BUSINESS NEWS

ABSA bank set to seize James Makamba's mansion

Top Mugabe ally owes Absa $4.5-million for home loan, credit cards and car paymentsJames Makamba's sprawling Johannesburg property could soon be confiscated by Absa bank to recover a $4.5-million (R59...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

ZEC scoffs at Chamisa's 'mischievous demands'

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has literally told the country's biggest opposition the MDC Alliance to adhere to the law or go hang.In response to the opposition grouping led by Nelson Chamis...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

OPINION

Chamisa vs Mnangagwa: an election too close to call

IT is hard to tell which between Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, and his much younger challenger, Nelson Chamisa, 40, will win the presidential elections next month.It will be the first time in near...

By Peta Thornycroft | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa warns Chivayo

Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo faces prosecution with the risk of doing time behind bars, after President Mnangagwa yesterday said the mistake made in awarding him the Gwanda solar project...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Cops block Zanu-PF supporters from leaving Mnangagwa rally

MUTOKO police on Saturday struggled to block restive Zanu-PF supporters from walking out on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's campaign rally at Chizanga Primary School.The police officers tried in vain t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF intra-party violence rocks Mbare

ZANU-PF intraparty violence resurfaced in Harare's populous Mbare suburb yesterday, where three supporters of the ruling party's parliamentary candidate, Tendai Savanhu, were severely injured during c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

'MDC-T power-mongers plotting against Alliance'

MDC ALLIANCE spokesperson and leader of the MDC, Welshman Ncube has sensationally claimed that some power-hungry MDC-T officials had embarked on a mission to derail the coalition project after they we...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

'Poll survey, wake-up call for MDC Alliance'

POLITICAL analysts have urged MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, to objectively analyse a recent poll survey report produced by Afrobarometer to correct the highlighted grey areas an...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa warns observers to be objective

ZANU-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered visiting foreign observe missions to familiarise themselves with the country's electoral laws and political environment to avoid producing biase...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

No dualisation but $400,000 fence

THE government has started erecting a 321-kilometre-long servitude fence worth $400 000 between Beitbridge and Bulawayo road to reduce animal-induced road carnage.Work is already underway and villager...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Ex-Zanu-PF councillor eyes Gweru Urban

Former Zanu-PF ward 2 councillor, Tiripayi Chipondeni, who was recently recalled from the ruling party on allegations of fanning factionalism, has bounced back into the political limelight and thrown ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Bodyguard used as a podium

HIS bodyguard-turned-podium is now sweating profusely as the Kwekwe Central MP and former Zanu-PF member, Masango "Blackman" Matambanadzo, keeps extending his speech during a National Patriotic Front ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'Zim needs rebranding to attract FDI'

ZIMBABWE needs to brand itself in order to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) as it faces stiff competition from other regional countries, an official from the Office of the President and Cabinet...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

'I will beat Mnangagwa hands down'

OPPOSITION MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday told supporters in Chiredzi that indications on the ground were that he would beat Zanu-PF leader President Emmerson M...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

AirZim employee wins $88 878 terminal benefits wrangle

Air Zimbabwe's bid to avoid shelling out $88 878 in terminal benefits to a retrenched employee, has hit a brickwall after the High Court dismissed the national airline's application for rescission of ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Zesn commends Zec on releasing roadmap

A LOCAL independent election watchdog has commended the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (Zec's) move to release the election roadmap, but raised the need for the electoral body to go further and adher...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim is open for business paying dividends

AT the turn of the century, Zimbabwe's economy was starting to decline. This was characterised by dwindling lines of credit, low investor confidence and negative marketing of the country by detractors...

By Elijah Chihota | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa urges foreign observers to be fair

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appealed to foreign observers coming to witness the July 30 harmonised elections to familiarise themselves with the country's electoral laws and institutional framework to fair...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T wants Mutezo out

MDC-T supporters in Chimanimani West constituency on Saturday demonstrated against the candidature of former Zanu-PF member and Energy and Power Development ex-Minister Mr Munacho Mutezo in the July 3...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa makes 5 election pledges

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa, the Zanu-PF Presidential candidate on July 30, yesterday made five pledges to Zimbabweans realisable within the next five years if voted into power. He posted the pledges on his F...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

60-member Chinese delegation jets in

A DELEGATION of 60 Chinese Government and private business organisations arrived in Harare yesterday to scout for business opportunities as China positions itself for massive investment in Zimbabwe un...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

Bhasikiti to represent MDC Alliance

The MDC- Alliance's bid to make inroads into the Zanu-PF stronghold of Mwenezi ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections is under threat after the alliance's candidate for Mwenezi East Mr Kudakash...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance plagiarised SA Constitution

THE MDC Alliance has been exposed for lack of originality after it copied word for word, full stop for full stop, a section of the South African Constitution in its election manifesto released last we...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

POLITICS

ZEC responds to MDC Alliance petition

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said some of the items contained in an MDC Alliance petition on electoral reforms are misdirected as they cannot be legally dealt with by the commission. Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018

OPINION

How the mighty Mugabes have fallen

During his reign, former president Robert Mugabe and his allies were untouchable to the point where not even the long arm of the law could catch up with them.But tables turned immediately after Mugabe...

By Tarisai Machakaire | Published: 10 June 2018

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