• Southern Africa Zimbabwe Poll Date in Flux After Regional Body Calls for Delay

  JOHANNESBURG - Regional leaders have requested that Zimbabwe's government delay upcoming elections to give the troubled nation time to make sure the vote is free and fair. President Robert Mugabe set elections for July 31, saying he was complying with a ruling of the Constitutional Court. The request from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) supports the argument of Prime ...

• Is Nelson Mandela too soft on white South Africans Robert Mugabe says so.

  In a new documentary, the Zimbabwean president says that Mandela 'was too much of a saint' and takes the famous South African to task for not doing enough for the black ...

• Harare Secures $144 Million to Tackle Water Woes

  HARARE -- Water woes in Harare may soon be a thing of the past as the former sunshine city expects to receive within the next two weeks a $144 million loan from China to rehabilitate its ageing water treatment and distribution network. Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi told parliament’s Local Government Committee Tuesday that the city secured the funds from Chinese Export and Import Bank. ...

• Courage of Zimbabwe human rights lawyer captured in film | Rebecca Lowe

  Zimbabwe human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, as a young girl with her brother in Swaziland where she was born and raised Photograph: ...

• Zimbabwe election date tussle gets serious

  Opposition politicians say President Robert Mugabe is using a constitutional court's call for an early date to achieve an unconstitutional ...

• Water Crisis Hits Gweru as Gwenoro Dam Runs Dry

  GWERU -- The City of Gweru in Zimbabwe's Midlands province faces a critical water shortage as the city’s main water source, Gwenoro Dam, is running dry. Gweru’s Deputy Mayor Taurai Demo told Studio 7 the city’s main supply of raw water, is now just seven per cent full. Mr. Demo said as a result of the critically low water levels, council will have to decommission the ...

• A closer look at how Zimbabwes cattle bank works

  MARONDERA, Zimbabwe -- HOW A CATTLE BANK WORKS:- The bank sends a veterinary official to inspect a farmer's cattle and assesses their monetary worth.- Based on that, owners can get loans up to the value of the cattle they are banking as collateral. -The bank pays 10 percent interest a year on the value of the cattle deposited, which can be paid out in cash or additional cows.- Owners ...

• Parties Opposed to Zanu-PF Crafting Zimbabwe Grand Coalition

  WASHINGTON DC -- Five of President Robert Mugabe’s opponents are meeting in Harare today for the second time this month to try and form a grand coalition to challenge his 33-year stranglehold on ...

• Govt Urged to Improve Trade Infrastructure Links With SA

  ZIMBABWE needs to further develop transport and trade infrastructure links with South Africa to maintain Africa's biggest economy as its single most important trading partner, research findings have shown. This came from preliminary findings of a research carried out by Dr Medicine Masiiwa who had been commissioned by Ministry of Regional Integration and International Cooperation to ...

• Gvt Urged to Support Diamond Beneficiation

  A NUMBER of local diamond cutters and polishers have closed shop because they are not accessing the gems from miners, a latest report by a Portfolio Committee of Mines and Energy has said. In terms of the diamond policy adopted by the Government last year, a quota of locally produced diamonds should be made available for beneficiation by local cutters and polishers. The main objective of the ...

• President Zuma Attends SADC Summit in Maputo

  President Jacob Zuma has today, 15 June 2013, arrived in Maputo in the Republic of Mozambique to attend a Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extra-Ordinary Summit. The African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government held their Summit in May 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and considered progress in the implementation of decisions made during the Organ Troika Summit held in Cape Town ...

• SADC Respects Zimbabwes Early Election Date - By Simukai Tinhu

  On 15th the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) held an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe in Maputo. The main issue discussed was the 31st July election date set under the pretext of complying with the Constitutional Court's ruling that elections must be held by the end of July. The opposition and pro-democracy forces cried foul, and accused President Mugabe of subverting the ...

• Audit Highlights Funding Gaps in HIV Programmes in Zimbabwe

  There are several funding gaps in the HIV programmes supported by Global Fund grants to Zimbabwe that, if left unaddressed, will disrupt life-saving interventions and other key programme activities. This is one of observations made by the Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in a report on its audit of grants to Zimbabwe. The principal recipient (PR) for the grants is the ...

• My Song Outspoken on Miss Taken Identity

  "Men don't love themselves": a bold statement from the Zimbabwean rapper and slam poet Outspoken. In this edition of My Song, he talks about how his track 'Miss Taken Identity' not only addresses society’s treatment of women, but reveals how he himself became a better ...

• Zimbabwe journalists suffer attacks ahead of elections

  reported yesterday to be battling for his life in hospital. Three other attacks occurred ahead of the elections set for next month. Masvingo Mirror reporter Bernard Mapwanyire was manhandled by security staff acting for the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai (MDC-T), the political party that supports prime ...

• Zanu-PF Elections Directorate Set to Finalise Candidates List

  Zanu-PF'S National Elections Directorate will meet today to finalise the list of candidates who will contest primary elections on Monday next week before submitting it to the Politburo tomorrow for approval. Candidates who will emerge victorious in the primary elections will go represent the party in harmonised elections slated for July 31. Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo ...

• First Ladys Disgraceful Behaviour Slammed

  She prides herself as a "violent person", yet Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe wants to be seriously taken as "mother of the nation". As the multi-sectoral charitable foundation patron gleefully told South African television host Dali Tambo that she had "chased and pounded" a British photographer, the 47-year-old businesswoman's remarks have sparked ...

• No Joy for Dj Munyas Co-Accused

  TWO men alleged to be Star FM DJ Munyaradzi Milimo's accomplices in the murder of a Harare man, Mr Tinashe Magorimbo, were yesterday further remanded in custody pending their bail hearing today. Justice Joseph Musakwa deferred the hearing of Taurai Janhi and Hohammed Matare after the State filed its response late last Friday. The judge had not had sight of the response, although it had ...

• Mutasa Speaks On Guinea Defeat

  WARRIORS' assistant coach, Lloyd Mutasa, has blamed their chaotic travel arrangements for the senior team's latest defeat in a World Cup qualifier. Mutasa said it was always going to be difficult for the team to perform in Conakry on Sunday night following their botched trip to the Guinea capital. The Warriors with just 14 players, their German coach Klaus Dieter Pagels and ...

• Controversy Mars MDC-T Chinhoyi Primary Elections

  MDC-T primaries in Chinhoyi were fraught with controversy as aspiring candidates accused each other of bringing ineligible supporters to vote. The problem in Chinhoyi constituency in which sitting legislator Mr Stewart Garadhi (MDC-T) was trounced by former mayor and medical doctor Peter Mataruse over the weekend has led to infighting. Dr Mataruse is accused of employing dirty tactics including ...

• Dj Munya Suspected Accomplices Remanded in Prison

  Two men suspected to be Star FM DJ Munyaradzi Milimo's accomplices in the alleged murder of a Harare man Mr Tinashe Magorimbo have been further remanded in custody pending their bail hearing Tuesday. Justice Joseph Musakwa postponed the hearing of Taurai Janhi and Hohammed Matare after the State filed its response late on Friday which the judge had not yet seen. Milimo was last week freed ...

• Constitution to Improve Accountability

  The Southern African Parliamentary Support Trust has expressed optimism that the new Constitution will bring accountability in the management of public finances as it aligns with the Public Finance Management Act reforms. Speaking at a civic society organisations' budget coalition workshop organised by the National Association of Non-Governmental Orgnanisations in Harare last week,-- SAPST ...

• Pan-Africanism - Lets Walk the Talk

  The AU Golden Jubilee summit held last month in Addis Ababa was a momentous occasion that gave Africa's leaders an opportunity to reflect on Africa's successes and failures in the last 50 years. The founding fathers of the AU were passionate about the need for African unity. They believed in a united Africa that would wield a significant influence on the world stage both economically ...

• Zimbabwe Cattle Bank takes deposits that moo

  Zimbabwe's first "Cattle Bank" has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking where owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash ...

• Mooing 4-legged deposits at Zimbabwes unique Cattle Bank the first account for rural poor

  MARONDERA, Zimbabwe -- William Mukurazita's deposit at the bank has four legs and moos. Zimbabwe's first "Cattle Bank" has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking where owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash loans. For many rural poor in this southern African country once wracked by world-record inflation, it's the first bank account ...

• Hubby Yanks Wife Three Kids to Court

  A Harare man yesterday brought his wife and three children to the Harare Civil Court for ganging up against him and beating him with fists and an iron bar. Onismo Makovere filed a protection order application against his family; wife Chiedzo Roya, daughter Chiedza and two sons Blessing and his juvenile brother. Makovere suffered body injuries due to the assault. Magistrate Tendai Manhanzva ...

• SA to Increase Border Officials

  The South African government will this week deploy more immigration officers at Beitbridge border post to facilitate a speedy flow of both human and vehicular traffic entering or leaving that country, an official has said. The deployment follows an outcry from travellers over delays and congestion at that country's border for the last four weeks where travellers were spending an average of ...

• President Mourns Former Botswana First Lady

  ZIMBABWE could not have attained independence in 1980 without assistance from countries like Botswana and that history continues to bind relations between Harare and Gaborone, President Mugabe has said. Speaking after paying his condolences to Botswana's former president, Sir Ketumile Masire who lost his wife, Mrs Olebile Gladys Masire on May 18, the President said Zimbabwe and Botswana ...

• MDC-T Civil Society Allies Admit No Changes After Proclamation

  MDC-T and its coterie of lawyers who have been calling for reforms even after President Mugabe's proclamation setting July 31 as the date for harmonised elections, acknowledged that no further amendments to any electoral related law were possible in the wake of the Presidential proclamation. The admission is contained in the party's "Strategic Election Litigation" document ...

• Protect President Mugabes Signature Legacy

  While some people make history, others preserve and interpret it. A nation's net worth can sometimes be seen through how it looks at its yesterday, today and tomorrow. The British monarchy is expecting a baby who will be in line to be queen or king. Nations the world over revere and protect the legacies of their icons. In this regard, we feel that there is an issue that many of us take ...

• MDC-T Quartet Seeks Referral to Supreme Court

  The director of research in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office accused of compiling illegal dockets against Government officials, Thabani Mpofu, yesterday told the court that the compilation of the dockets did not constitute a criminal offence. Mpofu is jointly charged with Felix Matsinde, Mehluli Tshuma, all former public prosecutors, and Warship Dumba, a former Harare city ...

• Man Killed Over Honey

  A CHIREDZI man was at the weekend allegedly fatally struck with an iron bar by a fellow villager following a dispute over wild honey. Enock Chauke (19) of Wasara Ranch was found lying in a pool of blood by villagers near the place where the two men had stumbled upon wild honey while herding cattle. Police yesterday said they had since launched a manhunt for Sydney Zvechirimo also aged 19. ...

• Focus More On HIV Prevention - Stamps

  Health Advisor to the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps yesterday urged the Zimbabwe Aids Network, an umbrella body for Aids service orgaanisations to place more emphasis on prevention rather than focusing on supporting people who are living with the pandemic. Speaking at the launch of ZAN Taskforce, Dr Stamps urged members to strike a balance when it comes to implementing programmes that ...

• Myths of Media Security Reforms

  In Africa, particularly in countries that are viewed to be anti-West, such as Zimbabwe, non-state actors are proclaimed to be apolitical and non-partisan in nature. These organisations are highly perceived by Western governments as institutions founded on the principles of democratic oversight; a principle that inculcates a culture of power- balancing in governance issues that makes a nation ...

• Nation in Strong Position for Grand Prize

  THIS season of Big Brother Africa promises to be an exciting one for Zimbabweans. Only last year after we were booted out of the reality show following a brawl between Rockford Josphats and Maneta Mazanhi. This year's season is different. With two equally strong housemates, Hakeem Mandaza and Pokello Nare, it appears Zimbabwe is set for the big one. Only two weeks ago Hakeem was put up for ...

• Bulawayo Launches Carnival Parade

  Bulawayo last week launched the inaugural culture and heritage carnival parade to showcase the city's abundant cultural activities that have made the city a hub of the arts. A group of 40 artistes last week started rehearsals at Amakhosi Cultural Centre after BAT Zimbabwe confirmed it would sponsor the carnival section to be branded by the company. The carnival section will be identified ...

• Bring Manifestos Not Court Battles

  The die is cast about elections, but what is missing are the manifestos so that voters can digest what every political party stands for in these important elections, which will give voters a chance to banish sanctions for good. Those political parties that relied on sanctions to force the voter to support them on the back of the suffering of the ordinary citizens, the defining moment cannot ...

• Magiya Happy With Handball Preps

  ZIMBABWE Handball Federation secretary general, Alphios Magiya, is satisfied with the preparations by the teams set to take part in the Partille Cup early next month in Gothenburg, Sweden. The tournament, set to run from July 1 to 6, is the world's largest handball tournament for young people targeting both boys and girls. Zimbabwe will this year be represented by Morgan High, Girls High, ...

• 14 Get Nod to Contest On Zanu-PF Ticket

  Fourteen aspiring senators have been nominated to contest Zanu-PF primaries in Bulawayo Province. Each province is supposed to have six candidates for the Senate. However, the acting provincial secretary for administration, Cde Mandlenkosi Tshuma, said the party was yet to reveal the constituencies where the candidates would be contesting. "We have 14 candidates ready to contest in the ...

• Kadomas Date With Premiership Football

  THE people of Kadoma have waited for a long time for Premiership football but that all comes to an end tomorrow when Black Rhinos host Tripple B in a basement battle at Rimuka. Rhinos have shifted base and are now using Rimuka as their home ground where they hope to pick a lot of points, in their battle to survive the chop, and also get a bit of revenue from gate receipts. They are guaranteed ...

• President to Launch National Youth Policy

  President Mugabe is this week expected to launch the National Youth Policy which aims to empower youths to participate and contribute to the social, economic and political development of the country. Zimbabwe Youth Council director Mr Livingstone Dzikira told The Herald last Friday that President Mugabe would launch the policy at the Harare International Conference Centre. "We are happy ...

• Zupco to Launch Cargo Division

  THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company will launch a new cargo division during the last quarter of this year to support its traditional passenger business, chief executive Mr Brian Chawasarira said last week. In an interview, Mr Chawasarira said the company would spend "quite a substantial" amount in the business unit. "We are starting a cargo unit in the third quarter," said ...

• Mugabe agrees to push back poll date

  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe casts his vote for a referendum on a new constitution. Mugabe has agreed to push back the date for elections in Harare. File photo: ...

• Mtetwas Trial Moved to June 29th Ruling On MDC-T 29 Reserved

  The trial of top human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, who is facing charges of obstructing the course of justice, was on Saturday postponed to June 29th. Magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa postponed the matter citing a 'lack of time,' the Standard newspaper said on Sunday. Prosecutor Tawanda Zvekare was quoted by the paper as saying the cross examination of witnesses would continue at the ...

• Mining Laws Colonial - Mutambara

  ZIMBABWE has not benefitted significantly from exploitation of its abundant mineral resources because it did not change colonial mining laws to reflect the new dispensation on attaining political independence from Britain in 1980, a senior Government official has said. Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara said this at the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce annual congress in Victoria Falls ...

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