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Zanu-PF bigwigs' debts choke CSC
A Cold storage Company (CSC) debtors' list shows that Zanu-PF top officials renting the parastatal's farms owe hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ailing company, with revenue collections dropping...Published: 13 hrs ago | 580 | by Staff reporter
Transport shortage grounds Harare council
HARARE City Council is failing to provide services, mainly refuse collection, due to a shortage of vehicles, the latest minutes of the environmental management committee meeting show.The commi...Published: 14 hrs ago | 74 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa, Mwonzora must unite first'
FORMER Cabinet minister and senior opposition official Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has urged the warring MDC factions led by Douglas Mwonzora and Nelson Chamisa to settle their differences first before engagi...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 20:01hrs | 1934 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC MPs differ on Constitution Amendment Bill
Zanu-PF and MDC MPs have expressed divergent views regarding Constitution Amendment Bill No. 2, which will see, among other things, the dropping of the presidential running mate clause ahead of the 20...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 20:00hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Opposition worried about recurrence of Mugabe era barbarities
THE imminent return of the national youth service training programme has triggered jitters among many in the opposition who have bad memories of the project's cadets.The programme's recruits w...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 20:00hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 4754 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa hints on by-elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that by-elections may be held soon and called on Zanu-PF to get prepared, while observing World Health Organisation (WHO) safety guidelines on COVID-19....Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:46hrs | 2180 | by Staff reporter
6 recalled MPs bounce back
THE High Court yesterday threw a lifeline at former Harare East MP Tendai Biti and five other legislators after ruling that their recent recall was illegal since the man who initiated it, Benjamin Ruk...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:40hrs | 3168 | by Staff reporter
Harare refuse collection left to the dogs
IT has emerged that the failure by the City of Harare to collect garbage from high-density suburbs has given rise to opportunists who are now collecting garbage from households for a fee.They ...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:33hrs | 300 | by Harare Residents Trust
Amend recall legislation, say lawyers
LEGAL experts have called for the amendment of section 129(1) (k) of the Constitution, saying recalls of legislators and councillors were an anathema to democracy.Under the section, legislator...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to douse Chilonga flames
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed that no villagers should be displaced by an irrigation project to be implemented by government in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi. Last month, the State...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:41hrs | 3890 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt resurrects youth militia
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced the return of its infamous National Youth Service programme for its youth militia, also known as "Border Gezi graduates", with analysts saying the move was meant to inst...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2077 | by Staff reporter
Malawian border jumpers deported
The 28 Malawian border jumpers who were rounded up on Saturday while hiding at a house in Beitbridge are now facing deportation to their country after a local court found them guilty of violating Zimb...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:22hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt approves return of 'green bombers'
CABINET Tuesday agreed to the reintroduction of the suspended National Youth Service Training Programme, whose graduates have been linked to acts of terror on mostly opposition supporters at the behes...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 19:14hrs | 3255 | by Staff reporter
BCC to purchase water pumps directly
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) hopes the purchase of water pumps directly from manufacturers will help ease water woes that have been bedevilling the city. This comes as the city last w...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
28 Malawian border jumpers to be deported from Zimbabwe
The 28 Malawian border jumpers who were rounded up on Saturday while hiding at a house in Beitbridge are now facing deportation to their country after a local court found them guilty of violating Zimb...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:14hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's son granted bail
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's son, Russell Goreraza, has been granted bail today at Concession Magistrates Courts on charges of stealing gold processing equipment at Tian Bao Mineral Industry in Ma...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:50hrs | 3171 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Grace Mugabe's son detained for theft
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's son, Russell Goreraza, was yesterday remanded in custody at the Concession Magistrates Courts on charges of stealing gold processing equipment at Tian Bao Mineral Indu...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4222 | by Staff reporter
'Recalls a result of serious factional fights in MDC'
FORMER top MDC-T official, now staunch Zanu-PF supporter, Obert Gutu says the opposition MDC remains in denial that the party is structured along deep-seated factional lines, and that arrangement is l...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:50hrs | 1415 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa needs to rethink himself and his approach'
A RENOWNED academic and political analyst has advised punch drunk MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to urgently rebrand and re-think his strategies if he is to salvage his waning local and internatio...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:38hrs | 2685 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in fresh legal fight
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC Alliance has resolved to challenge the passage of Constitution Amendment No 1 Bill in court saying the manner in which it was passed by Parliament was unconstitut...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 4999 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gears for by-elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has begun preparations for by-elections, although the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) recently announced that it had indefinitely postponed elections due to the COVID-19 p...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1744 | by Staff reporter
The problem was not Mugabe, but Zanu-PF
THE chaos and uncertainty that is rocking Zanu-PF after its chaotic district development coordinating committee elections held last December has left the party weak, fractured, divided and easy to be ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1174 | by Chief Chiduku
Fake stamps syndicate man fined $100,000
A 44-year-old Beitbridge man who is part of a syndicate using fake customs and immigration stamps to illegally clear travellers and goods at the country's port of entry has been fined $100 000 by a Be...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:03hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Why MDC-T supported Zanu-PF
MDC-T senators were cajoled into voting with Zanu-PF to pass controversial amendments to the constitution in the hope that the ruling party will return the favour by backing it in its battles with the...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:07hrs | 4424 | by Staff reporter
REDISTRIBUTION: MDC-T in dramatic U-turn…As Zanu PF vows to create 1 million jobs
DOUGLAS Mwonzora's MDC-T MPs are demanding that the Zanu PF government should allocate them farms, accusing the ruling party of partisan land redistribution that excluded them.The demand was m...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 19:30hrs | 1851 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zanu PF has dismembered MDC A, will not need to rig to win 2023' - only counter, demand reforms before 2023
Dear Tony Reeler,Thank you very much for your thought-provoking article 'Zanu PF won't concede electoral defeat' in New Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. The root cause of Zimbabwe economic meltdown an...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1786 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Recalls hurting service delivery'
MARONDERA residents have blamed the recall of some MDC Alliance councillors for poor service delivery.This was revealed during a Zimbabwe Union of Journalists-organised discussion at Mbuya Neh...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 05:00hrs | 729 | by Gwizhikiti
'Give us farms' MDC Mwonzora MPs pleads with Mnangagwa's minister
MDC-T MPs Thursday took to task Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka on why the government's land distribution exercise remained partisan leaving out MDC members, especially MPs.The minister wa...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:43hrs | 3066 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to decide on Khaya Moyo, Mathema's fate on Parly recalls Saturday
ZAPU will Saturday hold its National People's Council (NPC) meeting where the proposed recall from Parliament of former senior party members who are now Zanu-PF MPs will be top of the agenda.T...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:38hrs | 3581 | by Staff reporter
'Recall of MPs is Mugabe's baby,' says Madhuku
THE provision of recalling legislators from Parliament, which has been widely used in recent months to decimate the opposition MDC Alliance should never have found its way in the 2013 Constitution, Lo...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | 1154 | by Staff repporter
More misery for Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has suffered another blow after High Court judge Justice Philda Muzofa dismissed an application to stop Treasury from disbursing money under the Political Parties (F...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:53hrs | 3776 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF won't concede electoral defeat'
Zanu-PF will not concede to any electoral defeat as it fears being held to account for widespread human rights violations it is accused of committing over the past four decades.The claim was m...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:51hrs | 2012 | by Staff reporter
Meter fraud haunts Jere
BUSINESSMAN Farai Jere's company, Helcraw Electrical Private Limited, will be jointly charged along with its owner and two Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) engineers,...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:39hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Catch and release has the prosecutor general failed the fairness test in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe legal system bleeds and limps and trudge on as it staggers towards shame and doom. The people of Zimbabwe have always pointed blood-dripping fingers in the direction of the legal system. The ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 15:29hrs | 1208 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa advised against election boycott
ANALYSTS yesterday urged the MDC Alliance not to boycott elections as doing so would leave the ruling Zanu-PF party enjoying unbridled power.Nelson Chamisa's party looks set to fight with the ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 4789 | by Staff reporter
Rights 'defenders' press for PWDs social inclusion
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have called on institutions to ensure that people with disabilities (PWDs) are included in different programmes in ord...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, South Africa rush to contain potential Covid-19 surge
As summer winds down in Cape Town, South Africans take advantage of the empty beaches on the white sands at Camps Bay. "I'm glad to be free again, to visit the beach and have fun," says one lady....Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 19:01hrs | 1815 | by Deutsche Welle
Chamisa, MDC Alliance's 'defining moment'
WITH pressure mounting on its leaders all round, insiders say the MDC Alliance has reached a critical point where tough decisions now have to be made about its future.This comes as both Zanu-P...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 17:01hrs | 3027 | by Anesu Mirisawu
Chamisa to fight for MDC Alliance name
THE MDC Alliance says it will fight to keep its name ahead of possible by-elections to replace its recalled legislators and councillors, or risk allowing impunity to reign unchecked.Speaking t...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:52hrs | 3067 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora finding out that his ruse fools no one
THOSE who have mastered the art of gambling know very well that when a gambler says to look carefully at the cards when shuffling, there is something that they are doing that they don't want you to ob...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:39hrs | 1273 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Hwende in trouble
PARLIAMENT has approached the High Court seeking to recover a motor vehicle granted to MDC Alliance MP Chalton Hwende during his time in office. Alternatively, Parliament wants an order compel...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:53hrs | 5402 | by Staff reporter
MPs push for split of Health and Child Care ministry
MEMBERS of Parliament have launched a campaign to push for the Health and Child Care ministry to be split into two portfolios following public concerns that the current structure was prioritising heal...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
'Whipping system gags MPs'
THE whipping system in Parliament has deterred MPs from exercising their oversight role, rendering them ineffective in probing the Executive over opaque loan guarantees and quasi-fiscal activities by ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:19hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs in fresh trouble
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a fresh investigation into allegations that Zanu-PF bigwigs unjustly benefited from lengthy leases from the ailing Cold Storage Company (CSC...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | 10281 | by Staff reporter
Forced patriotism as Zanu-PF moves to entrench police state
Zanu-PF is pushing the controversial Patriotic Bill to entrench a police state and quash any dissenting voices ahead of the 2023 elections, analysts have said.The government has been previousl...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
By-elections will cut Mwonzora to size
WITH the COVID-19 pandemic under control, Zimbabwe should soon be preparing for by-elections to fill in parliamentary and council vacancies created following the recall of MDC Alliance MPs and council...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1802 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Matemadanda dropped as political commissar
President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired Zanu-PF's political commissar Victor Matemadanda after he was accused of fanning divisions, reports said.Mnangagwa dropped Matemadanda from Zanu-PF's powerfu...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:54hrs | 2152 | by Staff reporter
Govt frets over Easter holidays
AUTHORITIES and medical experts are worried about gatherings during the upcoming Easter holidays, amid fears that these could trigger a local third wave of the lethal coronavirus.The concerns ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:10hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not worried about Ramaphosa speech in Tanzania
The president of South Africa Mr C Ramaphosa paid tribute to the countries he said helped and fought with ANC to remove Apartheid in South Africa. Mr Ramaphosa thanked Tanzania for being the centre an...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 10:24hrs | 12016 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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