HARARE – A crippling strike is looming in the construction sector over failure by employers to increase salaries by three percent. This follows a March 27 agreement whereby the employers made an undertaking to increase salaries by three percent. Three months later, the adjustment is yet to be effected. The Zimbabwe Construction and Allied Trades…
BULAWAYO – Former National Healing minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu has come out guns blazing against former president Robert Mugabe’s nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, over what he termed misguided statements on the Gukurahundi atrocities. In a letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May, which he reproduced on his weekly blog last week, Zhuwao — who was among alleged…
HARARE – State-owned companies, Fidelity Printers and Printflow, have commenced the printing of ballot papers to be used during the forthcoming harmonised elections. Zimbabweans will on July 30 cast their votes in a watershed poll to choose a president, Members of Parliament, senators and councillors. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) said Fidelity…
HARARE – Eighteen years after the collapse of Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector in the wake of former President Robert Mugabe’s land grab programme, tobacco production has hit a record 207 million kg, with black farmers funded by private firms producing the highest volume ever produced in the post-land reform era. From 5 000 mostly white farmers…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest meat processor Colcom Foods has bowed down to public pressure and announced it is working on plans for alternative means of producing a pie that includes the aspects of the “original” pork pie but said it could take time. This comes as the formerly Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed meat processing company —…
HARARE – Two Harare men who allegedly defaced President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s campaign posters at a tuckshop in Epworth before replacing them with the campaign poster of an independent candidate appeared in court yesterday. Peter Bizare, 29, and Tatenda Kamutungunde, 25, of Cain Nkala Tembwe, were not asked to plead when they appeared before Harare magistrate…
HARARE – A Mbare man who allegedly forced himself on a hooker while his friend watched appeared in court yesterday. Stewart Manenji, 32, of Matapi Flats Mbare was advised to apply for bail at the High Court when he appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa. The complainant is a 27-year-old-woman residing at another block at…
HARARE – Epworth legislator Zalerah Makari has accused Zanu PF aspiring MP Kudakwashe Damson of intensifying intimidation tactics ahead of forthcoming elections. This comes as the Zimbabwe Peace Project yesterday noted “more cases of posters being torn being reported with the latest in Epworth, Damson supporters tearing Makari’s posters.” Until April, Makari was a Zanu…
HARARE – Australia broke a number of records on their way to an easy 100-run win over struggling hosts Zimbabwe in the ongoing Twenty20 triangular series yesterday. The Baggy Greens’ merciless skipper Aaron Finch led from the front with a career best 172 which is now the second highest individual score in T20 cricket just…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe returned home yesterday to face a torrent of allegations, inflamed by the recent bomb explosion that rocked the second city of Bulawayo on June 24, claiming two lives. [Adz]
