HARARE – Gold output in Zimbabwe has generated close to a billion dollars in foreign currency receipts in the first six months of this year, the highest level in 10 years, thanks to higher production from small-scale miners, official data shows. Gold is Zimbabwe’s single largest mineral export. Statistics from Fidelity Printers and Refiners, a…
HARARE – MDC Alliance youths yesterday reportedly assaulted freelance journalist Tamuka Charakupa in Harare’s dormitory town of Chitungwiza, the Media Institute of Southern Afica Zimbabwe (Misa) Zimbabwe chapter said yesterday. According to Charakupa, he was assaulted following clashes between MDC Alliance youths and those from Zanu PF. He said the MDC Alliance youths were part…
HARARE – The Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) — a nonprofit, nongovernmental research organisation — will on Friday reveal its final findings how people intend to vote in the crunch July 30 vote. Zimbabwe is heading for a presidential, parliamentary and municipal vote — that will be the first since Robert Mugabe was forced to…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is grossly misleading the country regarding food self sufficiency, a leading financial research firm has said. Equity Axis said latest trade data show a spike in maize imports. This comes against the background of repeated confirmation by authorities that Zimbabwe is now food self sufficient following a good harvest in…
HARARE – The Harare City Council has shortlisted a man fired from State tax agency Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) over a $300 000 import scam for the town clerk position. Sacked former Zimra finance director Robert Mangwiro has been shortlisted for the top post together with acting town clerk Hosea Chisango. Mangwiro was interviewed for…
HARARE – A Harare man drove away from a Zuva Service Station in Mabelreign without paying, after filling a container he was carrying with 1 000 litres of diesel, a Harare court heard yesterday. Joseph Chirunga, 43, of Retreat Park in Waterfalls appeared before Harare magistrate Milton Serima charged with fraud. He was released on…
HARARE – Former deputy minister and outgoing MP for Magunje Godfrey Gandawa has urged his supporters to vote for Nelson Chamisa and not President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister said his family and supporters will not vote for Mnangagwa. Gandawa was expelled from Zanu PF for dabbling in G40 factional…
HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said he arranged for the escape of then vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of his abrupt removal from the post by fallen despot Robert Mugabe. Speaking for the first time about the behind-the-scenes manoeuvres that enabled Mnangagwa to escape after his defenestration, Chiwenga told mourners in…
HARARE – MDC Alliance officials arrested on Saturday evening for entering Mutare Main Police Camp to protest the “appalling” handling of the ongoing postal ballot by the police have been released. Simon Chabuka, Godwin Sithole and Walter Mutwayo have been summoned to appear before the courts on Friday to answer to trespassing charges. The three…
HARARE – The shortage of hospitals in Matabeleland is a result of sparse population density caused by migration of local citizens to neighbouring countries, government has said. This comes amid bitter complaints over a critical shortage of primary health care facilities in the three Matabeleland provinces. So dire is the situation that villagers are being…
