Hollywood’s Weight Obsession ‘So Messed Up’
Carrie Fisher says movie bosses “don’t want to hire all of me” after being told to shed the pounds before filming began.STAR Wars actress Carrie Fisher has hit out at Hollywood’s obsession with weight...
View ArticleBNC slips to US$3,4 million loss
The company will remain with a leaner and more effective labour structure when it completes the ongoing rationalization and retrenchment process BINDURA Nickel Corporation (BNC) slipped to a US$3,4...
View ArticleChinese president arrives in Zimbabwe
Chinese president Xi JinpingCHINESE leader Xi Jinping has landed in Zimbabwe. He was met at the Harare International Airport by President Robert Mugabe, his two Vice Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and...
View ArticleAcquisition of Mimosa co-owner Aquarius to be competed next April
The price of platinum prices was at US$828 per ounce on Monday morningAQUARIUS Platinum, which jointly owns Zimbabwe’s Mimosa Mine in Zvishavane, expects the purchase of its assets by Sibanye Gold to...
View ArticleWorld Aids Day: Unite to sustain progress to getting to zero
Adolescent girls and young women aged between 15 and19 years old account for 71 percent of new HIV infections among this age group in sub-Saharan Africa.PANOS Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) is urging...
View ArticleZimbabwe eyes US$4 billion energy deals on Chinese president’s visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Robert MugabeZIMBABWE expects to sign agreements worth about US$4 billion for the upgrade and construction of four power plants with a combined electricity...
View ArticleMore trouble ahead: Analysts
Finance Minister Patrick ChinamasaECONOMIC analysts and commentators have projected a gloomy outlook for 2016, warning that the US$4 billion National Budget presented by Finance Minister Patrick...
View ArticleZimbabwe, South Africa trade war looms
Industry and Commerce Minister Mike Bimha.SOUTH Africa, Zimbabwe’s major trading partner exporting over 70 percent of its products into the country, has lodged a formal complaint to government over...
View ArticleDanger: Dull festive season ahead
The morale and spirit of Zimbabweans is already at its lowest ebb and this Christmas will be one of the worst everBULAWAYO — The end of the year in this part of the world has a special significance. It...
View ArticlePay upfront: Ruling party told
Zanu PF spokesman Simon Khaya MoyoVICTORIA FALLS — Owners of hotels and lodges in this resort town are demanding cash upfront from ZANU-PF delegates before they can avail their services during the...
View ArticleBlood, thunder ZANU-PF conference in offing
President Robert Mugabe and his vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa (left) and Phelekezela MphokoFROM tourists flocking in to get a view of one of the world’s natural wonders, to locals bustling to make...
View ArticleCommissioners bleeding Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has six independent constitutional commissions ONE of the drafters of the country’s new Constitution, former High Court judge, Justice Moses Chinhengo, says he is disappointed that political...
View ArticleZCTU, EMCOZ in labour act challenge
The High Court of Zimbabwe.THE country’s largest labour umbrella body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has applied to the High Court seeking to be joined as a party in the case in which...
View ArticleZimbabwe exporting power to Namibia
Minister of Energy Samuel Undenge DESPITE crippling power cuts that have intensified across the country — with indications that the worst is still yet to come —ZESA Holdings is exporting power to...
View ArticleGovt abandons the poor
Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick ChinamasaFINANCE and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has reneged on government’s decades-old promise to implement pro-poor...
View ArticleZANU-PF bigwigs’ jobs at risk
Vice President Emmerson MnangagwaWHILE ZANU-PF propagandists have ruled out the possibility of the ZANU-PF conference to be held in Victoria Falls next week turning into an elective indaba of some...
View ArticleTo ban or not to ban secondhand clothes imports?
Unscrupulous members of the uniformed forces are said to be colluding with bales racketeers, through intricately woven smuggling syndicates.Kenneth Matimaire MUTARE — A discussion over the recent ban...
View ArticleChinese slowdown to hit Zimbabwe
Finance Minister, Patrick ChinamasaA NEW report has said that an economic slowdown in China, the world’s second largest economy, would have significant implications on Zimbabwe’s economy, with the...
View ArticleChildren’s right to education violated
Primary and Secondary Education minister, Lazarus DokoraMANY Zimbabweans have been wondering against all wonders in the world what the hell Primary and Secondary Education minister, Lazarus Dokora, is...
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