HARARE – Residents must push for the realisation of their right to water, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said. This comes as residents frequently go for days without the precious commodity in most cities and towns countrywide. Speaking at a water summit organised by Act Alliance last week, ZLHR’s counsel, Belinda Chinowawa,…
HARARE – Health minister David Parirenyatwa has backed government’s plans to amend the law to allow doctors to advertise, arguing the move will make the people alive to specialist services available in the country. This comes as scores of desperate Zimbabweans have been flocking overseas, particularly India, to get specialist medical attention. As a part…
HARARE – Suspended Mashonaland Holdings chief executive Manfred Mahari, who is being accused of defaulting on maintenance payments of $31 000 for his three children, has applied for exception to the charges arguing they are vague. Mahari appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande last week, with the case postponed to August 16 to allow prosecutor…
HARARE – Opposition parties have slammed government’s plans to construct a $1 billion state-of-the-art university named after President Robert Mugabe. The parties argued that the learning facility — to be owned by the Robert Mugabe Foundation (RMF) — is a waste and misuse of taxpayer’s money at the First Family’s benefit. “The MDC is deeply…
HARARE – Renowned Zimbabwean academic, writer and former envoy George Kahari has been offered an Honorary Professorship of Education by the Appointments Board of the International Biographical Centre (IBC) of Cambridge, England. In a notification letter to Kahari, IBC director-general Nicholas Law said: “Only a very select few are to be honoured in this way…
HARARE – The twists and turns around President Robert Mugabe’s succession have come at a huge cost to the country’s economy because of its disruptive effects on government business. It’s a subject that has also strained relations in his Zanu PF party, ahead of crucial elections next year. In this Question and Answer, our news…
HARARE – The “Rainbow Nation”, as South Africa is affectionately known, recently left their northern neighbours in Zimbabwe green with envy when that country’s highest court ruled their legislators could cast secret ballots in a confidence vote against President Jacob Zuma, whose second term at the helm ends in December. On August 8, the South…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed agro-industrial concern, Border Timbers, is set to make its debut on the Central Securities Depository (CSD) next week. The CSD system maintains securities in electronic format in investors’ accounts, allowing their transfer from one party to the other through an automated book entry. Border Timbers — which is under judicial…
HARARE – First Mutual Life Holdings Limited (FMHL) last week announced plans to pursue a rights offer to raise $17,25 million, the businessdaily can report. The implementation of the rights offer will depend on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed FMLH shareholders who are expected to approve the transaction at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to be…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke says indications from the last Harare International Carnival show that both women and men are equally interested in half-clad Samba girls. The Harare International Carnival is organised by ZTA as part of efforts to attract tourists to Zimbabwe’s capital city. According to Kaseke, research…
