By Reuters MEGHAN, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex has given birth to her second child, a baby girl, who she and husband Prince Harry have named after Queen Elizabeth and his late mother Princess Diana. Lilibet ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on Friday at the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California, with Harry in attendance. “On June
By Sports Reporter THE much anticipated first Harare derby in two years lived up to its billing but could not produce a winner as arch-rivals Dynamos and CAPS United played a one-all draw. The exciting Chibuku Super Cup Group 1 match was played at the National Sports Stadium Sunday. Dynamos, who went into the match
MailOnline The Duchess of Sussex has given birth to a daughter on Friday who she and Prince Harry have named Lilibet ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor after the monarch and the duke’s mother, who died in 1997. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s second child, sister to two-year-old Archie, was born at 11:40am at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
TimesLIVE POVERTY, unemployment, peer pressure and gender inequality are some of the major aspects that drive many young women to go into “blesser and blessee” relationships, while social media is an enabler of such transactional partnerships, a local (South African) study has revealed. Blesser/blessee relationships are a social phenomenon which sees wealthy men and poorer
By Mary Taruvinga LATE Zimbabwe strongman, former President Robert Mugabe’s children have challenged, in court, a recent ruling by Chief Zvimba ordering his exhumation and reburial at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Mugabe died in Singapore in September 2019 while receiving medical treatment at a private hospital. He was buried in a family courtyard
By Anna Chibamu INDEPENDENT Norton MP Temba Mliswa has accused government ministers of being disrespectful to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by continuing to abscond Wednesday’s House of Assembly Ministers’ Question and Answer sessions. The outspoken MP added the snub was also “embarrassing and humiliating” for the legislators. The Question and Answer sessions are broadcast live by
By Costa Nkomo EXILED former government minister Jonathan Moyo has sensationally claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa was going through a tough period after senior military officials blocked him from making key new appointments into Zanu PF leadership positions. Mnangagwa announced new senior appointments in the governing party, last Wednesday, including appointing disgraced former Vice President Kembo
By Costa Nkomo TOP Harare lawyer Tendai Biti, has vowed he, and his legal team will continue defending the country’s Constitution and scuttle Luke Malaba’s ambitions to remain as Zimbabwe’s chief justice. On 15 May, the High Court passed a landmark judgment that barred Malaba to continue holding the post of chief justice. This was
By Robert Tapfumaneyi CHARLES Kwaramba, a lawyer representing two MDC activists who were released from prison Friday after spending eight years in jail for a murder they did not commit, has described their freedom as a “mixed bag of feelings”. Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, walked as free citizens for the first time in eight
By Alois Vinga FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube Friday floated lucrative incentives for investors in the mining sector in a bid to boost output in the country’s major economic earner. Through various programmes taken to refocus the mining sector, Zimbabwe foresees a US$12 billion being injected into the economy by year 2023 in a development that will bolster
Reuters ZIMBABWE’S government said Friday citizens should not panic because it had enough Covid-19 vaccines for those needing a second shot after some centres ran out of doses this week and turned people away. The southern African nation, which aims to vaccinate 10 million people by the end of the year, has to date received
By Bulawayo Correspondent FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has defended President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s repeated promulgation of statutory instruments (SIs) as a way of addressing multiple economic and political challenges facing the country. Last year, Mnangagwa’s administration promulgated a record 300 SIs, and in the process, violated laid down procedures on most of the subsidiary laws. This
By Paidashe Mandivengerei URBAN grooves rapper, Ex Q appears to have made peace with Zimdancehall musician, Tocky Vibes with his hit track, Wakatemba making a return on YouTube. This comes after the track was struck off YouTube in April over a copyright violation claim by Tocky Vibes. The chart-topping single was produced following an agreement
By Costa Nkomo MDC activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who were serving 20 year jail terms for murdering a Harare police office in 2011, have been freed by the Supreme Court after languishing in prison for an effective five years. Maengahama, Madzokere and Yvonne Musarurwa, who is now MDC-T MP, were all convicted and
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE has seen a significant decline in education spending in the last two years due to macro-economic challenges, the World Bank has noted. The international monetary organisation has since called for extensive reforms to translate the government’s education vision into a concrete set of programmes and projects to accelerate economic recovery and
By Alois Vinga UNITED Food Federation Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe (UFFAWUZ) this week disrupted salary negotiations for the baking industry, a development that will further worsen the plight of over 3 000 workers in the sector. According to a police record filed under RRB 4694748 at Milton Park Police Station in Harare, a crucial
By Bulawayo Correspondent THE MDC Alliance has castigated Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni for ordering the ejection, from council chambers, of reinstated former deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami as a ward councillor. Last week, the Supreme Court reinstated Kambarami as councillor for Ward 3. The ruling came after Bulawayo High Court judge, Thompson Mabhikwa had in 2019
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent FIVE people, including a pregnant woman, were killed after a speeding Karoi District Hospital ambulance collided with a light truck that encroached into its lane Wednesday. The truck driver, identified as Ryan Murembe, of Harare immediately fled the scene. National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident
By Costa Nkomo TWO High Court judges Thursday reserved to next week their judgment in an urgent application filed last week by the Human Rights NGO Forum demanding the imprisonment of Luke Malaba of being contempt of court charges. The application was filed by the NGO Forum after Malaba, whose five-year extension as the chief
BBC FEMALE MPs in Tanzania have called for an apology to an MP who was ordered to leave parliament because of her trousers. A male MP said the way some women dressed invited ridicule to parliament. “Mr Speaker, an example there is my sister seated on my right with a yellow shirt. Look at the
