Opinion & Analysis »
2/27/2013 12:46:00 PM
HARARE - Heart-wrenching reports about the state of dereliction on the former prime estate at Kondozi apparently indicate the slapdash method adopted in rolling out the national agrarian reform programme. From the onset the noble agrarian revolution looked vulnerable to abuse...
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Business »
2/27/2013 12:33:00 PM
HARARE - Ex-Hwange Colliery Company (HCC) managing director Fred Moyo has been arrested over an alleged $2 million fraud at Oryx Mine (Private) Limited (Oryx), businessdaily can reveal. Sharon Musendo, the police’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) press officer, yesterday confirmed the...
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Business »
2/27/2013 12:31:00 PM
HARARE - A South African mining supplier has filed a lawsuit against RioZim Limited (RioZim) over a R16 million debt. The company Boltgas Industrial and Mining yesterday filed a High Court application demanding their outstanding payment from the listed resources group....
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Business »
2/27/2013 12:27:00 PM
HARARE - Financial services group CBZ Holdings (CBZ) reported a 61 percent rise in after tax profit to $45 million from $30,3 million in the year ended December 2012. The group said the performance was driven by a strong gross written...
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News »
2/27/2013 12:01:00 PM
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe turned 89 on Thursday determined to extend his grip on power despite concerns over his health and advanced age. Africa’s oldest leader and world’s second oldest after Shimon Peres of Israel, Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since...
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2/27/2013 12:01:00 PM
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe's “exaggerated” literacy rate by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has caused complacency leading to lower pass rates and standards in schools, minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart has said. Speaking during a book launch...
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2/27/2013 12:01:00 PM
HARARE - Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere appears undaunted by the overwhelming failure of his ministry’s dysfunctional youth empowerment programme. The programme, which rides on the back of elusive bank loans for youth self-help projects, has become a source of consternation and...
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2/27/2013 12:01:00 PM
HARARE - SLAIN Christpower Maisiri was born in Radze Mountain in 2000 as his parents hid from marauding shock-troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. On Saturday night, he met his death in a politically-orchestrated arson attack, again blamed on...
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Entertainment »
2/27/2013 11:57:00 AM
HARARE - Dendera musician Suluman Chimbetu is convinced that at long last he is now his own man after years of living in the shadow of his late legendary father Simon Chimbetu. Sulu‘s fourth album Syllabus released in November last year,...
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Business »
2/27/2013 11:50:00 AM
HARARE - The National Social Security Authority (Nssa) says it will not bail out banks in which it has interests if they fail to meet the central bank’s recapitalisation requirements. This comes as the pensions authority has deliberated on a Deloite...
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Business »
2/27/2013 11:48:00 AM
HARARE - Zimbabwe's high country risk and perceived negative image is hampering investments in power generation projects, Energy ministry said. For decades, the country’s energy sector has deteriorated, undermined by lack of investment, poor maintenance, low fiscal support and a huge...
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Opinion & Analysis »
2/27/2013 11:46:00 AM
HARARE - With elections expected mid-year, Zanu PF and its agents have already stepped up the campaign of harassment. The signs are ominous. The current onslaught on civil society casts doubt on the prospect of free and fair elections. But generally...
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Opinion & Analysis »
2/27/2013 11:42:00 AM
HARARE - We are outraged by the rape and murder of 10-year-old Stacy Munjoma. As citizens of this beautiful country, we implore government to urgently do something to stand up against rape. We find it unacceptable that the police insisted that...
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News »
2/27/2013 11:40:00 AM
HARARE - We are instructed by Brainworks Capital Management (Private) Limited to demand an immediate unconditional apology and retraction from the Daily News, and persons associated with the paper, in particular Messrs. Mutsaka, Phiri and Chiriga, in respect of certain...
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
2/27/2013 11:14:00 AM
HARARE - The brutal killing of a 12-old-boy in Headlands took centre stage in Parliament yesterday with MDC members accusing President Robert Mugabe of failing to stop political violence. Other MPs said Mugabe’s calls for peace are genuine but his followers...
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2/27/2013 10:49:00 AM
HARARE - Battle lines have been drawn between former allies — MDC formations and civic society — as the country hurtles towards a constitutional referendum set for March 16. Daggers were out at a recent emotive public debate in Harare organised...
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2/27/2013 10:41:00 AM
HARARE - A Harare man is lucky to be alive after his Chinese employer assaulted and fired gunshots at him as he tried to negotiate for terminal benefits following an unfair dismissal, the court heard. Xiaoming Li, 38, allegedly assaulted Lloyd...
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2/27/2013 10:35:00 AM
HARARE - The case of 29 Glen View murder suspects continue to drag on as the bid to secure the presence of a Cuban pathologist is proving fruitless, six months after the doctor was subpoenaed. Prosecutor Edmore Nyazamba yesterday led evidence...
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2/27/2013 10:32:00 AM
HARARE - Two police officers who allegedly stole a plasma TV, laptops and other gadgets from the late Vice President John Landa Nkomo’s house in Bulawayo will continue languishing in remand prison. Bulawayo magistrate Witness Mtetwa yesterday dismissed the cops’ quest...
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2/27/2013 10:29:00 AM
HARARE - Four Zanu PF-aligned Chipangano youth militia who assaulted a teenage boy have been slapped with a three-year jail term as the courts continue sending warning shots to hooligans. John Zuze, Antonio Zuze, Alexander Kadzviti and Cosmos Muguzumbi will spend...
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2/27/2013 10:22:00 AM
HARARE - Parliament has partnered human rights lawyers to capacitate legislators in the field of human rights work. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and Parliament comes as government ups its crackdown on pro-democracy groups....
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2/27/2013 10:18:00 AM
HARARE - Small-minded revolutionaries will always claim credit for everything that happens subsequent to it. So when Jonathan Moyo notwithstanding his role as a legislator asserts that the credit for all the indigenisation transactions concluded to date including the controversial...
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Sport »
2/26/2013 1:27:00 PM
HARARE - Veteran Dynamos midfielder Murape Murape has hailed DeMbare’s new signings after producing a flawless display Sunday to hand rivals Highlanders one of the biggest defeats in the two clubs’ long-standing rivalry. Murape welcomed the new additions, particularly strikers Patrick...
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Sport » Austin Karonga, Sports Writer
2/26/2013 1:24:00 PM
HARARE - Highlanders fans have criticized the lack of “home-grown players” in their team, blaming it for the club’s failure to challenge bitter rivals Dynamos in recent times. Dynamos walloped Bosso 4-0 in the Bob 89 Super Cup Challenge on Sunday...
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Sport »
2/26/2013 1:22:00 PM
HARARE - In a big endorsement of his talent, Ajax Cape Town’s Zimbabwean ace Khama Billiat has been likened to Real Madrid maestro Cristiano Ronaldo, albeit in a thinly-disgusted criticism of the Warriors starlet by a respected South African football journalist....
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