adminZambezi Tour order of merit rivalry resumes
Takudzwa Chitsiga Sports ReporterTHE rivalry in the race to lead the Zambezi Tour order of merit resumes again this week when professional golfers converge in Hippo Triangle and Valley. The players will have a practice round ahead of the US$42 500 Lowveld Pro-Am tomorrow at Triangle and Hippo Valley courses with several local
Headmaster kills self over census
Midlands CorrespondentA headmaster at Mutsungi Primary School in Mberengwa District hanged himself when he was disqualified from training as a census enumerator after failing the prerequisite entrance test, police said yesterday. Aspiring enumerators were required to write a test and score at least 75 percent before
Mine shooting: SA police chief defiant
Police commissioner Riah Phiyega says officers shouldn’t be sorry about the shooting near Lonmin in Marikana, which left 34 protesting miners dead. “Safety of the public is not negotiable. Don’t be sorry about what happened,” Phiyega was quoted as saying by the Sowetan newspaperMurder, public violence charges levelled against suspects
PRETORIA, MARIKANA — The 259 men arrested after a deadly police crackdown at a South African platinum mine heard charges yesterday ranging from murder to public violence, in the first court hearing from the tragedy. All the men, except one who is hospitalised, were brought in groups beforeYouths prefer Motlanthe to Zuma: Probe
JOHANNESBURG — Young South Africans prefer Kgalema Motlanthe to Jacob Zuma as a presidential candidate, although neither of them are too popular, according to a survey released yesterday. “Given the choice of the two candidates, Kgalema Motlanthe is a clear winner,” said Butch Rice,Sri Lanka protests UK travel advisory
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is planning to protest a travel advisory issued by Britain, which it insists will adversely impact thousands of British tourists to the country, a top official said here yesterday. A recent travel advisory issued by the UK Foreign Office warns British citizens of an upsurge inEthiopian Airlines unveils Dreamliner
Walter Muchinguri and Faith Mabika
ONE of Africa’s fastest growing airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, yesterday unveiled its latest acquisition — the Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner in Harare.
The arrival of the giant 289-seater aircraft, the most technologically advanced commercial aircraft in the world, was a spectacle for both local and
Soiled notes cost banks
Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter
BANKS are incurring huge costs in repatriating the equivalent of 100 million rand (US$11,4m) in soiled notes every month, the Bankers’ Association of Zimbabwe has said. The banks said they were being levied about 1,25 percent for the value of the soiled notes returned to their countries of origin.
Uncertainities stifle economic growth
Martin Kadzere Senior Business ReporterZIMBABWE’S economic recovery appears to have stalled due to political and regulatory uncertainties, a local research firm has said. Invictus Securities, in its strategic outlook for 2012 report released last week, said implementation of the indigenisation policy and mixed messages from the inclusive
Strike-hit Lonmin shares slide
LONDON. — Shares in miner Lonmin slid for a sixth day yesterday, as investors fretted over the prospect of a cash call to shore up its balance sheet, and over the potential dismissal of 3 000 striking workers after a week of violence in which 44 people were killed. Lonmin, the world’s third-largest