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A new bilateral investment protection treaty between Zimbabwe and South Africa, that is set to be signed later this month, will exclude farms that were expropriated by the Robert Mugabe regime during his chaotic land 'reform' programme.
The latest MDC-T newsletter carries a report saying that a dozen gun-toting soldiers ransacked an orphanage in Bulawayo last week and beat up children in the process. The soldiers went on the rampage in the Trennance suburb of the city, in what has been described as an operation to look for MDC supporters.
South African insurance giant Old Mutual, which this week admitted to being a major shareholder in Zimpapers, is now also set to reap its financial share of the Chiadzwa diamond fields.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called on the co-ministers of Home Affairs to resign their positions over the abuse of power being exercised by the police. After ZCTU President Lovemore Matombo and fours members of the union were released by a Victoria Falls magistrate, Secretary General Wellington Chibhebhe issued a hard hitting statement accusing police of acting on instructions from ...
COULD it be that Kingdom Financial Holdings Ltd founder Nigel Chanakira is against his management or it is that the institution is disintegrating? Eight senior managers at KFHL are planning to leave after former CEO Onias Makamba parted ways with the institution. Makamba received a golden handshake of US$200 000 from the banking group, businessdigest has established.
TELONE, the state-owned fixed-line monopoly, admitted to restricting calls from landlines to mobile operators to reduce its debts. TelOne owed more than US$22 million to mobile operators in interconnection fees, acting managing director Hampton Mhlanga told the Parliamentary Committee on Media, Information and Communication Technology last Thursday. Interconnection fees are paid between operators ...
NEGOTIATORS of political parties which signed the Global Political Agreement (GPA) last year are preparing to resume intense political bargaining to resolve a series of issues in dispute in what could turn out to be a renewed fierce battle of wills between the three main rival players. The outcome of the negotiations could make or break the shaky inclusive government which recently plunged into a ...
AFTER reading Jonathan Moyo's contribution which appeared in the Financial Gazette and was reproduced by the NewZimbabwe website in which he argued that the MDC's choice of Roy Bennett as Deputy Minister of Agriculture was treacherous, I came to the conclusion that the professor has lost it. I also realised that when desperation pushes a man to sing the loudest for his supper he surely never ...
IN any functional democracy, the electorate is supreme: It is the electorate's vote and voice that confers legitimacy on any government and any national leadership.
EARLY in the year, a high-powered South African business delegation visited Zimbabwe to assess opportunities following the formation of the unity government.
AFTER the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security met in Maputo on October 29 to deliberate on how best to alleviate the political impasse in Zimbabwe, one would have been permitted to be optimistic. The optimism would have been premised on a seeming shift in Sadc's approach to issues that the three political parties have defined as "outstanding" with regards to the Global Political Agreement ...
IT was generally agreed that Zimbabwe's recent 4-1 series defeat in the spin-haven of Bangladesh was not an accurate appraisal of their overall performance on the subcontinent. On different stages of the games they were in it, and with a little bit of luck they could actually have snatched the series. But what of the two ODIs in South Africa in familiar conditions this week?
LIKE most Zimbabweans, I was naturally delighted that the Warriors won the Cosafa Senior Challenge Trophy. Certain people think otherwise due to this newspaper's restrained coverage of the tournament and criticism of Zimbabwe coach Sunday Chidzambwa and his team.
WITH such emerging talents as Brian Mtawarira, the future of Zimbabwe rugby looked extremely bright.
ZIMBABWE will this month sign a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (Bippa) with South Africa, amid a farm ownership dispute between deputy Reserve Bank governor Edward Mashiringwana and a South African farmer, Louis Fick. Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Elton Mangoma this week told journalists that Harare and Pretoria would sign the long-awaited deal on ...
IT is a sweltering November afternoon and Guruve communal farmers ignore the heat, waiting for their turn to receive a bag of fertiliser and 15 kg of maize seed donated by the European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) through the Sustainable Agriculture Trust. Success or failure, the farmers know, depends on these inputs as they do not have their own resources to acquire ...
A VICTORIA Falls magistrate court yesterday threw out charges against Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Lovemore Matombo and four staffers who were arrested in the resort town on Sunday for allegedly holding a political meeting without police clearance. Magistrate Richard Ramaboea said the police had no business in disrupting the labour organisation's meeting.
DISPUTED Zanu PF Harare province elections have triggered a row that threatens to tear the party asunder, alienating the war veterans from the political leadership. The former freedom fighters and ex-detainees have declared war against the new Harare provincial leadership and anyone else in the party who supports what they described as "fraudulent" elections and a "dubious" restructuring exercise ...
GOVERNMENT and mining companies are heading for a collision over a proposed economic policy to raise mining royalties in the next six years. Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minister Elton Mangoma on Monday presented a draft economic plan that recommended an increase in royalty fees charged to miners. Proceeds generated from the royalties would establish a sovereign fund to hedge future ...
THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has publicly attacked Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and his party for siding with President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF during last Thursday's Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security mini-summit in Maputo. Addressing a rally on Sunday at Chibuku Stadium, Chitungwiza, Tsvangirai and his party's secretary-general Tendai Biti took turns to lambast Mutambara ...
LAST week this column addressed the tragic circumstance that, for most of the last 25 years, major players in Zimbabwe's governmental hierarchy have consistently pursued policies which have devastated the economy. They did so dogmatically, callously disregarding well-informed advices as to what needed to be done to assure a virile economy. They did so in pitiless contempt for the consequential ...
IS anyone sure of what the situation in the country will be in two months' time? This question does not necessarily need a response but only captures the level of uncertainty surrounding us.
DEFENCE lawyers in the banditry trial of MDC-T treasurer-general Roy Bennett want High Court judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu, to step down from the case because he ruled in 2006 that there was "overwhelming" evidence against Michael Hitschmann who is a state witness in the case. Bhunu will make a ruling on the application for recusal on Monday.
ZANU PF this week stepped up its efforts to block in the House of Assembly the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill which seeks to limit the powers of the central bank governor.
Mines have sought the intervention of Finance minister Tendai Biti in a bid to recover funds misappropriated by the central bank over the years, businessdigest can reveal. A Chamber of Mines letter seen by this paper sent to Biti appealed to the Finance minister to find ways of "expediting the payment of all funds outstanding to" its members.
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