HARARE – Hwange Colliery Company Limited shareholders have ratified the coal miner’s excess borrowings of $150,3 million. The resolution was passed at the listed company’s annual general meeting last Friday. This comes as the heavily-indebted miner last month announced that it has been paying monthly instalments to its employee creditors since December, 2017, and will…
HARARE – A subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), has warned against by-passing and tempering of prepaid meters, giving offenders a two-month ultimatum to come forward and regularise their connections or face 10 years’ imprisonment. This comes on the back of a rise in the number of offenders who…
HARARE – Fans have called for the immediate resignation of the entire Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) board citing a number of grievances. The Zimbabwe Cricket Supporters Union (ZCSU)’s reasons for their disappointment range from maladministration, failure to develop the game, a shambolic domestic league, victimisation and blocking the formation of a players’ union. On Tuesday, ZCSU…
HARARE – An improved Zimbabwe cricket team crashed out of the ongoing Twenty20 triangular series after going down by seven wickets in their third match against Pakistan here yesterday. The hosts’ final round-robin match against Australia tomorrow will only be of academic interest as they can no longer make it into Sunday’s final. Yesterday, there…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has refuted claims circulating on social media about the reintroduction of the banished local unit. Social media sites such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter were awash with a document purportedly issued by RBZ announcing a comeback of the Zimbabwe dollar which was phased out due to hyperinflation….
HARARE – FC Platinum coach Norman Mapeza, pictured, is hoping his charges will maintain their momentum when the Castle Lager Premiership campaign resumes this weekend following a two-week break. The reigning champions went into the mid-season lay off six points clear at the top of the table with 44 points ahead of their nearest rivals…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close protection will be drastically tightened following a botched “attempted assassination” of the head of State at a rally in Bulawayo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has said. This comes as it emerges Mnangagwa’s protection was so defective that it dangerously increased the likelihood that a murder plan involving one or…
HARARE – In a surprising turn of events, the Tunisia Rugby Union (TRU) has unashamedly denounced the behaviour of the Sables players after they refused to take board in a “substandard hotel”. The Sables are scheduled to take on Tunisia in a 2018 Rugby Afrique Gold Cup match on Saturday. [Adz] The Zimbabwe rugby team…
HARARE – After maintaining their lead at the top of the Zifa Northern Region Division One at the weekend, Beta XI will be on the road when they face Banket United at Kuwadzana Stadium on Sunday. Beta XI currently enjoy a three-point lead at the top of the log with 34 points from 16 matches…
HARARE – The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba to urgently facilitate that all teachers recruited as polling officers are enabled to vote. In a letter addressed to Chigumba yesterday, Artuz president Obert Masaraure said some teachers would be deployed far away from the…
