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Mutodi sued for US$1,500 in child maintenance
Energy Mutodi, the Zanu-PF legislator for Bikita West, has been served with a child maintenance lawsuit by his ex-wife, Polite Dhiyo, who alleges that Mutodi has failed to contribute financially to th...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 13:08hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Foreign mining companies should follow Zimbabwe laws
Foreign mining companies must ensure their operations in Zimbabwe benefit indigenous citizens, who are the rightful owners of the country's natural resources. This was the message from Remigious Matan...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:40hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Kereke applies for removal from remand
Former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke is seeking removal from remand on US$400,000 fraud charges, alongside suspended Harare Municipal Medical Aid Society (HMMAS) CEO Everisto Rukasha. Kerek...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Kereke sent back to jail
FORMER Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke is back in prison after the Supreme Court yesterday confirmed his conviction and an effective 10-year jail term for raping a juvenile relative. ...Published: 01 Jun 2024 at 18:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti a team of irreconcilable rivals
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, launched its campaign for the 31 July 2013 harmonised elections in Marondera, a small tow...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 08:57hrs | 8 | by Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Zimbabwe rights commission poll report highlights FAZ menace, ZEC, police bias
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has released a report on the August 2023 elections, highlighting the disruptive influence of the Zanu PF affiliated group, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ)...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kereke granted bail
FORMER Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke and the suspended chief executive of Harare Municipal Medical Aid Society (HMMAS), Everesto Rukasha, who allegedly connived to defraud the medical aid s...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ex-RBZ advisor arrested for fraud
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe advisor Munyaradzi Kereke has been arrested for fraud.The former Zanu PF Bikita West legislator is jointly charged with suspended Harare Municipal Medical Aid S...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 21:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CCC activist assaulted for refusing to chant Zanu-PF slogan
A 21-year-old Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Ronald Tausa was reportedly assaulted on August 3 for refusing to chant Zanu-PF slogans at a sports gala held in Ward 15, Bikita West consti...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 18:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fresh cases of Zanu-PF terror emerge
A FRESH report by the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has unearthed cases of brutal political violence perpetrated by Zanu-PF on opposition supporters in rural areas as the country counts down to the 23 ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Faz destabilises Chamisa's CCC
SHADOWY Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-linked Zanu-PF group Forever Associates of Zimbabwe (Faz), which took over the running of elections from the military in order to boost the prospects of...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo meets over primary election results
Zanu-PF will hold an Ordinary Session of the Politburo in Harare today to take stock of the just ended primary elections held last weekend.Confirming the development last night, party spokespe...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dog eat dog in Zanu-PF primaries
It will be a dog eat dog scenario in Zanu-PF primary elections initially set for Saturday (March 18) but have been postponed to a later date, with big wigs and some completely new faces set to clash i...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:32hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Kareke heading back to court
CONVICTED child rapist Munyaradzi Kereke is heading back to court to hear his appeal against sentence and conviction at the Supreme Court.The former Bikita West Member of Parliament and advise...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Police probes abducted MDC-Alliance activist
A 29-YEAR-OLD Masvingo MDC Alliance youth activist is under police investigation on charges of faking his own abduction barely a week ago, but the opposition party has rubbished the claims as ludicrou...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri approach ConCourt
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have filed a notice to apply for referral of their matter to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt).The two stand accused of ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Jailed ex-Zanu-PF legislator Kereke freed
The Supreme Court has granted $500 000 bail to jailed former Zanu-PF Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke pending his appeal against conviction and 14-year jail term for raping his then 11-year-ol...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kereke set for release from prison
Former Bikita West MP and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke is set for release from prison after he was granted Z$500,000 bail by the Supreme Court pending appeal against conviction and 14-year prison sen...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 20:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shun violence, says Chief Charumbira
Chiefs' Council president fortune Charumbira on Saturday urged his subjects in Masvingo to shun political violence ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections.He was speaking at the burial of 85-ye...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another funeral for Chamisa as his secretary for security and defence dies
The MDC Alliance Secretary for Security and Defence former Police Assistant Commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda has died. Chimwanda reportedly succumbed to an undisclosed illness in Harare last ni...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kereke's appeal thrown out
AILED former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has no prospects of success on appeal against a 14-year jail term for raping his then 11-year-old relative at gunpoint, the High Court has ruled, ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Tension remains high in Zanu-PF
POLITICAL temperatures remain high in Zanu-PF as party bigwigs jostle to lead the former liberation movement's provincial structures.The polls for the influential positions will take place soon af...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voters don't understand our role, says MPs
LEGISLATORS yesterday said they often ended up performing duties which were not theirs just to win votes as the bulk of the electorate was ignorant of the roles played by the President, Members of Par...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pregnant pupils divide Parliament
Parliament was left divided on Wednesday over a clause in the Education Amendment Bill which bans the expulsion of girls who fall pregnant while in school. Primary and Secondary Education Mini...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana opposes ZANU PF MPs
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Nick Mangwana has opposed calls by ZANU PF Parliamentarians to relook the clause banning corporal punishment ...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MPs insist on corporal punishment
Government should revisit provisions in the Education Amendment Bill, in particular clauses that seek to ban corporal punishment and the exclusion of pregnant pupils from school, legislators have said...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa square off in Bikita by-election
President Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa may not want to be in the same room to dialogue the way forward for the economy but will have a date in the ballot box as both their parties will batt...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 12:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'US$100m required to replace stolen Zesa transformers'
ZIMBABWE requires more than US$100 million to replace around 2 000 transformers that were vandalised in recent years, Parliament heard last week.This come at a time when the country is grappli...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi head on again
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has called upon Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to clean himself from the allegations that he is behind the transfer of former Bikita MP Munyradzi Kereke.The matter sta...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 15:53hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kereke caught up in Parliament storm
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly by Norton MP Temba Mliswa over reports that incarcerated former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke was enjoying co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to decriminalise wilful HIV transmission
Government is set to repeal a legal provision that criminalises transmission of HIV/AIDS to a partner in order to keep abreast with international standards, Parliament heard yesterday. Justice...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government values human rights
Human rights are defined as freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled, and these often include the rights to life, liberty, equality, freedom of expression and many others.The...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 17:01hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Mangudya taunts Mthuli Ncube
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya yesterday denied that the central bank was involved in any quasi-fiscal activities and called out Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and parliamentary ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Black market can't determine forex rates'
Government cannot allow itself to be influenced by the black market in determining foreign exchange rates on interbank transactions as the parallel market is run by a few individuals transacting on no...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Munyaradzi Kereke getting VIP treatment in prison
THREE top Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officials face criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly giving preferential treatment to former Zanu-PF MP Munyaradzi Kereke.Ke...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:57hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Kereke to lose hospital over $3m debt
JAILED former Zanu-PF Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke is set to lose his Mount Pleasant hospital to settle a $3 million debt owed to a local bank (name withheld), after the financial institution file...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rugeje, Chadzamira in holy alliance
Zanu-PF national secretary for the commissariat, Engelbert Rugeje has kept at bay those harbouring ambitions to remove Masvingo provincial chairperson Ezra Chadzamira, saying the new Minister of State...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu says no to Zanu-PF restructuring
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has poured cold water on party members who are jostling for positions saying the party will not carry out a restructuring process soon, adding that the...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kereke demands apology from Mliswa
Jailed former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has petitioned parliament to censure Norton legislator Temba Mliswa for allegedly maliciously slandering him by accusing him of impregnating his ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF holds victory celebrations
Bikita West legislator, Elias Musakwa hosted victory celebrations in his constituency to thank the people who voted for Zanu-PF in the 30 July harmonised elections.The celebrations were attend...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kereke impregnates wife from Prison?
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that jailed former ZANU PF MP Munyaradazi Kerekere has impregnated his younger while in prison.Said Mliswa, "In a conversatio...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 09:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF still in the lead, wins 110 seats out of 153 announced
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced a further 50 National Assembly results, bringing the total so far to 153.Of the 153 Zanu PF has won 110 seats while the MDC Alliance got 4...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Nothing will stop Zimbabwe polls'
Zanu-PF has reiterated that nothing will stop harmonised elections slated for next Monday urging Zimbabweans not to be misled by some local political parties that were developing cold feet as the harm...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bikita East ours for the taking, says NCA
The People of Bikita East are wise, and they will not be hoodwinked into voting for political parties with little regard for development and constitutionalism, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) p...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Co-exist with supporters of rival parties
Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Engelbert Rugeje yesterday urged ruling party supporters to co-exist with followers of other political parties and ensure a peaceful election on July 30. A...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Madhuku's candidates blocked by ZEC
PROFESSOR Lovemore Madhuku's NCA says it only managed to field 72 candidates to contest for the national assembly seats this July with the rest blocked from filing their papers during nomination last ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudzi latest political violence hotbed
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has released a report indicating that Mudzi district in Mashonaland East had become the latest hotbed of political violence, with candidates complaini...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
'Let bygones be bygones,' begs Chiwenga
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has implored Zanu-PF supporters to set aside their differences related to the recent primary elections and ensure a thunderous victory for the ruling party in the h...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T rocked by candidates imposition scandal
Some disgruntled members of the MDC T Chamisa led faction from Glen View south and Bikita West constituencies say they are up in arms with the party's leadership from imposing candidates in thei...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
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