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…
HARARE – The move by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF to go ahead with a one-man election in Masvingo to fill the vacant chairmanship post shows the ruling party is determined to disregard democracy ahead of the much-anticipated 2018 elections, analysts said yesterday. Mutero Masanganise, who lost the first round last month, pulled out of…
HARARE – There are growing fears that Zimbabwe has become a new hub for dangerous drugs, including cocaine — following the arrest last week of two alleged drug mules at Harare International Airport. The two, both women — a Zimbabwean and a South African — were coming from Brazil when they were nabbed, with police…
HARARE – Government plans to build a new hospital to replace all functions of the old and overwhelmed Harare Central Hospital (HCH), Health minister David Parirenyatwa (pictured) said. HCH was commissioned in 1958 to cater for approximately 630 black African patients. “We agreed with the president (Robert Mugabe) and others that when you look at…
HARARE – Traffic cops manning rob blocks are free to urinate in public as there is no law to prohibiting the practice, Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni told the National Assembly on Thursday. Responding to a question from Matabeleland South MDC senator Sithembile Mlotshwa on what government was doing to enforce the law against…
HARARE – Victims of floods in Mbare have filed a $100 000 law suit against Harare City Council (HCC) for damages. The residents, who reside along Mbirimi, Chinamhora, Dumbutshena and Mwamuka streets, had their homes flooded twice after heavy rains hit the area. In their lawsuit filed by their legal counsel Allen Moyo on May…
HARARE – A South African woman suspected to have ingested cocaine and attempted to smuggle it into Zimbabwe is not pregnant as she claimed, a second scan has confirmed. Isaura Masinga, 40, of Germistone, South Africa, is appearing before Harare magistrate Barbra Chimboza facing charges of possession of cocaine. The first scan confirmed the presence…
HARARE – Government will soon inject $15 million into the resuscitation of Shabanie Mashaba Mines (SMM), Mines and Mining Development minister Walter Chidakwa has said. This comes after government secured asbestos markets in Russia and Kazakhstan. Chidakwa told the Senate on Thursday a government delegation had also secured a new market in India for the supply…
HARARE – Three #Tajamuka leaders were yesterday acquitted of charges of mobilising against the introduction of bond notes last year. The trio — #Tajamuka spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi, 35, Mehluli Dube, 35, and 23-year-old Kudakwashe Manjonjo — were facing charges of addressing a media briefing and participating in a gathering with the intention to promote public…
HARARE – Hard-working Tourism minister Walter Mzembi came agonisingly close to winning elections to become secretary-general of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) which were held in Madrid, Spain yesterday — before losing in the run-off. In the end, Zurab Pololikashvili of Georgia was elected to become the next UNWTO secretary-general, beating Mzembi by…
