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By Lloyd Gumbo Air Zimbabwe has been leasing two airbuses at $200 000 each per month since 2012 from a Chinese company, Sonangol, which has seen the national airline accruing arrears as it is failing to break even, Parliamentarians heard on Wednesday. All things being equal, the national airline must have paid the Chinese firm […]
The US government has revised its targeted sanctions list by adding four new names and removing 11 others. Those added to the list are ZANU PF functionaries Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede, ZANU PF supporter and Chinese tycoon Sam Pa and Zim-based Singaporean lawyer Jimmy Zerenie.
HARARE – The Supreme Court in Zimbabwe has ordered that presidential and parliamentary elections must be held by 31 July 2013. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, a staunch Mugabe ally, made the ruling on Friday.
An NGO suing President Robert Mugabe in an attempt to force early elections in Zimbabwe is actually a bogus outfit being funded by the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) using money from the secretive ‘Operation Spiderweb.’
A decision by controversial diamond mining firm Anjin Investments to suspend 1,500 workers, who went on strike demanding better pay and working conditions, has opened up a can of worms with several workers speaking out for the first time.
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party is reportedly splashing about $14 million on as many as 550 vehicles as it prepares a massive election campaign but the source of the funding for the vehicles remains a mystery.
Human rights group Global Witness has recommended an investigation into the activities of mysterious Chinese business tycoon Sam Pa, diamond firm Anjin Investments and Sino Zimbabwe.
A mysterious Chinese businessman based in Hong Kong is quietly providing financing to Zimbabwe’s ruling forces in return for access to its diamond mines and opportunities in property development.