HARARE – Former WBC Silver welterweight champion Charles Manyuchi is hoping to unearth the next gem and help boxing develop in the country after officially launching his academy yesterday. The Charles Manyuchi Sports Academy will be a multi-purpose sporting facility and is being constructed on 4,5 hectares of land donated to him by the Chivhu…
HARARE – Government has promised to deal decisively with corruption, as it ups the ante in its fight against the scourge that has brought the country to its knees. Delivering his inaugural State-of-the-Nation Address (Sona) since his appointment as the country’s president last month, President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not mince his words yesterday, saying stern…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has filed a $2 million defamation suit against former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko. The suit pertains to statements made by Mphoko claiming Tsvangirai had participated in the murder of at least 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland during the Gukurahundi era. According to court papers filed on Monday before the…
HARARE – Owing to inordinate delays in the appointment of vice presidents, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who leaves for an investors’ meeting in South Africa today, could be forced to appoint a Cabinet minister to act in his absence. Unless the 75-year-old politician, who is also a qualified lawyer, appoints his deputies and swears them into…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday suspended four top officials for awarding themselves “fat cat” salaries above government-imposed caps. Acting town clerk Josephine Ncube, health services director Prosper Chonzi, finance director Tendai Kwenda and human capital director Cainos Chingombe were suspended after a special council meeting yesterday called to receive a report by the…
HARARE – The fall of long-serving former president Robert Mugabe temporarily united Zimbabweans from all walks of life but weeks after the dust has settled, it’s back to daggers being drawn between the ruling Zanu PF and opposition movements. And at the heart of the renewal of hostilities is the celebrated military intervention which ended…
HARARE – The country’s busiest land border at Beitbridge is “saturated” after a computer system outage caused confusion and chaos, with thousands of passengers queuing for hours and trucks stuck at the border crossing between South Africa and Zimbabwe. The other border crossing, Zambia and Zimbabwe’s new one-stop border post, which also handles trucks, is…
HARARE – The Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has reprimanded the Zimbabwe–South Africa (Zim-SA) Forum for illegally inviting and charging top-dollar to delegates wishing to attend a high-profile business conference that will be attended by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Pretoria today. This comes after a June meeting attended by Mnangagwa, then vice president, which was…
HARARE – A move to change the Apostolic Faith Mission of Zimbabwe (AFM) constitution to allow the church’s president Aspher Madziyire to continue leading for two more years after a scheduled December congress provoked angry scenes yesterday in which laity waved placards against their leader. Madziyire, 63, has led the AFM for 19 years. He…
MUTARE – Minister of State for Manicaland Monica Mutsvangwa, has warned that government is ‘‘digging deep’’ into the Chiadzwa diamond looting saga and arrests would certainly be made. Her threats are on the back of claims by former president Robert Mugabe that over $15 billion in diamonds money was looted. [GoogleAd] Mutsvangwa said President Emmerson…
