HARARE – The fight to control and succeed mysterious prophet Madzibaba Wimbo is hotting up, with police commissioner general Augustine Chihuri — who is a brother to the revered diviner — now being accused of playing “a negative role” in the deepening saga. Wimbo — the head of the Mount Darwin-based Johane Masowe Vadzidzi Vajesu…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s tobacco production has so far outpaced the previous year by most measures including volume and value sold. Production and sales of tobacco rose from 66,8million kg in the prior season to 87,9 million kg as at day 32 of the marketing season following last year’s devastating drought that has left 4 million…
HARARE – Two Chitungwiza men reportedly murdered and stripped-naked a guitarist on his way back home from a choir rehearsal, a Harare court has heard. Tapiwa Mangai, 37, and Solomon Gochera, 27, of Unit D in Seke, Chitungwiza appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Chimboza on Saturday facing murder charges. The duo was remanded in custody…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is set to hold a conference to unveil its policies ahead of next year’s much anticipated elections, party vice president Nelson Chamisa has said. He told a Sapes policy dialogue forum in Harare last week that they have “polished up our policy documents because we believe it is not enough…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has launched a new treatment for malaria, marking the latest step in a program to stem growing resistance to older treatments such as chloroquine. This comes as multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have taken hold in parts of Zimbabwe, threatening to undermine progress against the disease. Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa said…
HARARE – The body of ex-Namibian Chief Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe — who passed on in Windhoek on May 10 — is expected to leave by plane tomorrow, officials said. Mutambanengwe’s body will be flown to Harare for burial after his death at Paramount Hospital in Windhoek due to renal failure, according to Justice Rita Makarau,…
HARARE – The trial of a driver of a South Africa-registered haulage truck that crashed with a bus at Nyamatikiti River near Chaka in Chirumhanzu on April 5, killing dozens of passengers, will commence on Thursday. Regis Mungwari, 29 — a driver of Transmech Logistics, a South Africa-registered haulage truck — has been charged with…
HARARE – As the country’s economy continues to die, and cash shortages worsen, the debate on the need or otherwise for Zimbabwe to embrace the South African rand as the country’s anchor currency is gathering momentum. This comes as the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) encouraged the government at the weekend to enact a law…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday hailed the late retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku for ruling that the government may acquire land and agriculture equipment seized from white-owned farms. He told mourners at the burial of Chidyausiku at the Heroes’ Acre — a national shrine in the shape of an AK47 assault rifle — that…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s administration is at odds over proposed currency reforms, with divergent views emerging about adopting the South African rand as Zimbabwe’s anchor currency. Fiscal and monetary authorities sharply differ over proposals to make the rand the currency of choice ostensibly because of Zimbabwe’s strong trade links with South Africa. Reserve Bank…
