AUTHORITIES recently banned the export of raw lithium and insisted firms granted the rights to mine the mineral should set up value addition plants. The move received mixed reactions, but in our view it was a masterstroke. The country should maximise on the mineral, as lithium has the potential to trigger major economic growth in…
ZIMBABWE plans to set up an offshore financial centre in the resort city of Victoria Falls that the government hopes will emulate the likes of Dubai and the Isle of Man to attract foreign investment. “The trigger is the success of the VFEX,” Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said in an interview, a reference to the…
THE High Court has ruled that indigenous Zimbabweans who sue the Lands ministry after the State repossesses their land on the basis of their nationality have no legal recourse. This comes after a white farmer from Gweru, Frances Mary Bowers, filed an application at the High Court challenging the seizure of her farm by the…
A MOTHER and her son have appeared before the Harare Magistrate’s Court facing vehicle theft charges after they allegedly sold a car they had hired from a rental firm. Daniel Austen, 39, and his mother Jennifer May Austen, 66, together with their alleged accomplice, Tarisayi Ziyambi, 39, appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi on Monday….
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon announce the dates for this year’s crunch national elections after he gazetted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(Zec)’s delimitation report on Monday. Addressing thousands of people who gathered to commemorate National Youth Day in Lupane yesterday, Mnangagwa confirmed that he was ready to proclaim the dates for the harmonised polls. “As per…
By Ketty Nyoni PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged law enforcement agencies to take ruthless action against drug peddlers, saying that youth drug abuse is impeding economic development. Speaking at the National Youth Day commemorations held in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, yesterday, he said people selling illicit drugs must be removed from society. “I have directed…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has called on the police to investigate all cases of political violence as reports of disturbances are on the rise in the country ahead of this year’s general elections. The call comes as cases of political disturbances pitting the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu…
MADAGASCAR suspended schools and transport in the path of tropical cyclone Freddy yesterday, which was expected to make landfall in the south-east…
By Yvonne Ncube BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says it is clamping down on space barons who have allegedly been collecting bribes from desperate vendors, while promising them trading bays at the soon-to-be opened Egodini Mall and Fife Street Market. This comes at a time the menacing space barons have been illegally issuing vending bays in…
THE department of Civil Protection has informed at least 2 000 families living downstream of Lake Mutirikwi in Masvingo to vacate the area as the dam, the country’s second largest inland water body, has spilled for the first time in 15 years. Local Government communications director Gabriel Masvora confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that…
