Southern Eye
March 2, 2015, Mon
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s memory lapses and eyesight problems seem to be increasing with each passing day after he failed to read his prepared speech and resorted to rumbling off the cuff.
HUNDREDS of people who attended Presidents Robert Mugabe’s 91st birthday celebrations in Victoria Falls were left stranded after discovering that no accommodation had been organised for them.
THE textile sector has indicated that it requires at least $20 million to revive the industry currently reeling under low capitalisation levels and an influx of cheap imports.
HIGHLANDERS were left to rue failure to convert superior ball possession into goals after they were eliminated from the Bob 91 Cup competition by Caps United in an incident-filled encounter at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday.
THERE seems to be a coming together of vital ingredients for a vibrant showbiz sector in Bulawayo with recent public performances, including plays, music concerts and movie premieres consistently drawing much-needed audiences.
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s memory lapses and eyesight problems seem to be increasing with each passing day after he failed to read his prepared speech and resorted to rumbling off the cuff.
HIGHLANDERS were left to rue failure to convert superior ball possession into goals after they were eliminated from the Bob 91 Cup competition by Caps United in an incident-filled encounter at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday.
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe at the infamous Victoria Falls 91st birthday celebration said he did not get to be president by aspiring for the position or involving himself in “wicked rituals” to get to the top, but worked in humble fashion and waited to be appointed or chosen for the top post.
YESTERDAY this newspaper was inundated with complaints from members of the public that Bulawayo traffic police now have a penchant of spot fining private motorists for carrying passengers in their vehicles, accusing them of pirating.
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s statements last weekend at the launch of wife Auxilia’s campaign for the Zibagwe-Chirumanzu constituency seat reveal a lot about what Zanu PF has been doing over the years and will continue doing regarding elections.
AS exclusively revealed by this newspaper yesterday, former Youth, Gender and Women’s Affairs deputy minister Shuvai Mahofa has bounced back as a full minister, replacing fired Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Kudakwashe Basikiti as President Robert Mugabe’s purge of perceived internal opponents intensifies.
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa launched his wife Auxilia’s Zibagwe-Chirumanzu constituency campaign by declaring that President Robert Mugabe will name and shame corrupt ministers.
AN uproar has ensued over Zanu PF plans to throw President Robert Mugabe a lavish bash at the resort town of Victoria Falls to mark his 91st birthday at an estimated cost of over a million dollars at a time when the generality of the population is wallowing in poverty.
MPILO Central Hospital, which serves all of Bulawayo and has patients referred to it from Matabeleland North and South, the Midlands, Masvingo and beyond, has one thermometer in the paediatric ward.
FORMER Zapu members in Zanu PF are probably hanging their heads in shame after the latest gaffe by newly-appointed Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko in which he desperately wants the country to believe hook, line and sinker that Gukurahundi genocide was a conspiracy of the West to destabilise newly-independent Zimbabwe.
WHEN Jonathan Moyo was appointed Information minister in 2013, media houses got really afraid thinking history would repeat itself and a second baptism of fire would be on the way.
VICE-President Phelekezela Mphoko continues to hog the limelight for the wrong reasons since his recent appointment as the third most powerful politician in the republic.
THE textile sector has indicated that it requires at least $20 million to revive the industry currently reeling under low capitalisation levels and an influx of cheap imports.
Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.
THERE seems to be a coming together of vital ingredients for a vibrant showbiz sector in Bulawayo with recent public performances, including plays, music concerts and movie premieres consistently drawing much-needed audiences.
