HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is today expected through the courts, to announce a firm date when he will dissolve Parliament, a move that might determine the timing of a fresh general election. Zimbabweans are anxious about the poll dates, which have been a subject of fresh bickering between Mugabe and coalition partners Prime minister…
HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has taken a swipe at security service chiefs, warning they should stop posing a threat to the will of the people and respect the country’s constitutional process. Speaking on the sidelines of the just-ended World Economic Forum in Cape Town, Tsvangirai told News24 that the behaviour of Zimbabwe’s…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has extended Interfin Bank Limited (Interfin)’s curatorship to year-end. Yesterday, Central Bank governor Gideon Gono said the extension takes into account “developments in the macro-economy that are militating against the injection of new capital.” “These macro issues are matters that go beyond the individual institution or shareholder…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe national football team is without four regular players for this afternoon’s final qualifier of the 2013 African Nations Cup against Angola at Rufaro Stadium. Warriors coach Rahman Gumbo has had a frustrating week that has seen two of his regular starters Knowledge Musona and Tinashe Nengomasha fail to arrive for the…
HARARE – For many inside Zanu PF, Ian Smith is a contemptible human being who symbolised the loathed colonial government. But not for Japhet Madubeko, who hero-worships the former prime minister of Rhodesia — now Zimbabwe. Madubeko, a Zanu PF legislator for Vungu Constituency has nothing but praise for the man whom his leader President…
HARARE – A 22-year-old Kuwadzana man has been sentenced to an effective 14 years in jail after he was found guilty of aggravated indecent assault. Pardon Chikomo would lure his 10-year-old victim to the maize fields in their area and sodomise him. Regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya sentenced Chikomo to 18 years in jail but suspended…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket captain Brendan Taylor says the team’s disastrous tour of the West Indies last month served as a wake-up call for the side. Zimbabwe picked themselves up from that Caribbean tour, where they were whitewashed across all three formats, to demolish Bangladesh by 335 runs with a day to spare in the…
BULAWAYO – Chairperson of the National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (Nango) says his organisation is approaching the African Union (AU) over continuous police crackdown on its members. Addressing a press conference in Bulawayo last week, Effort Ncube said Nango is worried that police have become partisan and are arresting its members every week. “This is…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s parliamentarians, who are nothing but rubber stamps for their respective political parties, “adopted and approved” that ridiculous draft constitution. I cannot believe that in the whole Parliament there were no dissenting voices to trumpet against the regression that this document invites. Not long ago, the MDC was making a lot of noise,…
HARARE – This week, Australian mining tycoon and one of the country’s richest persons Gina Rinehart accused her government of using the mining industry as an ATM. “What few seem to properly understand — even people in government — is that miners and other resources industries aren’t just ATMs (cash machines) for everyone else to…
