HARARE – The Constitutional Court will today hear details of the legal challenge to government’s decision to bar expatriate Zimbabweans from voting from their foreign bases in the forthcoming key 2018 vote. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will hear that a judicial review application lodged over whether government has the power to bar Zimbabweans not resident…
MUTARE – Use of fast-growing exotic trees has lifted the burden off indigenous trees in tobacco curing which is responsible for 20 percent of over 350 000 hectare annual vegetation loss that has been increasingly threatening the nation’s biodiversity. Pine trees, abundant in Manicaland, are expected to ease burden on the slow-regenerating Miombo Forests —…
MUTARE – For all its magnificence, Christmas Pass is an engineering mistake that transformed Mutare into a pit-trap. Heavy vehicle mechanical faults — particularly brake failures, are always conspiring devilishly with the human instinct for self-preservation such that drivers are manoeuvring their wheeled missiles down the five-kilometre road into the heavily populated city centre. The…
MUTARE – As wrangling between conservationists and villagers over why the perimeter fence around Save Valley Conservancy (SVC) no longer exists, the human-wildlife conflict along the nature reserve is taking a huge toll on Chipinge’s rural agricultural economy. Beyond loss of livestock and crops, lives are being lost with the conflicts dragging despairingly into an…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) registered 64 670 new voters in the first five days of a mop-up exercise that opened on January 10, bringing the cumulative total of people registered to vote in this year’s election to about five million. The mop-up exercise was necessitated by low turnout in some provinces and…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has counselled his impatient lieutenants who are already looking beyond him that he is still in charge and that his successor will only come through proper party processes. Speaking through his spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, Tsvangirai who is expected home this week from South Africa where he had gone for…
HARARE – The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy is putting pressure on government to implement the moribund Gwanda solar energy project with haste, throwing the spotlight on flamboyant businessmen Wicknell Chivayo once more. Chivayo was awarded a $200 million tender to roll out the project which will feed into the national grid to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe suffered their first defeat at the ongoing ICC Under 19 World Cup yesterday going down to Australia by seven wickets further complicating the side’s chances of a quarter-final berth. After being asked to bat first, Zimbabwe fell for 134 runs inside 33.2 overs before the young Aussies breezed past the locals target in…
HARARE – For close to three seasons now, Raphael Manuvire turned down the overtures of Dynamos’ advances, who had been trying so hard to bring him to their dressing room. DeMbare have always linked with the former Douglas Warriors and Mwana Africa playmaker for the last two seasons but the move never materialised. The closest Manuvire…
HARARE – Triangle coach Taurai Mangwiro is hoping to conclude more transfers during this transfer window in order to bolster the side ahead of the start of the 2018 Castle Lager Premiership season. The Sugar Sugar Boys finished last season in ninth place with 45 points and at times flirted with relegation which they would…
