HARARE – A High-level meeting convened by leaders of the MDC and the National People’s Party (NPP) in Harare on Friday failed to end the bickering between Joice Mujuru and Morgan Tsvangirai, whose negotiating teams are now pressed for time to strike an acceptable deal before elections which could be due early next year. Although…
HARARE – Government has said it would not be involved in the recruitment of workers for the improvement of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway because that was sorely the responsibility of the contractor. Unemployed youths are clamouring to be considered for jobs which would be created when construction works begin. The trunk road, which is to be…
HARARE – Zimbabwean and South African airlines resumed operations yesterday after a diplomatic standoff between the neighbouring countries grounded flights for almost two days from Friday evening. South African aviation authorities banned all Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) flights in and out of that country on Friday and Zimbabwean authorities responded by grounding South African Airways (SAA)…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe, who had been holed up in South Africa where she stood accused of severely assaulting and injuring a 20-year-old model, was finally granted immunity by President Jacob Zuma’s government and returned home in the early hours of yesterday morning. Grace landed at Harare International Airport early in the morning…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, who arrived in the country in the early hours of yesterday morning, did not show up at the burial of Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, amid speculation that woeful events of the past few days might have taken their toll on him,…
HARARE – Civil society organisations have called for regional solidarity from southern African partners in ensuring that the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe meet the Sadc standards for free and fair elections. During a session on human rights and elections at the Sadc People’s Summit on August 17, in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA), Zimbabwe Human Rights…
HARARE – Controversail former MDC director general, Toendepi Shonhe, who made headlines recently for predicting a landslide victory for Zanu PF in next year’s general elections, has lost a 1,2 hectare plot over an unspecified debt owed to a local bank. The property, located in the prime farming area of Goromonzi about 30 kilometres east…
HARARE – A daring Mbare couple has left a Kuwadzana man heart-broken and ruined after they connived to fake being brother and sister before luring him to fall in love with the supposed sister. The Harare man went on to pay lobola amounting to $3 000 after a year of dating while the supposed brother,…
HARARE – The two-year-old feud between Cimas Medical Aid Society (Cimas) and Corporate 24 Hospital Group (Corporate 24) is raging on with the former in the eye of a storm from its members after using $46 000 to conduct an investigation to recover $35 000, which they said was wrongfully claimed by the hospital, court…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is proposing a $300 000 underground bin project as a way of improving the face of the city following poor refuse collection. According to director of works Phillip Pfukwa, council would enter into a deal with local company Probin for the project. Pfukwa said Probin had already installed a…
