HARARE – Former Premiership side Whawha drew 1-1 with Vumbachikwe and saw their advantage at the top of the Zifa Central Region Division One cut at the weekend, with Tongogara closing in. The result meant Tongogara moved to within two points of Luke Petros’ side having thumped Kwekwe Stars 0-3 away at Mbizo Stadium and…
HARARE – Preparations for Musica 2017 (Mussica), the annual music festival organised by the Embassy of Italy, are at an advanced stage and will be running under the theme: The world coming together in Zimbabwe, the high profile international event will run from October 4 to 7 at the new Italian Club in Chisipite and…
ACCRA – A new programme of free secondary school education has started in Ghana. This was a key campaign promise of President Nana Akufo-Addo who was elected last year. The 400,000 students entering secondary school this year will also receive free textbooks, meals and other benefits. The aim is to reduce the number of children…
PYONGYANG – The United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test. The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports – an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes. The US had originally proposed harsher sanctions including a…
HARARE – In an unprecedented move, President Robert Mugabe on Saturday revealed hitherto unknown goings-on in Zanu PF — telling thousands of party supporters who gathered in Bindura some of his party’s secrets which included Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s latest dossier he wants to use against Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo in the politburo anytime soon….
HARARE – Leaders of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) have vowed they will go to the ends of the earth to try and stop Zanu PF from its plans to depose them by causing election of a new leadership. This comes as First Lady Grace Mugabe and Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi on…
HARARE – Lawyers representing a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, have petitioned police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to take appropriate action against top detective Joseph Nemaisa, who is accused of severely assaulting their client during an unusual arrest at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts recently. Harare lawyer Jonathan Samukange said Nemaisa and his unnamed colleagues,…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe on Saturday revealed that President Robert Mugabe suffered from serious food poisoning that he thought he was going to die. Grace said Mugabe had diarrhoea for two weeks and was given medicine intravenously and could not rise from his bed. “He spent two weeks experiencing diarrhoea but we never…
HARARE – A Central Mechanical Engineering Department (CMED)-owned transport firm, Easy Go, has dragged several government ministries to court after they failed to pay various amounts of money for cars they hired from the firm. The latest ministries to be dragged before the High Court are Home Affairs and Local Government, which are under the…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe has pleaded with her detractors to stop smearing the image of President Robert Mugabe’s Alpha Omega Dairy (Pvt) Ltd saying it is negatively affecting business. The business came under the spotlight during a recent Zanu PF youth interface rally in Gwanda where claims emerged that the dairy’s ice creams…
