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Fingaz scribes excel

Ndlela landed the financial reporter of the year award sponsored by Delta Corporation, while Mandla Tshuma, also from the Fingaz, was a runner-up in the same category.Manyukwe scooped the legal and parliamentary reporter of the year award jointly sponsored by CBZ Bank and Matsikidze and Mucheche law firm.Winners…

Indaba litmus test for principals

With reports of politically-motivated violence increasing and ZANU-PF’s threats of a coup in the event of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai winning the next elections, the country has painfully inched closer to polls expected after a referendum on the draft charter.Next week’s constitution indaba therefore could not have come…

In-Depth out next week

The next edition of your favourite The Financial Gazette In-Depth will be out on October 25, 2012. Advertisers are being reminded that Monday, October 22, 2012 will be the booking deadline for advertising material. Readers, please, don’t miss out next week’s paper. — Editor

Poll roadmap in disarray

Although the Second All-Stakeholders’ Confe-rence to discuss the draft constitution is expected to kick off on Monday and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Bill was gazetted into law last week, critics say there is overwhelming evidence that the election roadmap insisted on by the Southern African Development Community (SADC)…

Police defy Biti

Finance Minister Tendai Biti froze recruitments across the board as the cash-strapped unity government found itself in an unenviable situation whereby most of its resources were chewed up by civil servants’ salaries that still fall far short of the breadline despite constituting more than 70 percent of the…

Election hurdles remain

The ZANU-PF leader was hauled to the High Court by Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) this year, seeking an order compelling him to call for by-elections in their former respective constituencies.This was after the trio’s parliamentary membership was terminated following…

Legislators name, shame Ministers

The current Parliament has been criticised for underperforming due to failure by MPs to agitate for the implementation of the  government’s legislative agenda, top of the list being long-awaited media and electoral reforms.Critics say there has not been any urgency on the part of the lawmakers to implement…

Mangoma arrested

Four detectives from Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Law and Order Section based at Harare Central Police Station picked up the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) minister at his Chaminuka offices in Harare around 15:00hrs.Mangoma’s lawyers, Beatrice Mtetwa and Selby Hwacha confirmed the arrest and were making frantic efforts to…

Al-Shabaab terrorises Kwekwe

Al Shabaab is named after an Islamic terror group operating from strife-torn Somalia and is an off shoot of al-Qaeda — a global militant Islamist organisation founded by the late Osama bin Laden.In Arabic, Al Shabab means youths or boys.The Midlands-based terror group is the latest to be…

Mugabe desperate for legitimacy

The ZANU-PF leader’s last “victory” against Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai, who boycotted the June 2008 presidential run-off citing state sponsored violence against his supporters was deemed as not reflecting the will of the people by the African Union, the Southern African Development Community and the international community.…