Columnist / Clemence manyukwe
MDC-T not democratic
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has raised dust by his appointment of Mr Nelson Chamisa and Engineer Elias Mudzuri as the party's vice presidents.The two, who are all members of the national...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Bullet scare for G40 linked Zanu-PF minister
SPORTS and Recreation Minister Makhosini Hlongwane yesterday found a live bullet in his hotel room and has since reported the matter to the police.The minister found the bullet at Crowne Plaza...Published: 12 Jan 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Churches tax begins
CHURCHES are bracing for a new tax on income derived from trade or investments following regulations that came into effect on January 1.Tithes, offerings and donations made to churches will no...Published: 04 Jan 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
A lukewarm year for Tsvangirai
IF the MDC-T was left for dead in the 2013 general elections, then its leader Morgan Tsvangirai was left weak-kneed and has been groping in the dark since then.2015, which has come to an end r...Published: 01 Jan 2016 at 11:34hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Joshua Nkomo's name erased from Harare Airport Road
IT WAS meant to be a highway modernised in honour of the late Father Zimbabwe, but a mixup by Transport and Infrastructure Ministry officials saw an upgraded road being unveiled as the Harare Intern...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 06:37hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Mugabe grants Air Zimbabwe immunity from attachment
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has granted Air Zimbabwe immunity from attachment and execution of its properties following the signing of a law temporarily shutting the door on the seizure of its assets unti...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 05:17hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Churches to be taxed from January next year
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) will start taxing churches' income derived from trade or investments from January next year. Changes to the Income Tax Act that have been brought a...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 05:38hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Non-Ndebele teachers concerns persist
THE issue of the increasing number of non-Ndebele teachers in Matabeleland schools was back in Parliament this week as concerns over the matter persist. The Deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary Ed...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 15:49hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Zimbabwe govt to fight Cape Town property sale
ZIMBABWE is set to fight yesterday's auctioning of its property in Cape Town, South Africa after it emerged that the sale went ahead despite the government having settled money owed to lawyers who rep...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 06:11hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Zimra to name, shame tax evaders
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authourity (Zimra) is set to name and shame tax offendors if Parliament adopts the latest treasury proposals. The new Finance Bill, which is set for debate when Parliament resumes...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 06:45hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Econet cuts staff salaries by 35%
ECONET Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest mobile phone company, is cutting salaries by 35 percent across the board starting in July. The cuts will also be felt at Econet's subsidiaries, Steward Bank, Mutare...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 14:12hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Mpilo Hospital in patient death storm
MPILO Central Hospital faces medical negligence allegations after a Bulawayo man claimed that his son, a college student, died a day after he was admitted due to possible malpractice by the hospital'...Published: 13 Jun 2015 at 13:43hrs | 1 | by Clemence Manyukwe
Mnangagwa warns Zanu-PF bigwigs
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned bigwigs with vast tracts of land to brace for an exercise meant to reduce their farm sizes to acceptable hectares.VP Mnangagwa said corruption in l...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 09:35hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Tsvangirai faces MDC-T rebellion
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai faces a rebellion if he decides to boycott the impending by elections as some senior members in his party eye constituencies left vacant following Parliament's decision ...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 07:49hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Jonathan Moyo eyes vacant Tsholotsho seat
ZANU-PF gleefully greeted the expulsion of 21 former MDC-T MPs and Senators from Parliament yesterday - and attention immediately turned to the high-prize Tsholotsho North constituency, one of just a ...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 06:36hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Mzembi defies Mahofa
TOURISM Minister Walter Mzembi has vowed to stay put on a Masvingo farm which the Provincial Affairs Minister Shuvai Mahofa described as "strategic" to the province.On Thursday, Mahofa said sh...Published: 14 Mar 2015 at 15:34hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Mugabe sets up complaints hotline
THE government is setting up a Presidential complaints hotline within ministries to address citizen concerns over public sector service delivery.Zimbabweans will be able to call the hotlines f...Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 07:04hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Calls for police to stop collecting spot fines grow louder
LEGISLATORS yesterday added their voice to calls for police to stop collecting spot fines saying the move was illegal as it was not backed by any legislation.High Court Judge Justice Francis B...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 07:01hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Profile: Emmerson Mnangagwa
AS Zanu-PF's secretary for legal affairs, Emmerson Mnangagwa was number 12 in the party's hierarchy, but yesterday, he jumped 11 places to land the post of Vice President. His liberation war credenti...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 06:37hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
'Mujuru faces jail'
VICE President Joice Mujuru betrayed the trust bestowed on her by the Zanu-PF women's league by conspiring with a "treacherous cabal" to actively seek power through unconstitutional means, President ...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Tendai Biti's zero sum game
MDC Renewal Team leader Tendai Biti has been criss-crossing the country projecting his faction as the country's main opposition party ahead of that led by Morgan Tsvangirai.Last week, Biti tog...Published: 15 Jul 2014 at 07:44hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Tsvangirai expelled
A TRIBUNAL constituted by the MDC renewal team has expelled opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for fomenting divisions and bringing the party into disrepute.MDC renewal team spokesperson Jac...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 06:32hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
D-day for 'suspended' Morgan Tsvangirai
THE MDC renewal team has set tomorrow as the date on which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is set to appear before a tribunal consisting of three lawyers, two from Bulawayo to answer various charg...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 04:04hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Tsvangirai's list of former lieutenants continues to grow
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is counting his losses as the list of former lieutenants that are deserting him continues to grow.Since the party's formation in 1999, he has been losing politi...Published: 13 Jun 2014 at 06:29hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Bennett abandons Tsvangirai
MDC-T treasurer-general Roy Bennett has abandoned the faction led by Morgan Tsvangirai following power struggles ignited by calls for leadership renewal.Bennett, who lives in self -imposed ex...Published: 12 Jun 2014 at 18:02hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Helicopter crash pilot arrested
POLICE have arrested a South African millionaire running a game farm near West Nicholson, his lawyer has confirmed. Frikkie Lutzkie was arrested shortly after disembarking at Joshua Mqabuko Nk...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 05:06hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
'Tendai Biti faces axe'
EXPELLED MDC-T national executive member Last Maengahama has claimed that the party's secretary general Tendai Biti would eventually lose his post following an internal fallout over calls for the oppo...Published: 16 Apr 2014 at 06:47hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Obert Mpofu's riches under spotlight
DEPTRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development Minister, Obert Mpofu, is under renewed pressure to reveal his source of wealth after firebrand ZANU-PF Hurungwe West Member of Parliament, Temba Mliswa, r...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 07:03hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Tsvangirai's MDC-T faces split
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) faces a possible split that might compound its woes and further diminish its chances of recovering the ground it has lost over the years, as Morgan Tsvangira...Published: 20 Feb 2014 at 12:38hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Tsvangirai nears endgame?
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) is now caught between a rock and a hard place as factional winds blow.On the one hand, the party is now heavily fractured as cracks are emerging foll...Published: 06 Feb 2014 at 07:48hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Can Tsvangirai recover?
FOR now, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Morgan Tsvangirai appears to have abdicated his main role of closely monitoring the government of the day and holding it accountable to the publ...Published: 16 Jan 2014 at 09:44hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Mugabe's Zanu-PF at war with itself
WEEKEND elections to choose members to lead the party's 10 provincial executives have escalated infighting within Zanu-PF as factions plotting in hidden corners to succeed President Robert Mugabe in ...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 12:45hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe
Robert Mugabe loses immunity
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and any future heads of State in the country have lost immunity from prosecution in the new draft constitution that is set to become the country's supreme law should it be app...Published: 26 Jul 2012 at 06:08hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe, Fingaz Political Editor
Tsvangirai escapes WikiLeaks prosecution
A PANEL set up early this year to probe alleged treason by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and leading ZANU-PF critics, has recommended that there are no legal grounds to prosecute individuals on th...Published: 19 Jul 2011 at 11:09hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe, Political Editor
Why has Sibanda found a new home in Masvingo!
Jabulani Sibanda boasts of fully utilising his farmland, but for as many months now the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chairperson has been away from his farm, waging a...Published: 02 Jul 2011 at 15:04hrs | | by Clemence Manyukwe, Fingaz Political Editor
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