adminProf Moyo hails media
Herald Reporter INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has commended the mainstream media for exposing abuse of public funds and assets by some boards and management elements…
9 Harare City Council bosses to lose jobs
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter NINE out Harare City Council’s 15 bosses are set to lose their jobs as the municipality downsizes its directorate. This is part of a raft of…
‘No new claims for diamond firms’
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter GOVERNMENT will not allocate new mining claims to companies extracting diamonds in Marange when they exhaust their present concessions.
AU stands by Zimbabwe
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter ZAMBIA’S Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Wylbur Simuusa has reiterated that African countries will not attend the EU-Africa Summit scheduled for Belgium in April if President Mugabe…
Zim/EU engage over sanctions
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter The business delegation which toured Europe last week called for lifting of European Union sanctions on Zimbabwe and urged the block’s leadership to normalise relations…
Ceasefire monitors for South Sudan
NAIROBI/JUBA. – A regional bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), yesterday dispatched its first team of observers to the conflict-affected South Sudan to monitor the ceasefire. A ceasefire has…
Soul Jah Love, wife in no show
Kumbirayi Shoniwa Entertainment Reporter The much hyped Zimdancehall show hosted by Aftershock Entertainment at Super Label Club in Harare was a full-house event and various artistes took to the stage…
How the French continue to live off Africa
Siji Jabbar Just before France conceded to African demands for independence in the 1960s, it carefully organised its former colonies (CFA countries) in a system of “compulsory solidarity” which consisted…
Gold miners raise red flag
Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter Gold mining companies are lobbying Government for a reduction in the rate of royalty and power tariffs applicable to the sector to avoid potential collapse…
It’s the Oscars — and yet again the winner slips away
John Pilger This is a “vintage year”, say Hollywood’s hagiographers on cue. It isn’t. Most movies are made to a formula for the highest return, money-fuelled by marketing and something…