HARARE – The late businessman Shingi Mukandi’s father Benjamin yesterday said he suspects foul play in his son’s death and ruled out the possibility of a road traffic accident. Mukandi was killed in an accident on July 22 last year while riding his motor bike. He was hit by an Isuzu KB truck driven by…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for forcing school pupils to attend his rallies. Zinasu secretary-general, Ashley Pfunye, told MDC supporters during an electoral reforms demo in Harare on Tuesday: “He (Mnangagwa) acts as if he wants to become a headmaster because we have seen the abuse of…
HARARE – There was drama at Harare City Council (HCC)’s Town House after pensioners staged a sit-in on Monday, protesting the non-payment of their monthly pay-outs. According to the pensioners, some of whom are former liberation war fighters, they have not been receiving their monthly pay-outs since they were retired about four years ago. It…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law, Simba Chikore, faces arrest on charges of kidnapping Zimbabwe Airways’ legal head, Bertha Zakeyo, in a case that illustrates worsening turbulence at the controversy-dogged airline. This comes as the first of the three purchased Zimbabwe Airways planes was delivered to Harare from Malaysia and grounded for over two…
BULAWAYO – A survey by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (Mpoi) and Afrobarometer has predicted a closely-contested presidential race between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa that seems to point towards a run-off. Conducted between April 28 and May 13, the survey predicts that Mnangagwa, aged 75, could get 42 percent of…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has blamed the police for failing to arrest unlicensed foreign currency traders saying there was a legal framework in place to curb the vice. This comes as the country is in the throes of a critical US dollar shortage it adopted as legal tender in 2009 after the worthless…
HARARE – ZANU PF campaign material worth millions of dollars is being imported into Zimbabwe without paying duty at a time the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is struggling to meet its collection targets and the country’s economy is on its knees. The revelations were made during a question and answer session with parliamentarians in Harare…
HARARE – ZANU PF campaign material worth millions of dollars is being imported into Zimbabwe without paying duty at a time the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is struggling to meet its collection targets and the country’s economy is on its knees. See more details in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – NMB Bank has opened a sub-branch in Bindura as part of its expansion drive and to bring its services closer to clients. In a notice yesterday, NMB announced it would be spreading its tentacles to Bindura to increase convenience and better access to money for their customers. The sub-branch, which opened for business…
HARARE – Zimbabwean farmers sold 167,14 million kg of the nation’s top export earner, tobacco, by Day 49 of the selling season, which is 20 percent shy of a current season target of 200 million kg, official data showed yesterday. Compared to the same period last year, the volumes outturn is 19,9 percent up. At…
