By Kitsepile Nyathi – Harare — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has said that the impoverished country does not need financial support from the West to kick start its comatose economy. Mugabe’s remarks at a Zanu-PF central committee meeting in Harare came a week after the European Union demanded evidence of more progress in the implementation of a power sharing agreement he signed with his former arch rival and now Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai before normal ties are restored. The unity government has failed to perform to expectations because Western donors have refused to fund its programmes as they insist on... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 12th 2010 |
By Zimbabwe Reporter – CHIREDZI – The famous Colombian singer Shakira landed at Buffalo Range airport Sunday afternoon but no shows are lined up in Zimbabwe. Shakira is on a private visit and returns to South Africa Monday. She has been brought to Zimbabwe by Malilangwe proprietors which runs an adventure company in Gonarezhou, a game park in the lowveld. Fans could almost see her for a few moments but she vanished in just a few minutes in a Merc. Shakira, who did the “Waka Waka” the official song for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, was dressed in... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 5th 2010 |
By Novell Zwangendaba – JOHANNESBURG – Randburg-based visual artist, Benjamin Tuge is to say the least,a standalone talent. He is such a versatile sculptor, a master carver of thought-provoking woodcarvings , a satirical landscape and portrait painter, a spiritual scribe, and a visionary thinker. Born in 1 969 in Masvingo, a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of vaKaranga people. He was raised in a town close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name Zimbabwe. In this town Tuge endured a rural upbringing as an unknown herdboy and from humble beginnings as a... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 5th 2010 |
By Shout-Africa – HARARE, Zimbabwe – Police in Zimbabwe say 18 people have died and 30 have been seriously injured in a triple highway accident involving two buses and a truck. Police at the scene about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Harare reported the first bus rammed into a stationary truck and veered off the highway early Sunday, followed seconds later by a second bus colliding with the same truck. Thirteen people died on the main highway to the city of Bulawayo and five died during emergency treatment later. Bus accidents, common in Zimbabwe, are blamed on speeding, poor... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 5th 2010 |
By Ron Muvevererwa – Since the signing of the historic Global Political Agreement of September 15 2008 as it became to be known, bringing some form of parity between the warring political parties following the disputed elections of 2008, the coalition government has been dogged into a serious quagmire, wondering in the wilderness about the execution of its mandate. It is doomed by an engulfing crisis of assuming an identity and throughout its fragile life span this has been the Achilles hills threatening its existence. Analysts have coined expressions to describe the coalition government with some calling it a ‘marriage... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 4th 2010 |
