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ZIMBABWEAN Finance Minister Tendai Biti shocked the markets on Friday when he announced that Zimbabwe would re- evaluate all mining contracts and introduce a "use it or lose it" policy for its mining industry under a proposed law.
A visiting delegation from the Kimberley Process has just concluded a week long investigation into Zimbabwe's controversial diamond mining trade and found that the country's military and police were major contributors to the illegal activities, human rights abuses and murders that took place in the Marange diamond fields, despite denials by government officials.
Human rights groups in South Africa have slammed this weekend's arrest of more than 300 people, mainly Zimbabwean exiles, taking shelter at Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church.
The Zimbabwean coalition government cannot afford to repay debts incurred when President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF was ruling on its own and will not repay those debts.
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai - fresh from a lukewarm overseas trip to drum up material and financial support for the cash-strapped inclusive government - is under immense pressure from his inner cabal to pull out of the coalition if ZANU-PF remains intransigent about resolving niggling issues plaguing the transitional arrangement.
DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is one of the most energetic and emphatic members of the inclusive government. He is being accorded acres of space in the State media to rally the nation behind the coalition's efforts to revive Zimbabwe's comatose economy. Despite some rough edges to his personality, inevitably by-products from his days as a student activist, the learned Professor has been ...
With half her body immersed in muddy red water, Esther Nyarambi closely inspects the contents of her wooden panning dish, locally known as zamba.
THE more things seem to change, the more they remain stubbornly the same.
MORE than 15 000 A2 farmers are set to receive 99-year leases as the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement begins to implement the National Land Grand Audit plan.
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has apologised to President Mugabe for the boycott of last Monday's Cabinet meeting by ministers drawn from his party, MDC-T, which behaviour the President described as "insolence".
PRESIDENT Mugabe has described US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson as an idiotic little fellow for trying to lecture Zimbabwe on how to conduct affairs of State.
PRESIDENT Mugabe has applau-ded China for unconditionally extending a US$950 million credit facility to help Zimbabwe's economic recovery programme and blasted the West for insisting on conditions even as they render bits and pieces of aid to their agencies under the guise of assisting the people of Zimbabwe.
Principal Magistrate Peggy Madandume last week urged the state counsel to speed up investigations into a case in which a Zimbabwean man is facing a single count of obtaining goods by false pretences.
MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday dismissed attempts by ZANU PF to force the Kariba draft constitution on the people, saying it is up to the people to decide and no one should impose a solution on them.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti's office has denied reports that he contradicted Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's announcement of a US$950 million credit line from China.
The African Union (AU) is facing heavy criticism from international human rights groups, dignitaries and even some African governments, after the body last week resolved to ignore the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the arrest warrant of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
AFRICAN Sun Limited, Zimbabwe's largest hotelier, reported that occupancy rates for its city hotels in Zimbabwe surged to 1999 levels in the last two months as international visits to the country on investment-related business and humanitarian aid missions increased in the new political dispensation.
THE demerger of Kingdom Meikles Africa Limited (KMAL) took a new twist this week as BCA Consulting Services - the government appointed forensic auditor probing allegations of externalisation against the group - threatened to invoke the Prevention of Corruption Act arguing that the Meikles family cast an illegal vote at an extraordinary general (EGM) meeting that approved the unbundling of the ...
ZIMBABWE is going to have a new national constitution sooner or later. However, it is necessary to pose some relevant questions as to what kind of constitution should the country adopt in readiness for the next general elections and beyond.
POPULAR South African singer PJ Powers makes a welcome return to Harare this week for a show series at Reps Theatre, performing a range of songs that have helped make her a household name in entertainment throughout southern Africa during the past 25 years.
THE government has ejected civil servants from the Zimbabwe Investment Authority (ZIA) board and replaced them with technocrats in an effort to reposition the organisation for a more aggressive investment promotion role as the country pursues investment-led growth.
FORMER finance minister Simba Makoni launched his long-awaited opposition party, Mavambo-Kusile-Dawn (MKD), yesterday with promises of delivering real change to the country's treacherous political landscape.
MOBILE phone company Econet Wireless Zimbabwe this week took delivery of the first shipment of equipment from Swedish supplier, Ericsson, to expand its network capacity.
TRUST Bank Limited could make a comeback after the central bank opened discussions for an amicable resolution of an asset dispute over the takeover of the commercial bank at the height of a banking sector crisis in 2004, The Financial Gazette has established.
IF THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) does not want the inclusive government in Zimbabwe to fail, it must actively intervene to ensure full compliance with the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
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