The Sunday Mail

PM splashes $40 000 on fiancee, flies off to US for bash

Itai Mazire
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai recently splashed an estimated US$40 000 on a kitchen suite makeover for his fiancee, Ms Elizabeth Macheka, before flying off to the United States, where he is reportedly spoiling his new-found love in belated birthday celebrations that have riled some of the top MDC-T leaders.
Reports say the US$40 000 makeover for the couple’s Borrowdale home was ordered by Ms Macheka, who is known to have an insatiable appetite for lavish spending.

Mr Tsvangirai and h...

Dog eat dog over Zimbabwe gems

Sunday Mail Reporter
Western-funded organisations that are campaigning against Zimbabwe’s diamond sector are failing to find common ground ahead of a crucial Kimberley Process Certification Scheme meeting scheduled for the United States next month, it has emerged.

The Sunday Mail can exclusively reveal that Mr Alan Martin, the research director of an anti-Zimbabwe lobby, Partnership Africa Canada (PAC), told a two-day workshop in Vumba on May 9 and 10 that the “human rights violations” argument wa...

Boost as first forensic lab set to be unveiled

Sunday Mail Reporter

Zimbabwe could soon boast of its first forensic technology laboratory that will have the capacity to carry out paternity and other DNA tests.

The development comes as some locals are forking out thousands of dollars to access the tests in South Africa where the results take up to three months.

President of the African Institute of Biomedical Science Technology (AiBST) Professor Colleen Masimirembwa said his organisation expects to unveil the laboratory within the next three mo...

Biti blasted for freezing health posts

Tinashe Farawo in Kadoma

The chairman of Zimbabwe Parliament Against HIV, Mr Blessing Chebundo, has criticised Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti for freezing the recruitment of nurses,

National ARV uptake doubles

Phyllis Kachere
The number of Zimbabweans on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has almost doubled to over half a million

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PM splashes $40 000 on fiancee, flies off to US for bash

Itai Mazire
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai recently splashed an estimated US$40 000 on a kitchen suite makeover for his fiancee, Ms Elizabeth Macheka, before flying off to the Uni...

Local News

Caps Holdings folds?

Sharon Kavhu
Property belonging to Caps Holdings was last week sold at a public auction to settle a US$4 million debt owed to CBZ Bank Limited.
The auction comes amid reports that th...

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$1,2bn fraud cases in six months

Darlington Musarurwa
Business Editor
The three-day workshop of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) on improving the business environment in Zimbabwe last week ...

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Is the dream about to end?
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In-Depth and Analysis

Zim, Moza brew ‘njemani war’

Tendai Chara
After getting wind of an alleged bitter land dispute involving Mozambicans and their Zimbabwean counterparts near the border areas along the Gonarezhou National Park, T...