Nicol leads batting blitz as New Zealand seal series win against Zimbabwe
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:05 -0500
New Zealand cruised to a 141-run victory over Zimbabwe after amassing 372 for 6 at the Cobham Oval here in the second one-day international , and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

Zimbabwe general's death shrouded in suspicion
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:55:37 -0500
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Testimony before an inquest into a Zimbabwean power broker's fiery death ended Monday, leaving the last hours of Gen. Solomon Mujuru's life shrouded in suspicion ...

'The Robert Mugabe of Fleet Street'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:41:54 -0500
Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, has been likened to Robert Mugabe in how he runs his news organisation (ParliamentTV) He may be famed for his foul-mouthed "Vagina Monologue" news ...

Exploit Property Sector for External Funding'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:32 -0500
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Gideon Gono, has advised government to harness the country's real estate sector in a bid to unlock international capital and quicken economic growth. ...

Presidential Race Gets Muddled Once More
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:30 -0500
CONTROVERSIAL businessman, Raymond Chamba, last week declared his intention to run in the coveted race for Zimbabwe's presidential polls likely to be held either this year or in 2013. Chamba, ...

Typhoid Exposes City Council
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:27 -0500
The recent outbreak of typhoid within the capital city, Harare, has brought with it immeasurable stress to both communities and the still-unwholesome public health delivery system, which is likely ...

Rencap Aborts Les Takeover
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:25 -0500
A UNIT of frontier markets business giant, Renaissance Group, has aborted its plans to acquire a local stock broking firm over controversial indigenisation and empowerment regulations, The Financial ...

EU Visit Tests Govt Resolve
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:23 -0500
Bulawayo - A four-day working visit by a European Union (EU) delegation to the second city, which ends today, has put ZANU-PF in a tight corner as it attempts to gain the Matabeleland vote ahead of ...

Gono - Bearer of Mixed Tidings
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:21 -0500
On Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Gideon Gono, was the bearer of uncomfortable news: Several downside risks in the country's fragile economy are likely to have potentially ...

If Such Service Malfunction Can Happen for the General...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:18 -0500
Whether General Solomon Mujuru's death did or did not have criminal intent, is not yet conclusive. It is still to be ascertained by the ongoing inquest. But what is already conclusively ...

Embassies in Terrible State
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:16 -0500
HARD times continue for Zimbabwe's foreign missions amid concerns regarding the terrible state of most of the country's embassies across the globe. A Parliamentary report reviewing the ...

Bata to Increase Production
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:14 -0500
Gweru - The country's biggest shoe manufacturer, Bata Shoe Company, is to increase output in the next six months after importing new shoe manufacturing equipment. The company is currently ...

Bloodbath in Councils . . . As Chombo Takes Poll Fight to MDC-T
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:12 -0500
COMMISSIONS to run the country's troubled cities, including Harare, are on the cards as Local Government, Urban and Rural Development Minister, Ignatius Chombo, moves to stamp out rampant ...

Global Fund Cancellation Jeopardises Health Sector
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:08 -0500
THE termination of funding by the Global Fund could jeopardise Zimbabwe's under-funded health sector in the next two years, stakeholders cautioned this week, amid fears of a reversal in the ...

Wetlands Integral to Survival
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:04 -0500
Over 50 years ago, in 1961, Pope John XXIII reminded the world of the need to care for Creation when he explained, "Genesis relates how God gave two commandments to our first parents: to ...

Leveragng On ICT in Education, Training
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:00 -0500
In continuing with the discussion on the major issues to mediate the business environment in 2012, I highlighted in my seminal article that Zimbabwe continues to make inroads in the use of ...

Cost of Illegal Gold Panning
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:58 -0500
OVER the years, vast tracts of land have been dug up and gaping holes left in the earth as panners scour the country for its vast gold resources. More finds of the yellow metal along rivers and the ...

ZABG Scouts for Investor
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:55 -0500
THE Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group (ZABG) says it is on the verge of agreeing a deal with an unidentified foreign investor to inject capital into the troubled banking unit. The bank, owned by ...

GMB Embarks On Compulsory Retrenchment
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:53 -0500
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has embarked on a compulsory retrenchment programme after a significant number of its workers did not respond to a voluntary retrenchment exercise announced last ...

They Are Messing Left, Right and Centre, Comrades
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:50 -0500
Comrades, I am back and as effervescent, strong and flourishing as ever! Whoever invented this wonderful thing called annual leave was a real genius, I can tell you. After a few weeks away from ...

Surge in Entertainment Activities Lures Investors
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:47 -0500
Bulawayo - Leading South African-based recreational service provider, Decor8, is to set up base in Zimbabwe buoyed by increased corporate expenditure on leisure activities in the country. The ...

Veteran Newsman Chakaodza Dies
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:45 -0500
VETERAN newsman and The Financial Gazette's prolific columnist Bornwell Chakaodza (59) has died, following a courageous fight against cancer, which was first diagnosed in 2008. Chakaodza died ...

Uncertainty Shrouds 2012 Cotton Marketing
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:42 -0500
AFTER receiving an early Christmas present last year, cotton farmers are once again faced with a tough year as the volatility of the cotton markets has led to the decline in international pri-ces, ...

Biti Dispels Food Shortage Fears
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:40 -0500
Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, has dismissed fears of severe food shortages in most drought-prone areas of the country, assuring the nation of adequate grain reserves to feed everyone despite a ...

China to Rehabilitate Harare-Mutare Road
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:38 -0500
CHINA, through its private sector, has expressed interest in rehabilitating the 262km Harare-Mutare highway. Chinese ambassador, Xin Chunkang, said private sector investors from his country were ...

Selecting Customer Services Oriented Employees
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:35 -0500
Business organisations thrive on the goodwill of customers. But how efficient are organisations in serving customers? The level of customer satisfaction in your organisation is directly related to ...

RBZ Warns On Debt
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:33 -0500
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) this week warned that the country's ballooning external debt will undermine efforts to mobilise lines of credit which are critical for economic recovery. RBZ ...

Zim treason charges for viewing Egypt on TV
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:48 -0500
The Robert Mugabe government on 19 February ordered the arrest of 46 activists attending a meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation at which footage of the Egypt protests were ...

Zimbabweans "missing" after Egypt party
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:46 -0500
Five young Zimbabweans have gone "missing" after celebrating the victory of the Egyptian revolution. The five opposition supporters are believed to be in ...

Zimbabweans in SA get extended deadline
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:45 -0500
Up to 1.3 million Zimbabweans living in South Africa risked deportation during the coming weeks, many because Harare authorities did not have the capacity to provide them with passports. Now, they ...

Record Zimbabwe debts to Equatorial Guinea
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:42 -0500
Equatorial Guinea has emerged as one of Zimbabwe's main creditors following massive unpaid oil deliveries since the surrender of coup plotter Simon Mann from Harare to Malabo in ...

US was against Zim unity govt
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:40 -0500
In a 2007 report from the US Embassy in Harare, a possible national unity government in Zimbabwe is described as "less attractive." President Robert Mugabe is called "the devil" ...

Body Fitness Centre Owner Dismisses Rumour
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:18 -0500
BODY Fitness Centre owner Knox Mapfungautsi has dismissed the rumour spreading in the city that his gym is closing. Mapfungautsi said the gym is still operating and encouraged its members to come ...

Bank Ready to Fund City Water Projects
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:16 -0500
THE Development Bank of Southern Africa is committed to funding Harare's water demand management projects at a cost of US$39 million, the bank's water and sanitation specialist Engineer ...

Manicaland Steps Up Preps for 21st February Movement Celebrations
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:14 -0500
Mutare - MANICALAND Province has stepped up preparations for the 21st Movement Celebrations to be graced by secretaries general of liberation movements from Sadc. The commemorations are held ...

Live-in Girlfriend Charged for Chief's Murder
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:12 -0500
Mutare - A CHIPINGE chief's live-in girlfriend last week reportedly fatally struck him with a machete, accusing him of infidelity. Chief Mpungu of Chisumbanje was buried last Wednesday after ...

Thief Gets 15 Years
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:09 -0500
Masvingo - A 43-YEAR-OLD Bikita thief and jailbird has been sentenced to an effective 15 years for breaking into 108 houses as he unleashed terror in Masvingo city. An ex-convict, Smart Taru of ...

The Warriors and the Zifa Curse
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:07 -0500
If we go by Zifa's formula of handling Asiagate, then Pakistan would not have a cricket team today simply because there was match-fixing when they last toured England. But, in the Pakistan ...

Thieving Councillor to Do Unpaid Work
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:05 -0500
AN MDC-T Domboshava councillor Dominic Shongedza will perform 350 hours of community service for stealing US$1 240 mobilised by villagers to buy farming inputs. Shongedza (50) who has previous ...

Bwititi's Burial Set for Concession Today
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:02 -0500
FORMER Chronicle, Manica Post and Southern Times editor Makuwerere Bwititi who died in Namibia last Sunday will be buried in Concession today. A church service was held at a local funeral parlour ...

PM's Office Senior Official Bashes Wife - Police
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:00 -0500
THE director of policy implementation in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office has been arrested on allegations of assaulting his wife after he was found with a girlfriend at Mabelreign ...

Botswana Meat Commission Talk Big Ahead of Moneybags Clash
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:57 -0500
Zvishavane - BOTSWANA Meat Commission, who arrived in Zvishavane on Thursday evening, say they are going to give FC Platinum a good run in a friendly at Mandava this afternoon. The team has three ...

Local Boy Set to Star for Scots in Six-Nations
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:55 -0500
ZIMBABWE-BORN eighthman David Denton will this afternoon make his inaugural starting XV appearance for Scotland when they host rivals England in the RBS Six Nations rugby opener at Murrayfield. The ...

DJ Malaika Back in Town
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:52 -0500
AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 2000 news and information items daily from over 130 African news organizations and our own reporters to an ...

Govt, Iran to Strengthen Relations
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:48 -0500
TWO visiting Iranian high-ranking officials have pledged to strengthen ties between their country and Zimbabwe. Iranian Vice President responsible for Management and Human Capital Development Dr ...

Cricket-New Zealand v Zimbabwe 2nd ODI - scoreboard
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:21:32 -0500
Scoreboard after New Zealand beat Zimbabwe by 141 runs at Cobham Oval in Whangarei on Monday in the second of three one-day international matches. Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to field ...

A Warrior Who Became a Leopard
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:33 -0500
I am still around because now I am 26 years. I hope to play as long as I am injury-free and in good health. I am concentrating on my game and if the call-up comes, obviously I will embrace it. Who ...

Pathologists Differ On Mujuru
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:29 -0500
GENERAL Solomon Mujuru was alive when fire gutted his farmhouse and might have died from inhaling carbon monoxide, a local pathologist said yesterday. However, a South African pathologist hired by ...

First Street Mall - It's Gone to the Dogs
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:25 -0500
A PREACHER shouted messages of hope and deliverance on one end, while on the other a woman donning dingy and sun-baked clothes used her piercing voice to draw customers to her cellphone recharge ...

Creating a Formidable Zeitgeist
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:20 -0500
Thank God the rules require the winner to enjoy two-third support of Africa. Ping was far from getting that, thanks largely to Sadc which voted as a block on both occasions. Then Zuma gracefully ...

Whose Voice Has Been Amplified
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:16 -0500
By granting the Zimbabwe Newspaper Group and known ZANU (PF) supporters broadcasting licenses the already compromised Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has shown its patronage and the voice it ...

Foreign Newspapers to Be Banned
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:00:40 -0500
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has reportedly enlisted the service of the police in a bid to stop foreign newspapers without local offices from circulating. Publications that might be affected ...

NZ cruise to 141-run win over Zimbabwe
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:01:59 -0500
Opener Rob Nicol smashed 146 and allrounder Jacob Oram hounded Zimbabwe mercilessly with bat and ball as New Zealand cruised to a 141-run win in the second one-day match in ...

New Zealand vs. Zimbabwe Result
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:32:55 -0500
WHANGAREI, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand beat Zimbabwe by 141 runs on Monday in the second limited-overs cricket international at Cobham Oval: New Zealand: 372-6 (Rob Nicol 146, Martin Guptill ...

Western Media Brainwashed us
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:37 -0500
From times past, it has been impossible to get a good man down, yet it is in this instance that an issue arises that pertains to the qualities that do determine or define a good man though these ...

Farmers Cry Foul Over GMB's Handling of Inputs
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:34 -0500
FARMERS have accused the Grain Marketing Board of conniving with politicians and other influential people to abuse inputs meant to benefit the majority of Zimbabweans. This has affected production ...

Zambezi Express Delights Theatre-Goers
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:32 -0500
Zambezi Express roared at Harare's Reps Theatre when it opened last Tuesday and delighted an appreciative crowd. The 90-minute musical opens with the introduction of a young boy named ...

HIFA to Post Video Clips On Internet
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:30 -0500
THE Harare International Festival of the Arts will soon upload video clips of performances staged over the last three years on the Internet as it seeks to bring the festival to wider audiences. ...

Police Smash Housebreaking Syndicate
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:25 -0500
Beitbridge - POLICE in Beitbridge have smashed a housebreaking syndicate and arrested four suspects in connection with 10 cases in the border town. Three members of the group were arrested last ...

Mutodi, Utakataka Strike Deal
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:23 -0500
UTAKATAKA Express band leader Peter Moyo has agreed to sell off two of his band members, Spencer Khumulani and Gift "Shiga Shiga" Katulika, to Energy Mutodi's Real Sounds of Africa in ...

Macheso, Mjintu Bury the Hatchet
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:21 -0500
Former Orchestra Mberikwazvo rhythm guitarist Innocent Mjintu, who left Alick Macheso's band after being fired for secretly recording an album, is expected to return into the Extrabasso's ...

Retrospective Exhibition of Rashid Jogee's Works
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:19 -0500
It is gratifying to note that the national Gallery of Zimbabwe has spread its tentacles beyond the capital city of Harare and are commemorating the works of a great Bulawayo-based Zimbabwean artist ...

Bid to Defeat Course of Justice Backfires for Granny
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:17 -0500
A Karoi magistrate last Friday sentenced a 60-year-old woman from Nyangawe area, Hurungwe, to two months in jail for trying to defeat the course of justice. Magistrate Robson Finsin had sentenced ...

Prison Guard Kills Self in Front of Inmates
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:15 -0500
A PRISON guard stationed at Chikurubi Prison Farm blew his head off in front of inmates he was guarding last Tuesday. The inmates at the correctional facility are said to have scurried for cover ...

Cold Comfort School Saga Rages On
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:13 -0500
The Cold Comfort Primary School saga rages on amid revelations this week that the Trust no longer owns the property. This is contrary to claims by former Cold Comfort Farm Trust chairman Cde ...

Danhiko Gets U.S.$2 000 Goods
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:11 -0500
The Red Cross Society has donated blankets and soap valued at US$2 000 to disabled children at Danhiko Project. Speaking at the handover ceremony last week, Red Cross nat-ional president Mr ...

Country's Moscow Embassy Official Dies
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:09 -0500
Zimbabwe's third secretary at its Moscow embassy in Russia, Ms Mavis Mabuya, has died. She was 46. In a statement yesterday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Ms Mabuya died while on duty ...

'More Typhoid Outbreaks Imminent'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:54 -0500
Chinhoyi - GOVERNMENT says the typhoid outbreak is under control, but is worried that some of the cases could have evolved to carrier state, making prospects of further outbreaks imminent. More ...

Council Must Protect Wetlands
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:52 -0500
In the past, Harare had several wetlands and very critical to the drainage system, yet, when you travel around the city and its suburbs today, the poodles have disappeared and now manifest ...

Investigate GMB's Distribution of Inputs
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:51 -0500
WE find it difficult to accept the Grain Marketing Board's claim that the distribution of inputs in the provinces was above board. The outcry from the provinces is too pronounced to be ...

Econet Engineers Up for Murder
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:37 -0500
SOME Econet engineers have been implicated in the murder of an undisclosed number of security guards manning network boosters in Harare and subsequently stealing the company's diesel and ...

Infrastructure Key to Enterprise Development
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:34 -0500
For the sustainable growth of any economy to be achieved, it is desirable to create an enabling environment to ensure that the objectives are met. While economists may come up with varying ...

Masvingo Approves U.S.$13 Million Mini-Hydro Power Station
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:31 -0500
Masvingo - THE Masvingo Rural District Council has approved a US$13 million mini-hydro power project at Lake Mutirikwi Great Zimbabwe Hydro-Power Company had applied for the establishment of the ...

Firm Ordered to Reinstate 296 Workers
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:29 -0500
The Labour Court has ordered Lifestyles Zimbabwe Furnishers (LZF) to reinstate 296 workers it laid off in 2005. The workers were employed in four different companies owned by LZF and were made to ...

Showdown Looms At Innscor
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:23 -0500
A SHOWDOWN is looming between Innscor Africa and some of its workers that were running its Total Zimbabwe-franchised fuel dealership over alleged attempts to transfer them to new franchisees without ...

Eldore Acquires Lonely Gold Mine
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:21 -0500
THE long-defunct Lonely Gold Mine in Bulawayo could soon resume operations following a move by ElDore Mining Corporation (EDM) to acquire the mine. Australian Stock Exchange-listed EDM last week ...

Local Diamonds Shake Market
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:18 -0500
MARANGE diamonds have brought stiff competition on the international market, causing prices to fall sharply, especially in India. This has left traditional giants like De-beers in a quandary. ...

Ministry Seeks to Improve Labour Market Governance, Curb Abuse
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:13 -0500
THE Ministry of Labour and Social Services is putting in place a five-year strategic plan to improve labour market governance and curb abuse of members' contributions by union leaders. The head ...

The CEO's Pay, Bonuses Should Not Be a Cause for Concern
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:11 -0500
The unfolding dramas in general meetings, boardrooms, labour unions, protesters, media, and government institutions relating to CEO pay and bonuses, gives an impression of a villain caught red ...

Let's Use Sustainable Renewable Energy Sources
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:08 -0500
Just like any other developing nation, Zimbabwe now requires more power to satisfy rising industrial and domestic needs. Undeniably and regrettably so, increasing demand, seen growing 29 percent ...

Mhangura Mine Set to Reopen
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:05 -0500
Chinhoyi - MHANGURA Copper Mine, which closed more than a decade ago, is on the verge of reopening following expression of interest by at least three unnamed investors. The overtures follow ...

DIARY-Southern & South Africa to March 2013
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:38:23 -0500
PRETORIA - South Africa auctions 700 million rand of the 2017 bond, 700 million of the 2026 bond and 700 million rand of the 2041 bond. 0900 ...

New Zealand set Zimbabwe daunting target in ODI cricket
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:37:57 -0500
AFP © <p>New Zealand's Rob Nicol (L) during the one-day match against Zimbabwe on Febuary 6. A powerful 146 off 134 balls by Nicol led a NZ batting onslaught which produced 372 for ...

Black Caps vs Zimbabwe one off test McLean Park, Napier
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:07:17 -0500
Line ups Black Caps 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Ross Taylor (capt), 5 Dean Brownlie, 6 Daniel Vettori, 7 BJ Watling (wk), 8 Doug Bracewell, 9 Tim Southee, 10 ...