adminBank charges: No reprieve in sight
Tawanda Musarurwa Business ReporterACTING Finance Minister Gorden Moyo says a review of high bank charges and interest rates was unlikely soon, as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe had not taken decisive steps to address the issue. The Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe have both condemned the prevailing high
Zim eyes 10 000MW power output
Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE plans to raise power output to 10 000 megawatts in line with targets for a US$100 billion economy by 2040. The Government was thus committed to continue investing in new power generation capacity to close the supply gap. Addressing the Mining Indaba last week, Zimbabwe Energy
Written Shona poetry in crisis
Memory ChirereIt is my subjective view that considered against work from yesteryear, some recent poetry anthologies in Shona leave a lot to be desired. The craft and message have drastically gone down. These contemporary group anthologies tend to carry poems that are contrived. Few of these poems
Know your author: Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was born in the French colony of Martinique on July 20, 1925. His family occupied a social position in Martinican society that could reasonably qualify them as part of the black bourgeoisie. Frantz’s father, Casimir Fanon, was a customs inspector and his mother, EléanoreA challenge to journalism
Ricardo AlarcónThe United States government seriously violated the constitution and the law to guarantee the unfair sentences of the Five Cuban patriots who will soon arrive at 14 years of arbitrary and illegal punishment. This was not an isolated event, but rather a systematic effort during the whole process
Protests against Japan’s ‘island purchase’ continue
BEIJING — There have been more calls both on — and off-line for rational expressions of patriotism as protests against Japan’s purchase of the Diaoyu Islands continued yesterday, drawing participants in more Chinese cities. In Guangzhou, capital of the southern province of Guangdong,Iran has no military presence in Syria
TEHRAN — Iran does not have any military presence in Syria, Iranian Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said yester- day. Talking to reporters, Jafari said that some of IRGC’s Quds forces are in Syria, but it does not mean that Iran is militarilyMan assaults magistrate, prosecutor in court
Midlands CorrespondentA Gweru magistrate sustained a fractured leg while a prosecutor was left with bruises when an accused person ran amok, jumped out of the dock and assaulted the court officials for denying him bail. The incident occurred at the Gweru Old prison Complex on Wednesday afternoon. Sources said
Zimbabwe don’t look good
Jeffrey MurimbechiZIMBABWE have done very little to suggest that they will brew up a shocker when they take on hosts Sri Lanka in the opening game of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in Hambantota tomorrow. Two defeats in their warm-up matches against Ireland and Bangladesh have left more questions than
Charamba wins AON tourney
Takudzwa Chitsiga Sports ReporterTONGO Charamba won the inaugural AON Invitational golf tournament after he shot a three-under-par 69 at Royal Harare last Friday. The tournament featured the top 12 players on the Zambezi Tour order of merit and three others invited by the sponsors. Charamba — who is improving with each