Entertainment »
1/30/2013 11:52:00 AM
HARARE - Mbira player and songstress, Hope Masike has paid tribute to Chimurenga King Thomas Mapfumo and mbira queens, Stella Chiweshe and Chiwoniso Maraire for elevating the mbira music instrument. Masike, who is in Norway launching a new album entitled The...
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Business »
1/30/2013 11:26:00 AM
HARARE - The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has licenced Chidziva Tobacco Processors (Chidziva) to buy burley tobacco this year following closure of sole-buyer Burley Marketing Zimbabwe (BMZ). The move is expected to relieve burley tobacco growers who have over...
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Business »
1/30/2013 11:23:00 AM
HARARE - European Investment Bank (EIB) officials arrived in Zimbabwe on Monday for a week-long mission to assess funding opportunities in the country’s struggling industry. This comes on the back of Zimbabwean industry and businesses struggling to access lines of credit....
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Business »
1/30/2013 11:18:00 AM
HARARE - ZB Financial Holdings Limited (ZBFH) plans to streamline operations as part of strategies to contain costs and consolidate its capital base. The group — currently expediting the merger of its banking unit with the building society — said the...
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Business »
1/30/2013 11:14:00 AM
HARARE - Cement maker Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) says it is pursuing additional buy out opportunities in Africa to help unlock shareholder value and increase its presence in the continent. Last year, the South Africa-based company hinted that it could spend...
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Opinion & Analysis »
1/30/2013 11:12:00 AM
HARARE - IS the window dressing about to start? By all accounts it looks like a referendum on the draft constitution is only weeks away and an election will follow soon after. In 2008, we all literally voted for...
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Opinion & Analysis »
1/30/2013 11:10:00 AM
HARARE - It took a courageous clutch of Bulawayo youths to debunk Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s myth that their unemployment problems could be solved by distributive nationalism. Constant harping on intentions and promises hard to implement has boomeranged to haunt the...
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News »
1/30/2013 11:07:00 AM
HARARE - Chitungwiza South legislator Misheck Shoko claims he found a bullet in his letter box on January 15, allegedly from his MDC counterparts as rivalry escalates in the party over primary elections. The MP, who is also a veteran of...
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News »
1/30/2013 11:04:00 AM
HARARE - A High Court judge has granted bail to ZimRights director Okay Machisa after ruling that a magistrate who previously denied him freedom was “misdirected”. Justice Felistas Chatukuta yesterday ordered Machisa to surrender title deeds to an immovable property with...
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Features »
1/30/2013 11:02:00 AM
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe is serious. There will be no violence in this year’s elections. If there is, he will not be responsible. People might ask why? After all the country has never held any elections that were free...
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Sport » Austin Karonga, Sports Writer
1/30/2013 10:59:00 AM
HARARE - Representatives from English Premiership sides West Bromwich Albion and West Ham United are expected to jet into the country this afternoon for a two- week talent identification mission at Harare’s Manhingi Academy. Paul Andre Gibbons, an ex- West Brom...
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Sport » Enock Muchinjo, Sports Editor
1/30/2013 10:57:00 AM
HARARE - Race remains an overriding issue in Zimbabwean cricket, a sport that was a keystone of white Zimbabwean identity in the past. But times have changed. Most cricket players in Zimbabwe now are black - as are around 98 per...
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Sport »
1/30/2013 10:56:00 AM
HARARE - Zimbabwe Cricket yesterday named two squads for next month’s tour of the West Indies, naming just one player without a cap in any of the three formats. 22-year-old Mashonaland Eagles spinner Tino Mutombodzi, who will return home after...
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Sport »
1/30/2013 10:47:00 AM
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwean football giants Highlanders and former South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns have sounded the war cry for today’s tour opener at Barbourfields Stadium. Speaking in separate interviews yesterday, the two coaches predicted a tough encounter that is likely to...
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Sport » Nigel Matongorere, Senior Sports Writer
1/30/2013 10:44:00 AM
HARARE - Zimbabwean coach Wilfred Mugeyi has taken a bold and risky career step after joining serial coach-sackers Chippa United in the South African Absa Premiership yesterday. The former Warriors forward becomes the fourth coach to be hired by the club...
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News »
1/30/2013 10:36:00 AM
HARARE - Police have expressed alarm over the proliferation of explosives in the hands of civilians and warned members of the public to exercise caution. Last week, a deadly blast resulted in the death of six people in Chitungwiza. National police...
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News »
1/30/2013 10:36:00 AM
HARARE - Zimbabwe government is approaching the international community to bankroll this year’s watershed elections. President Robert Mugabe and his coalition partner, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, have already ordered Finance minister Tendai Biti and his Justice counterpart Patrick Chinamasa to take...
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News »
1/30/2013 10:36:00 AM
HARARE - The last thing an MDC activist wants is to be in the company of police, given the history of arrests and alleged beatings in police custody. But for the past few days, hundreds of aspiring MDC candidates have been...
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News »
1/30/2013 10:36:00 AM
HARARE - Instead of the joyful scenes that normally characterise the summer rains in Zimbabwe, the heavy downpour the country is experiencing since January 7 has brought misery to communities. An estimated 4 475 people across the country have been affected,...
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Sport »
1/30/2013 10:30:00 AM
HARARE - Motor Action coach Joey Antipas will next month leave for a one-month coaching attachment with German champions Borussia Dortmund and Danish top flight outfit Brondy FC. The ex-Zimbabwe national team assistant coach will be returning to Europe for the...
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News »
1/30/2013 10:21:00 AM
HARARE - Seven cops accused of murdering a Shamva resident after a brutal attack that left 11 others hospitalised have begun answering to murder charges at the High Court. The trial entered its second day yesterday. All stationed at Shamva Police...
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News »
1/30/2013 10:19:00 AM
HARARE - A Masvingo man allegedly murdered a fellow Zimbabwean residing in Botswana before looting his property and fleeing back to the country, a Harare court has heard. The 28-year-old Munyaradzi Willias Mapurisa yesterday appeared before Magistrate Tendai Mahwe on allegations...
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Africa »
1/29/2013 4:40:00 PM
CAIRO - Egypt's armed forces chief has warned the current political crisis "could lead to a collapse of the state". General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, in comments posted on the military's Facebook page, said such a collapse could "threaten future generations". He...
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World »
1/29/2013 4:30:00 PM
DAMASCUS - The bodies of dozens of young men, all apparently summarily executed, have been found in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, rebels and activists say. At least 65 bodies were found on the banks of the Quwaiq river in...
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Sport » Enock Muchinjo, Sports Editor
1/29/2013 11:55:00 AM
HARARE - Kaizer Chiefs forward Matthew Rusike faces a tough decision as he weighs up whether to commit his international future to Zimbabwe or South Africa, it emerged yesterday. The 22-year-old midfield-cum-striker, who was born and raised in Harare, has a...
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