HARARE – The Zimbabwe Agricultural Society (Zas) is expanding its mandate to include meetings, incentives, conventions and events (MICE), as the organisation transforms itself to play a part in turning around the country’s economy. Anxious Masuka, the Society’s chief executive, told the Financial Gazette last week that agricultural societies the world over are transforming from…
HARARE – Harare’s popular recreation facility, Africa Unity Square, which has in the past been used as a rallying point by opposition political parties has been out of bounds since July 21 as government says it is running a culture event. The MDC Alliance recently wanted to gather at the venue but were told by…
HARARE – Four dancers from the Cape Town City Ballet will join with more than 80 dancers from Harare for a dance show running this week at Reps Theatre in Belgravia. South Africa ballet dancers will continue their performance at Reps Theatre in Harare until Sunday courtesy of Dance Trust Zimbabwe. Running under the theme…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo giants Highlanders are hoping to cash-in on their Castle Lager Premiership clash against Dynamos after hiking gate charges for Sunday’s encounter at Barbourfields Stadium. Bosso take on their rivals when the league resumes this weekend after paving way for last Monday’s harmonised elections. “Please take note that our gate charges for the…
HARARE – The streets of Harare were yesterday turned into war zones after the army was deployed to disperse demonstrators, unhappy with delays in the release of election results and perceived bias by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). Several protesters were injured in the ensuing melee, with a journalist from the AFP claiming seeing a…
HARARE – Political analysts yesterday condemned the barbaric violence by suspected MDC supporters and government’s own deployment of soldiers to quell the disturbances which left several people injured amid claims of loss of life. MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa had on Tuesday claimed poll victory before the results had been announced — in a…
HARARE – Many political bigwigs in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF suffered shocking defeats in the July 30 National Assembly elections even as votes were still being counted. Ministers Chris Mutsvangwa, Patrick Chinamasa, his deputy Terrence Mukupe, ex-War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube and Petronella Kagonye lost their parliamentary strongholds. While the preliminary results from different…
BULAWAYO – Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP)’s plan for secession was thrown into doubt on Monday after voters angry at the idea of their Mthwakazi State breaking away from Zimbabwe gave the opposition party a fierce drubbing in parliamentary elections. MRP leader Mqondisi Moyo yesterday conceded the worse-than-expected defeat but said its participation in the Monday…
HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday angrily rejected an MDC Alliance allegation that he was plotting to assassinate presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and his alliance partner Tendai Biti, dismissing the allegations as hallucinations of a man high on weed. This comes after Biti told a news conference on Tuesday that Chiwenga had ordered a…
HARARE – Political analysts have blamed the country’s opposition parties for authoring their own downfall in Monday’s national harmonised elections by failing to set aside their differences and contest the ruling Zanu PF as a united front. Zanu PF thumped the fragmented opposition in the National Assembly where only the main opposition MDC Alliance and…
