September 19, 2024
At the time of going to print yesterday, there were reports of massive defections from the MDC-M in four of the country’s political provinces, namely, Manicaland, Mashonaland West, Mashonaland East and Mashonaland Central.This development comes almost a month after other key figures within the Mutambara camp, namely, Job…
An extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of shareholders is expected to be convened next week to vote on the planned transaction.It was not immediately clear how much the directors planned to raise through the private placement, but the notice to shareholders said directors were hoping not only to benefit…
World Bank vice president for Africa, Obiageli Ezekwesili, said some US$22 million in grants from the bank were being spent on behalf of donors through international agencies, aid and church groups to help small farmers and the poor.Media reports this week said the World Bank would make its…
The incident took place in cells at Harare Central Police Station last month.Police national spokesperson, senior assistant commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena, could only confirm that the quartet would appear in court on May 29, as he was still verifying the facts.Harare lawyer, Tendai Hangazha however, said the policemen brutalised…
Correspondence to Zuma, the SADC chair and newly sworn-in South African President and the AU chairperson, Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, to intervene in a stalemate that might collapse the three-month-old inclusive government followed a resolution by the MDC-T’s national executive council at the weekend which resolved to refer…
Observers said while the party had a right to its properties, the major hurdle was going to be who really represented the party, Dabengwa or his colleagues who had remained in ZANU-PF.A war veteran who has opposed the revival of ZAPU all along said the ZAPU that was…
The move has infuriated empowerment lobby group, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG), which responded by approaching government with a proposal that the listed company be subjected to the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act. The act stipulates that foreign companies must cede 51 percent of their shareholding to locals.In a…
The lawyers, who marched on Tuesday from the High Court to the offices of Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa (New Government Complex) where they handed over a petition to his officials, protested against the harassment of legal practitioners by State agents during the course of their duties.Tuesday’s petition by…
The vitriol came after Biti, in his budget review statement in February, said “the death of the Zimbabwe dollar is a reality we have to live with”, while Mangoma said an economic cluster set up as part of the 100-Day Action Plan had decided to shelve the use…
Munyaradzi Mugowo, Staff ReporterThe Zimbabwe Pho-sphate Industries (Zim-Phos) has struck a deal with Harare city council to construct a water treatment plant at Cleveland Dam that would alleviate chronic water cuts affecting the country's sole supplier of phosphates.The project entails the resuscitation of an old water treatment plant…
