HARARE – Diamonds worth millions of dollars are due to be put on sale next month, the first auction after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) started operations. Mines and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando confirmed the sale but declined to disclose the quantities involved. “Last year, no diamonds were sold. There will be a…
HARARE – A local civil rights group has announced plans to stage a demonstration in the United Kingdom on February 10, to ratchet up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to address the emotive Gukurahundi massacres. The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM)’s supreme organ, the International Board, will hold the protest at…
HARARE – Harare businessman Philip Chiyangwa has not been served with summons of the divorce to his wife Elizabeth, he indicated yesterday. The media yesterday published Chiyangwa’s divorce but fumed that this was done before he had been served with summons. The flamboyant businessman was concerned that his personal affairs have been splashed in a…
HARARE – Flamboyant youthful businessman Genius Kadungure has boasted that he has bought a 2017 Bentley Bentayga — a supercar, which costs R4 million. Kadungure, 33, has been showing off on social media the sport utility vehicle — the fastest SUV ever built, which is a powerful, all-terrain, all-purpose car. The pictures are all the…
HARARE – Evangelist Ezekiel Guti junior will be buried today at the Glen Forest Memorial Cemetery, almost a week after his death in a swimming pool accident in South Africa on December 27. The body of the late Guti junior was flown to Zimbabwe from South Africa on December 30. Two all night vigils were…
HARARE – The State Procurement Board (SPB) has invited qualified contractors to submit sealed bids for construction of service stations in Masvingo and Harare. The tender invites are contained in a Government Gazette published on Friday by the SPB acting principal officer Samson Mutanhaurwa. There will be a site visit for the proposed Masvingo service…
BULAWAYO – The late vice president Joshua Nkomo turned down an offer to become the country’s president in a coalition government formed after the 1980 elections, Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa claims. Instead, the veteran nationalist opted for a ministerial post, only to be fired two years later by then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe on charges…
HARARE – After serving three years of his 290-year jail term, Thomas Chirembwe woke up to the news that his sentence had been slashed to 55 years. His maximum sentence had been reduced by 235 years after the High Court of Criminal Appeal had ruled that sentence imposed on him by presiding magistrate Simon Kachambwa…
HARARE – The MDC Alliance is fretting over the uncertainty surrounding Morgan Tsvangirai after he indicated that he was mulling stepping down. Tsvangirai was selected to be the presidential candidate for the MDC Alliance on August 5 last year, whose constituent members include the People’s Democratic Party, led by Tendai Biti; the MDC led by…
HARARE – The MDC is headed for turbulent times amid reports that its longest serving deputy Thokozani Khupe is contemplating stepping down should Morgan Tsvangirai attempt to hand over power to any of her juniors. Tsvangirai who is battling cancer of the colon hinted last week that he was considering quitting and handing over the…
