishanu Budiriro sect leader Ishmael Chokurongerwa has lost his Nyabira farm in Zvimba in a long-running land dispute. Chokurongerwa was slapped with a five-year prison sentence in 2015 after his congregants severely assaulted police officers and journalists in 2014 at his Budiriro shrine. Nine families, who were residing at his…
HARARE – The case in which activist pastor Patrick Mugadza is charged for predicting that President Robert Mugabe would die in October this year has been referred to Zimbabwe’s highest court. Mugadza, a preacher in the tourist resort town of Kariba, told journalists in January that he had received a prophecy from God that Mugabe…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has a busy election calendar going into general elections mid next year. Thousands of Zimbabweans will seek elective office next year, running for municipal, legislative, and presidential posts. Few opposition parties have access to the financial resources needed to campaign, produce and air commercials. Even long-standing incumbents in legislative and municipal posts…
HARARE – National Social Security Authority (Nssa) will relinquish its controlling stake in Telecel Zimbabwe (TZ) to Zarnet after three years, following a recent agreement inked to this effect, it has emerged. The State-run pension fund’s general manager Elizabeth Chitiga on Friday said Nssa and Zarnet had agreed on the deal’s terms following negotiations to…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo’s first black mayor in post-independent Zimbabwe and former deputy president of the Senate Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu died in the early hours of yesterday. He was 86. A veteran member of PF-Zapu who was the liberation movement’s representative at the Lancaster House talks that ushered in independence in 1980, he has been described…
HARARE – Zimbabwean music star Jah Prayzah will hold two gigs in Canada at the beginning of July meant to celebrate the giant North American country’s 150th anniversary. The Jerusarema singer will kick off the tour of Canada in Toronto on Canada Day, July 1, after which he will perform in Edmonton the following day….
PRETORIA – South Africa’s embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in South African media. The reports suggest deepening ties between President Zuma and the controversial Gupta business family. But the president’s spokesman has dismissed them as an utter fabrication. Pressure on Mr Zuma has…
