adminCZI seeks legal advice on Zesa tariff reversal
Golden Sibanda Senior Business ReporterTHE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries is seeking legal advice to enforce an Administrative Court order directing power utility Zesa Holdings to reverse the 31 percent electricity tariff increase effected in
Haddon Motors in violent demo
Wenceslaus Murape Business Reporter
HADDON Motors workers yesterday staged a demonstration that later turned violent after learning that the company, which had initially sought to retrench them, had been granted a provisional
US$80 000 gold deal goes awry
Senior Court ReporterA HARARE man who allegedly swindled his Israeli friend of US$80 000 in a botched gold milling machine deal yesterday appeared in court charged with fraud. Collin Fuller (54) who was represented by Mr
Manager awards self unauthorised US$19 000
Court ReporterA finance manager at Colcom reportedly swindled the company of more than US$19 000 using unauthorised petty cash vouchers. Kenias Horonga (45) was not formally charged when he appeared
Wife collapses as hubby is jailed 2 years
Senior Court ReporterA Harare woman yesterday collapsed at the Harare Magistrate Court after her husband, an unlicensed commuter omnibus driver was sent to jail for two years. The pregnant woman had to be lifted from the
Prosecution wants CAPS boss to remain in custody
Court ReporterThe prosecution yesterday said the CAPS Holdings chairman Fredrick Mutanda accused of swindling the pharmaceutical firm of more than US$25 million should remain in custody pending indictment for trial at
UK stuntman breaks world record for swallowing knives
A sword swallower from Isle of Wight, England has broken a world record by plunging two curved knives down his throat. Daredevil Ian Brown (29) held the fearsome weapons down for 13 seconds — the
Editorial Comment: Zesa should manage load-shedding better
Zesa seem determined to make Christmas miserable for many, pulling out generators totalling 235MW of capacity at a time for maintenance and repair and so plunging thousands more families
History: What is Africa doing with it
Ben Okri
History is like a nightmare we wake up from after a struggle and blink in stupefaction at the strangeness of daylight. With awakening a great energy is freed; a new question is posed: the
Live democracy, don’t profess it
Tafara Shumba
When I visited my home village last month, my attention was immediately captured by the striking calligraphic words, “Apostolic Faith in God” inscribed on a new building at the business centre. Upon