HARARE – At least one million people — including youth and children — are now on anti-retroviral treatment (Art) in Zimbabwe, up from around 800 000 a year ago, latest statistics have revealed. Zimbabwe — a largely Christian country with a 13 million-plus population — is among the countries in sub-Saharan Africa worst affected by…
HARARE – An MDC activist accused of murdering a cop at the party’s Harvest House headquarters has disputed a further assault charge saying police officers fabricated the case to nail him. Barnabas Mwanaka is being charged with obstruction of justice or alternatively assault before Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba. He allegedly slapped a cop in a…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged Rwandan refugees to return home to vote in presidential elections this week. Mnangagwa re-affirmed the United Nations’ call to repatriate Rwandese who fled to Zimbabwe, saying the troubled nation was now “safe”. Rwanda has made a dramatic economic recovery in the two decades since 800 000 ethnic…
HARARE – Chivi Rural District Council chairperson Killer Zivhu was off-side when he announced that there was no going back on the campaign by the Association of District Councils of Zimbabwe (ADCZ) to mobilise 2,3 million votes for President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF in the 2018 elections. Zivhu was speaking this week at a…
HARARE – During the Mashonaland West youth interface rally last Saturday, Mugabe ordered the reinstatement of around 2 000 youth and gender officers who had been struck off the government payroll — as part of austerity measures — ostensibly because Cabinet had not sanctioned the move. For a government struggling to pay its workforce on…
EDITOR — Following a clear defeat at the hands of Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008, President Robert Mugabe withheld the announcement of results as he planned a way of robbing Zimbabweans of sweet victory and force himself back onto the people of Zimbabwe. The alleged strategy involved misrepresenting the results to allow a re-run of the…
HARARE – Zimbabwean banks have made $100,59 million profit in the half year to June 30, 2017, representing an increase of 47,99 percent from $67,97 million reported in corresponding period last year, the central bank has said. Presenting his mid-term monetary policy statement yesterday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya said despite the…
HARARE – Congolese star Koffi Olomide has invited controversial local dancer Beverly “Bev” Sibanda to feature on a video he is currently making. The Sexy Angels boss left the country on Tuesday for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is expected back in the country tomorrow. According to Hapaguti “Harpers” Mapimhidze, who manages the…
HARARE – Music superstar and Unicef Goodwill Ambassador Oliver Mtukudzi will headline this year’s edition of the annual Gwanda Gospel Festival (GGF) which will run from September 1 to 3. The 64-year-old musician, who will celebrate his 65th birthday in September, will share the stage with artistes such as Zimpraise, Mahendera Brothers, Mbungo Stars, Tolakele…
HARARE – Jamaican reggae and dancehall artiste Turbulence whose last tour of Zimbabwe in April was a big flop, is returning to the country on October 14 to grace Seh Calaz’s birthday bash to be held at Mbare Netball Complex. Turbulence confirmed his return to Zimbabwe through a video posted on social media. ‘Let’s talk…
