November 22, 2024
The re-engagement comes hard on the heels of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) Troika meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, where ZANU-PF and the two formations of the MDC were given up to 30 days to iron out their differences.The Troika also unveiled South African President, Jacob Zuma, as…
POSA replaced the Law and Order Maintenance Act used by the colonial Rhodesian government to victimise freedom fighters.While POSA was amended in 2007, five years after being introduced in 2002, human rights defenders still maintain that the law has largely remained repressive.The fresh amendments come almost two decades…
Thus Zimbabwe is typically a decaying society. Corruption is institutionalised, the principle of equity before the law is non-existent, and there is no limit to the abuse of political power while accountability and transparency are, for want of a better phrase, ever-shrinking. That there are red lines the…
Judge Chinembiri Bhunu also ruled that a weapons dealer can testify at Bennett’s trial, setting the stage for lawyers to spar over his testimony and how it was obtained once the proceedings begin in earnest today.The weapons case against Bennett, a top aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai,…
“Zimbabwe agreed not to export Marange diamonds until the monitoring mechanism is established,” Ian Kelly, a spokesman for the United States State Department, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The Kimberley Process, a global body created to curb trade in gems mined to fund conflict, on November 5…
The other bidder is South Africa’s A-rcelorMittal SA, part of Lakshmi Mittal’s Ar-celorMittal headquartered in Luxembourg.Jindal’s bid is backed by South Africa’s Industrial Dev-elopment Corporation (IDC), with the Dev-elopment Bank of South Africa (DBSA) said to be on the wings as a financing associate.Although pundits were tipping Arce-lorMittal…
During the full year ended August 31, Astra reported a 55 percent decline in steel sales as mining and construction activity remained “subdued” through the first half of the financial year as a result of falling commodity demand and suspended projects.The construction industry has declined precipitously in the…
The vehicle loan scheme had previously been dogged by allegations of favouritism, with one former Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) legislator, Timothy Mukahlera, taking the matter to the courts.Apart from the scheme, which is known as the Motor Vehicle Revolving Fund, the legislative assembly has also failed to…
Didymus Mutasa, ZANU-PF’s secretary for administration, said the premier should have called for the immediate removal of sanctions the day he appended his signature to the Global Political Agreement in September last year.“That is what he was supposed to have done a long time ago when he entered…
The doctors, expected to start work today after a month-long suspension, were called to fill in assumption of duty forms on Monday. They were part of the health professionals who downed their tools on August 11, protesting against poor salaries.A doctor who spoke to The Financial Gazette on…
