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Vingirai trial set for June
By Our reporter at May 15, 2012 | 2:08 AM | 0 Comment
THE trial date for former Intermarket Holdings Limited chief executive Nicholas Vingirai is set for June 18. He is facing 11 counts of theft and two of externalisation of US$300 000, R1 500 000 and Z$5 216 727. Vingirai yesterday appeared before regional magistrate Ms Esthere Chivasa and was informed of his trial date. Prosecutor Michael Reza alleges that more...
Sikhala charged with rape
By Our reporter at May 12, 2012 | 9:21 AM | 0 Comment
FORMER St Mary’s legislator and MDC 99 leader Job Sikhala was yesterday charged with rape and theft. Sikhala (40) allegedly raped his personal assistant several times, making her pregnant. He also stands accused of stealing from the woman, who later suffered a miscarriage. He was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Don more...
‘Constructive step’ in Zim-EU talks
By Our reporter at May 11, 2012 | 1:33 AM | 0 Comment
THE European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton hailed ongoing political reforms in Zimbabwe and indicated that the western bloc is on the way to further easing of sanctions. She was in talks with a delegation from Harare on Thursday, comprising Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa (Zanu-PF), Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma (MDC-T) and more...
Zim-EU re-engagement talks resume in Brussels
By Our reporter at May 10, 2012 | 2:39 AM | 0 Comment
THE Zimbabwe team involved in re-engagement talks with the European Union arrived in Brussels, Belgium yesterday ahead of talks scheduled to begin today. The dialogue seeks to find ways of mending relations with the EU bloc which imposed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2002. The Zimbabwe team is being led by Energy and Power Development Minister, Elton Mangoma more...
Mujuru was sharp, alert, courageous and took dangerous assignments: Mugabe
By Our reporter at May 6, 2012 | 4:36 AM | 0 Comment
President Mugabe yesterday described the late Rtd General Solomon Mujuru as a courageous man who went on dangerous assignments for his country, while launching the Solomon Tapfumaneyi Ruzambu Mujuru Foundation, during the memorial of the late Retired General. The late Rtd Gen Mujuru’s military prowess, benevolence and charismatic personality was also celebrated more...
Factionalism tearing up Zanu-PF: Mugabe
By Our reporter at May 5, 2012 | 8:17 AM | 0 Comment
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe said factionalism is tearing up the Zanu-PF party and destroying the liberation ethos on which it was founded. He said this ahead of possible elections latter this year. Delivering a graveside eulogy at the burial of national hero, Edson Ncube in Harare, President Mugabe said he was particularly unhappy with the vote-buying that has blighted more...
Two teens guilty of killing a Zimbabwean boy
By Our reporter at April 29, 2012 | 11:21 PM | 0 Comment
A ZIMBABWEAN teenager stabbed to death by pupils from a rival school was about to move away from London for his safety when he was attacked, his father revealed today. Yemurai Kanyangarara, 16, had his throat slashed in daylight in front of passengers as he stepped off a bus in Welling last year. Isaac Walters, then aged 14, was yesterday found guilty of more...
Mugabe back home ‘fit as a fiddle’
By Ralph Mutema at April 12, 2012 | 2:47 PM | 0 Comment
Mugabe arrives PRESIDENT Mugabe and the First Lady Grace Mugabe have returned from Singapore where they had gone for the Easter holiday. They were met at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru, ministers Webster Shamu, Sydney Sekeramai, Nicholas Goche, Saviour Kasukuwere, senior government officials and service chiefs. The president is more...
Mutambara: Natural resources important in debt reduction
By Brett Mashingaidze at April 9, 2012 | 1:45 AM | 0 Comment
ZIMBABWE can leverage its natural resources to settle its debt and harness development if it carefully enters into deals with foreign firms, Deputy Prime Minister Mutambara has said. Addressing a seminar on “Debt, diamonds and development in Zimbabwe,” in Harare last week, DPM Mutambara said one “good” deal could offset the country’s sovereign debt of US$9,1 more...
Ministers snub Tsvangirai’s meeting
By Our reporter at April 4, 2012 | 2:19 AM | 0 Comment
ZANU-PF ministers in the inclusive Government on Tuesday snubbed prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s 'Cabinet meeting' which he had called in the absence of President Mugabe. The ministers accused the prime minister of trying to usurp President Mugabe's powers in his absence. President Mugabe chairs Cabinet meetings, while prime minister Tsvangirai chairs the more...
