Zimbabwe Owing 2015 AU Subsciption: R600 Million Needed To Settle, Foreign Missions Debt

Zimbabwe Owing 2015 AU Subsciption: R600 Million Needed To Settle, Foreign Missions Debt

Zimbabwe has not yet been able to pay its 2015 annual subscription to the AU although President Robert Mugabe is the current chairman of the organisation. Nor can it pay its rent at most of its 45 missions around the world and it has not paid its foreign staff for much of this year, according to the parliamentary portfolio committee on foreign affairs, which this week heard reports of the sorry state of Zimbabwe’s diplomatic…

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Over 200 Bulawayo’s ‘Old Nic Mine’ Workers Sent Home As Zesa Cuts Power To Mines

MORE than 200 workers at Old Nic Mine in Killarney, Bulawayo have been sent home amid indications that more mines are facing closure following the directive by Zesa to reduce their power consumption by 25 percent. Olympus Golden Mines Limited, which owns Old Nic Mine, Golden Quarry Mine in Shurugwi, Venice Mine in Kadoma and Turk Mine in Inyathi, announced on Monday that it was sending all the workers at the Bulawayo mine on unpaid…

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Mps denied Full Access To Mining Sector, Especially Marange Diamond Mines

Mps denied Full Access To Mining Sector, Especially Marange Diamond Mines

MPs are being denied full access to the mining sector particularly the goings on in the Marange diamond mines, Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has reported. CNRG said MPs have been excluded from mining decisions and it appears information is a preserve of the executive. In its report which was launched Wednesday, the NGO said the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy was denied the right to exercise its oversight role on Marange…

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Zimbabwean White Farmers Start Anew In Chimoio, Mozambique

Zimbabwean White Farmers Start Anew In Chimoio, Mozambique

  CHIMOIO: A middle-aged white man wearing a khaki shirt and shorts stands on a flat, fertile piece of land surrounded by a group of young black men in bright orange uniforms. Bill Creswell, 58, owns a farm in the agricultural town of Chimoio in Mozambique’s Manica province. The young men in uniform are his employees. Altogether about 45 of them are working the fields. Creswell is one of more than 50 white farmers who…

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Budget Airline ‘Fly Africa’ Surrenders Its Zimbabwe Operating License

Budget Airline ‘Fly Africa’ Surrenders Its Zimbabwe Operating License

Fly Africa’s operations have been suspended after the airline surrendered its operating licence due shareholding disputes and failure to meet statutory requirements.   The low cost airline’s planes have been grounded after the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) suspended the airline’s operations.   Earlier this week, the airline surrendered its operating licence citing operational challenges.   Close sources say the decision to surrender the operating licence is a result of boardroom squabbles and shareholding…

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Philip Chiyangwa, Temba Mliswa To Face Off In Zifa Presidency Race?

Philip Chiyangwa,  Temba Mliswa To Face Off In Zifa Presidency Race?

ZANU-PF politician and businessman, Philip Chiyangwa, and former chairman for the ruling party in Mashonaland West, Temba Mliswa, look set to go head to head in Zifa Presidency elections after Mliswa also entered the race to occupy the hot seat at number 53 Livingstone Avenue. The ZIFA elections will be conducted on the 5th of December. Chiyangwa and Mliswa looks like do not see eye to eye after Chiyangwa said Mliswa is no saint having…

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‘Zanu PF Grabbing Land From Poor, Parcelling To Tycoons,Like Billy Rautenbach’ Mangoma

‘Zanu PF Grabbing Land From Poor, Parcelling To Tycoons,Like Billy Rautenbach’ Mangoma

ZANU PF is trying to reverse the country’s independence by grabbing vast tracts of land from the poor and parcelling it out to tycoons such as Green Fuel financier Billy Rautenbach, the opposition Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) party has said. RDZ national spokesperson, Pishai Muchauya, said party leader Elton Mangoma has nothing to do with disturbances taking place in Chinyamukwakwa area, saying locals were only expressing their anger. Rautenbach, last week accused Mongoma, energy…

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R&B Star ‘Tinashe’ (22), Poses For Playboy Magazine

SEXY songstress Tinashe is the latest star to pose for Playboy magazine – but she’s fully clothes.   For anyone who had doubts about Playboy’s move to discontinue the use of nude photographs, the November issue will put them to bed.   Although she’s fully clothed in her new photoshoot, Tinashe still managed to flaunt her curves an exude seductiveness.   The R&B star, whose father is from Zimbabwe, was featured in the Becoming Attraction’…

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‘African Americans Are Very Lazy, Lamenting How They Were Discriminated’ Donald Trump

‘African Americans Are Very Lazy, Lamenting How They Were Discriminated’  Donald Trump

ONCE again, US business magnate Donald Trump has expressed his deep disgust for Africans by referring to them as lazy fools only good at eating, lovemaking and thuggery.   Speaking in Indianapolis, Trump who is also the republican Presidential torch bearer, reiterated his promise to deport Africans especially those of Kenyan origin including their son Barrack Obama.   “African Americans are very lazy. The best they can do is gallivanting around ghettoes, lamenting how they…

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Former Zimbabwe Warriors Coach ‘Rahman Gumbo’ Fired For String Of Poor Results

Former Zimbabwe Warriors Coach ‘Rahman Gumbo’ Fired For String Of Poor Results

FORMER Warriors coach Rahman Gumbo was on Thursday relieved of his duties as Gaborone United coach following a string of poor results. Gumbo, who joined Gaborone United in June 2014, left the capital city side in eighth place with 15 points after 11 matches, 12 points behind pacesetters Township Rollers. Last Tuesday’s 1-0 defeat to Botswana Defence Forces XI, which came five days after a 0-4 loss to Nico, could have marked the end of…

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