ED arrives for global indaba
President Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, where topical issues that include climate change, renewable energy and environmental sustainability will be discussed.
He was met at John F Kennedy International Airport by Zimbabwe Permanent Representative to the UN Dr Fredrick Shava, his deputy Mrs Kumbirai Taremba and senior staff at the mission.
Let’s unravel truth about the ‘abductions’
In a predictable fashion typical of a scripted docudrama, Zimbabwe woke up to the news of medical practitioner, Dr Peter Magombeyi, having disappeared last Sunday morning. Dr Magombeyi is said to have texted his colleagues that he had been ‘abducted’ by unknown men.
ED urges farmers to plant early
Farmers should work hard during the 2019/2020 summer cropping season to restore the country’s food-secure status, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.
Big companies nailed over soaring prices
Galloping prices of basic commodities, which were experienced in the past week, were caused by big companies that injected cash on the parallel market causing volatility in the exchange rate, but corrective measures by Government has yielded instant results, Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu has said.
Unwriting Mugabe’s white narrative
They thought Mugabe was their poodle and confused his love for cricket, exquisite suits and tea as proof of his undying love of all things British. They were wrong. Mugabe was never a British poodle. He was a statesman, who treaded a very cautious path in the early years of the country’s independence.
Tuku bash: Daisy creeps out of her shell
LEGENDARY artiste, the late great Dr Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi would have turned 67 today.
As was his custom, Tuku would have a series of interviews with journalists on his birthday and throw lavish parties, sometimes in triplicates.
LET’S DO IT PROPER – ANTIPAS
AFTER sobering up from what would have been the most embarrassing moment in his otherwise illustrious coaching career, interim Warriors coach Joey Antipas, now wants things done better.
Whodunnit? And Why?
Two of the country’s dumbest and dummest criminals — Alexio Chibwana and Obvious Tembo — will not only be in the slammer for the next two years, but they will definitely be immortalised in the Hall of Infamy as well.
On one idle day in April this year, these morons from Mkoba, Gweru, decided to arm themselves with a machete and waylaid a hapless Hilary Watsikiwa, who had just disembarked from a commuter omnibus.
Water crisis: Residents bear brunt of inept council
As the country is in the throes of the worst drought in the past four decades, provision of potable water for human beings and livestock in both rural and urban areas, particularly urban settlements, has become desperately urgent.
The crisis is being keenly felt in the capital, Harare, where the Harare City Council (HCC) has since scaled back supplies ostensibly because of “failure by users (ratepayers) of municipal services to meet their end of the bargain.”
Zim to ratify trade pact with UK
Zimbabwe will soon ratify a bilateral trade agreement with the United Kingdom (UK) to secure favourable trade terms ahead of Britain’s expected exit from the European Union (EU).
As the UK is preparing to leave the EU, Zimbabwe has already drafted a bilateral trade agreement in preparation for Brexit to strengthen the already existing trade relationship.











