Monthly Archives: June 2013

When book education is not enough

The Herald 20 June 2013 By Nyasha Mutena TENDAI KUCHERA (28) is basking in the warm sunshine of the morning, like any other day in his life. He is surely going to spend the day hopping from one person he comes across on the streets to the other, begging for money or engaging in quick […]

Longman Changes Hands

The Financial Gazette By Paul Nyakazeya 20 June 2013 Pearson International, the world’s leading publishing company, has transferred its book publishing and distribution business in Zimbabwe, Longman Zimbabwe, to Consultus Publishing Services (CPS) which has been appointed an exclusive agent in the country, The Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets (C&M) can report. CPS, which is registered […]

ZANU PF’s diamond ‘whistleblower’ Chindori-Chininga dies in car crash

SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 2o June 2013 The ZANU PF MP for Guruve South, Edward Chindori-Chininga, died in a car crash in his constituency on Wednesday. No other vehicle was involved in the accident. This has set Zimbabwe talking because last Wednesday he released a damning report about the involvement of ZANU PF […]

Ncube: The big winner in Maputo

News Day By News Day Reporter 19 June 2013 SO the Sadc summit, which was dubbed as a make-or-break Zimbabwean election theatre script has now come and delivered resolutions that continue to tap into the high adrenaline levels that parties in our Global Political Agreement (GPA) sketch went in with. Summit back row rumour has […]

Police refuse to sanction PTUZ march

PRESS STATEMENT By PTUZ 19 June 2013 NON-SANCTION OF THE PLANNED MARCH TO MINISTER COLTART’S OFFICE The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has refused to sanction the Wednesday, 19th of June 2013 march to Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Honourable Senator David Coltart’s office by members of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) to present a […]

The clouds part

The Zimbabwean By Victor Chimbamu 19 June 2013 As we gathered outside the Zimbabwe Embassy for yet another wet Vigil the skies suddenly cleared and the sun broke through. We arrived generally pessimistic about the SADC summit in Maputo but before the day was out our opinions changed. “It has been an incredible and unbelievable […]

Grand coalition leaders meet

News Day By Dumisani Sibanda 19 June 2013 AS the chorus for a coalition of the two MDCs and three other parties to confront Zanu PF ahead of the elections grows, the political parties’ leaders yesterday met in Harare for the third time to thrash out their grand plan for the polls. MDC-T president Prime […]

Unfinished business: David Coltart

The Zimbabwean By Mkhululi Chimoio 19 June 2013 Minister David Coltart believes it would be wrong to withdraw from politics when there is so much unfinished business. He told Mkhululi Chimoio he did not think the struggle for democracy would take so long and that he feels an obligation to see it through to completion. […]

Gibson Homela blasts Zifa

Southern Eye By Fortune Mbele 18 June 2013 FORMER Warriors coach and Zifa technical director Gibson Homela has blamed the national football governing body for the Warriors failure saying the deep-seated problems bedevilling football in the country needed wide consultations with knowledgeable sports persons for the growth of the game. The Warriors crashed out of […]

Polls: Sadc ‘victory’ could be shortlived

Southern Eye By Njabulo Ncube 18 June 2013 SADC’s request to President Robert Mugabe to return to the Constitutional Court (Concourt) to seek a two-week extension on its order for elections to be held by July 31, further throws the resolution of the Zimbabwe crisis into fresh confusion and political turmoil, analysts said yesterday. Sadc […]

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