HARARE – Zanu has gone into an overdrive to legitimise its contested poll victory by roping in fringe opposition parties to endorse the outcome of the just-ended elections. President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa won the July 30 presidential election with 50,8 percent of the votes cast, against his nearest contender, Nelson Chamisa of the MDC Alliance’s 44,3…
HARARE – Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) has managed to ramp up its gold production at the back of support from agents, including Suzan General Trading (Suzan), documents show. This also comes as the country’s yellow metal output – for the first seven months to July – has risen to nearly 21 tonnes and the…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is set to scuttle president-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inauguration, which had been scheduled for Sunday. This follows an announcement by his lawyer Thabani Mpofu yesterday that the Alliance would be filing a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) application before the expiry of a seven-day deadline within which all electoral challenges must…
HARARE – South African cement producer, PPC’s local unit says imports remained low for the year ended March 31, 2018 while exports improved slightly after a strategic initiative to generate foreign currency to support operations. The group, yesterday, said liquidity issues could offset the benefit of its performance as no dividends can be repatriated to…
HARARE – Local lobby group Buy Zimbabwe is calling on the new administration to focus on the country’s economic turnaround by addressing the huge import bill, the three tier pricing system and putting into effect the local content policy. “Now that the elections have come and gone, it’s time for business, not as usual. Buy…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is expected to experience rising income levels in the near future leading to a rise in consumer spending due to a rebound in the economy, a local equities research firm has said. In its Consumer Sector report for 2018, IH Securities (IH) said while Zimbabwe’s GDP per capita remained well below peer…
HARARE – Robert Tinotenda Mugabe Jnr’s romance with South African Tshego Moloto has apparently hit the rocks, after social media indications that the two might have split. Although it is still unclear why the love birds decided to go separate ways, Moloto took to her Instagram page and declared that she was single. “I may…
HARARE – After a great performance at home at the Bulawayo Theatre on July 26, the play Blood Tongue The Musical — an exciting collaboration between Zimbabwean and South African artists produced by Nhimbe Trust in Bulawayo in 2017, now heads to the Reps Theatre in Harare on August 31 and September 1, 2018. Scheduled…
HARARE – The recent arrest of Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo has thrust the spotlight back on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s corruption fight. Chivayo was arrested last week on corruption charges while trying to flee the country when he had gotten wind that law enforcement agents were looking for him. The controversial businessman and his company —…
HARARE – Nelson Chamisa, leader of the MDC Alliance, has said he will not accept the results of the hard-fought and blood-soaked July 30 election. According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) he lost, but could Chamisa legally challenge the results? And how would that process work? According to leading domestic fact-checking portal, ZimFact, in…
