Opinion & Analysis »
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 10:42
HARARE - “Our majority rule could easily turn into inhuman rule if we oppressed, persecuted or harassed those who do not think like the rest of us,” once said President Robert Mugabe on his inaugural independence address in 1980. True to...Read More
|
News »
Monday, 13 May 2013 10:39
HARARE - Zanu PF has appealed for divine intervention to deal with endemic corruption, with a Cabinet minister telling church leaders on Friday that he is ashamed of the riches amassed by some of his comrades. Addressing an Apostolic Christian Council...Read More
|
News »
Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:52
HARARE - Zimbabwe is losing a large chunk of its revenues to thieves in government, Finance minister Tendai Biti has claimed. Government departments are not remitting cash to Treasury and other forms of theft of minerals are on the rise in...Read More
|
News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:48
HARARE - There was jubilation in the House of Assembly yesterday following the passing of the new constitution Bill. After Speaker Lovemore Moyo announced to the House that the Bill had been given approval by two-thirds of the legislators present in...Read More
|
News »
Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:13
HARARE - Eric Matinenga, the minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs yesterday deferred debate on a new Constitutional Bill to today after tabling it in the House of Assembly. This caused a stir with Zanu PF legislators who had come to...Read More
|
News »
Sunday, 05 May 2013 13:40
BULAWAYO - A Bulawayo-based micro finance institution was yesterday besieged by hundreds of irate clients for late payment of return on investment. Visibly angry clients blocked the entrance of Perfectshot Investments, shouting obscenities and threatening to storm the offices. Perfectshot...Read More
|
Entertainment »
Thursday, 02 May 2013 13:54
HARARE - The Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa) promised an opening show awash with legendary music, dance and visuals and that is exactly what they delivered on Tuesday night. Directed by Asa Jogi, graduates from Zimbabwean talent search show Starbrite...Read More
|
Opinion & Analysis »
Wednesday, 01 May 2013 14:32
HARARE - The US Cato Institute recently described Zimbabwe as a country with “one of the world’s worst business environments,” saying our economy is like an athlete on steroids, propped up by artificial injections of loans and aid from China and...Read More
|
News »
Wednesday, 01 May 2013 14:26
HARARE - Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri says political parties seeking to hold political meetings” with him and other security chiefs are “day-dreaming”. “I wish to take this opportunity to warn liars and peddlers of falsehoods, who dream talking to us in...Read More
|
Entertainment » Vasco Shaya, Entertainment Writer
Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:18
HARARE - Zimbabwean music legend Oliver Mtukudzi, sungura kingpin Alick Macheso and dendera star Suluman Chimbetu will headline the three-day Mutare festival set for the eastern border town next month. The festival, which will run from May 17 to 19 at...Read More
|
News »
Tuesday, 30 April 2013 09:52
HARARE - Marital bliss is under threat in Harare, where domestic violence cases have spiked — and this has something to do with sanctions — at least according to the police. Fights breaking out in homes have become so frequent that...Read More
|
Opinion & Analysis »
Friday, 26 April 2013 11:23
HARARE - As reported elsewhere in this paper, too many people are putting themselves at risk by having unsafe sex with figures from Bindura showing a disappointing number of new cases of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). This is indeed worrying and stands...Read More
|
News » Gugulethu Nyazema, Staff Writer
Friday, 26 April 2013 11:02
HARARE - The mining town of Bindura has recorded a boom in sexually transmitted infections (STI) with 800 new cases having been recorded in the first quarter of this year alone. A breakdown of the shocking figure means Bindura town, which...Read More
|
Africa »
Thursday, 25 April 2013 14:07
CAIRO - Egypt's justice minister has resigned, following demands from Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi for the "cleansing" of the judiciary. Ahmed Mekky was seen as a supporter of judicial independence during former President Hosni Mubarak's rule. He threatened to...Read More
|
News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 10:57
HARARE - Violent vigilante groups such as Chipangano exist with the approval of the feared military establishment in the country, according to think tank group Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI). In a research paper released yesterday titled Security Sector Factor in Zimbabwe’s...Read More
|