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Zimbabwe-based NGOs in panic mode
A new law governing operations of non-governmental organisations is likely to be operational in Zimbabwe before year end.Predictably, there is uproar and panic in the NGO sector, including som...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 2 | by Ranga Mataire
'Zimbabwe military won't hand over power'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday said it would not surrender power to the opposition, citing the Zanu-PF leadership's war credentials.Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamb...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Malaba saga: Govt appeals to wrong court, claims MDC activists
GOVERNMENT has reportedly erroneously filed an appeal against the declaratur by the High Court in former Chief Justice Luke Malaba's case to the Supreme Court instead of the Constitutional Court (ConC...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Landmark ruling on vehicle plates
GOVERNMENT has been ordered to reimburse motorists who paid for new vehicle registration plates in foreign currency since July last year, but failed to get them.In a landmark ruling on Wednesd...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses lockdown challenge
The attempt by an organisation claiming to represent the informal sector to end the Level Four national lockdown failed after the High Court dismissed the urgent application on several grounds with th...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders challenge lockdown order
THE Zimbabwe Informal Sectors Organisation (Ziso) has approached the High Court challenging the constitutionality of the recently imposed 30-day lockdown by government to contain the spread of COVID-1...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's total lockdown challenged in court
Mfundo Mlilo and the Zimbabwe informal traders association have filed an urgent application at court challenging the rationality of a 30-day long lockdown announced by Vice President who doubles up as...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 17:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Logistical nightmare cast doubt on MDC congress credibility
THE just-ended MDC congress was a logistical nightmare, with the party failing to meet set timelines and pushing voting into the dead of the night.Already, knives are out for organising secret...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
2% tax challenge, judgment reserved
High Court judge Justice Happius Zhou has reserved judgment in an application filed by pro-democracy activist Mfundo Mlilo, seeking an order to suspend the 2% electronic transactions tax introduced by...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manhunt for MDC officials
POLICE have launched a manhunt for at least 27 MDC-Alliance officials and activists, including their civil society partners, for allegedly organising the so-called stay-away that degenerated into an o...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC activists flees Zimbabwe, holed in SA
MDC-Alliance activists and their civil society partners have fled the country and are reportedly holed up in South Africa after organising the so-called stay-away that degenerated into an orgy of loot...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 22:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa put on spot over Aug 1 inquiry
LAWYERS, human rights groups and opposition parties have expressed fears that the report by the commission of inquiry into the post-election violence in which the military allegedly killed six civilia...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube's budget an economic horror script'
THE opposition MDC yesterday said Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's silence on currency distortions in the 2019 National Budget presented on Thursday demonstrated government's reluctance to deal with th...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Politicians react to Jim Kunaka's testimony
Politicians and political activists have registered their reactions to the statements by the former Chipangano terror leader Jim Kunaka that he was working with the military to unleash violence ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Outrage over military, police testimonies
OPPOSITION parties, civil society and ordinary people reacted with outrage to the testimonies of military and police bosses who tried to exonerate themselves from the post-election violence in which s...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must explain mayor appointment procedure'
Residents have castigated the MDC Alliance for failing to educate the electorate on the method applied by the party in its process of selecting mayors.Mfundo Mlilo, the director of Combined Ha...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2% tax court challenge revived
COMBINED Harare Residents' Association (CHRA) director Mr Mfundo Mlilo has filed a normal court application contesting the recently announced 2 percent tax on electronic money transfers, following the...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bid to block Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax hits brick wall
Combined Harare Residents' Association director Mfundo Mlilo's attempt to block recently imposed 2 cents tax on electronic money transfers yesterday hit a snag after the High Court yesterday threw out...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax court challenge dismissed
A High Court judge has dismissed an application by Mfundo Mlilo a human rights activist challenging the legality of the 2 percent tax on money transfers which was recently imposed by Finance and Econo...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube calls for political reforms
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has urged the government to be receptive to the reform demands of the opposition and Western powers - as this will enable Zimbabwe to access help from overseas companies ...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube sued
PRO-DEMOCRACY activist Mfundo Mlilo has hauled Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to the High court seeking an order to suspend the imposition of the 2% electronic transactions tax.Ncube introduced...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's desperate bid facing a sharp court challenge
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's desperate bid to balance the government's shambolic books by raising the State's revenue through an unpopular new tax is facing a sharp court challenge.This com...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tax war spills into court
Government's decision to charge a draconian two percent tax on electronic transactions is likely to face its first legal challenge today.The Daily News can report that a Harare man, Mfundo Mli...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cholera tsunami sweeps across Mashonaland again
STEWART Murambiwa's snow-white teeth appear too big for his mouth; his arms and limbs look like they belong to a little boy and not the 27-year-old man he is.Propped up on an iron bed in a ten...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Moyo's caretaker commissions illegal'
Commissions set up to run local authorities by Local Government minister July Moyo are illegal and should be abolished, constitutional and local government experts have said.This comes after M...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF splashes millions on regalia, vehicles
Zanu-PF has refused to disclose the source of millions of dollars oiling its campaign machinery ahead of crucial elections later this year after former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Presidential powers challenge hearing today
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has now taken over litigation in which his predecessor, Robert Mugabe had been taken to court by activist, Mfundo Mlilo, who is challenging the gazetted Statutory Instrume...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa free and fair polls pledge questioned
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's pledge for free and fair elections this year has come under scrutiny, with the opposition and analysts describing the Zanu PF leader as insincere after he recently claim...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe under fire
MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe is under attack from the Bulawayo province that criticises her continued opposition to Morgan Tsvangirai's plan for an opposition alliance to take on Emmerso...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chinamasa brushed devolution aside
Government is backtracking on the promised devolution of power which partially found expression in the new Constitution.In his national budget on Thursday Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa sa...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 18:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must dump Mugabe ruinous policies'
POLITICAL analysts have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step up and dismantle the current political system that fosters unaccountability, corruption and inefficiency for him to outshine form...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Activist challenges Mugabe's powers
A LOCAL human rights activist has filed a Constitutional Court application challenging President Robert Mugabe's powers used to gazette Statutory Instrument (SI) 117/2017, which seeks to amend the Ele...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Condemned chickens on sale
Chickens that were part of a consignment deemed unfit for human consumption are being sold to unsuspecting customers in Harare and its hinterland, raising serious health risks.The chickens, we...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai hires policy experts ahead of polls
FORMER Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has reportedly hired five local academics to fine-tune his MDC-T policy document, dubbed SMART Project, which he intends to use as his campaign trump card ahead...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T roasts Kasukuwere
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC yesterday waded into Zanu-PF's ugly factional and succession wars, accusing embattled Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, of vindictively suspendin...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangudya urges court to dismiss bond notes challenge
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya, has filed an application at the High Court to have the matter challenging the legality of bond notes dismissed.Mangudya has been taken...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco farmers failing to get cash
Tobacco farmers are struggling to get their money at auction floors, as the country's severe cash crunch continues to worsen.This is despite the government's recent directive to banks ...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe panics as wheels come off
With Zimbabwe's economy continuing to die - as manifested by rising poverty levels, worsening job losses and severe cash shortages - the government is showing signs of panic, amid fresh warnin...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's debt defaulters
Zimbabwe is being hit by a tidal wave of debt - defaulters are on the rise as the ailing economy continues to hit ordinary citizens hard.Many are losing their properties to debt collectors or ...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 12:35hrs | 5 | by Boldwill Hungwe
Harare Hospital sets tight measures for credit patients
HARARE Central Hospital has resolved not to extend credit treatment to patients admitted at the medical institution who fail to produce national identity documents and proof of residency.The m...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil society blasts Grace Mugabe
Civil society has blasted President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, for colluding in diverting goods confiscated from vendors to Zanu-PF supporters.Grace recently admitted that she had grabbed th...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Six human rights activists appear in court
Six activists who were arrested for visiting 16 members of the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ), who were detained for more than two weeks at Chikhurubi remand prison in July have been summo...Published: 05 Sep 2015 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare council splash $600 000 on sweeping machines
Harare City Council has taken delivery of two road sweeper machines at US$600 000, drawing the ire of residents who accuse the financially-crippled authority of misplacing its priorities. There are re...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe accepts confidence-building measures offered by the UK
President Robert Mugabe has accepted confidence-building measures offered by the United Kingdom (UK) to improve diplomatic relations, including increasing the number of students sent on the Chevening ...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 15:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wither Tsvangirai's pension in Grace Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Vice-President Joice Mujuru, axed from Robert Mugabe's Government for scheming to overthrow the President, will receive her terminal benefits and enjoy personal security, medical aid, travel allowance...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 13:44hrs | | by Makusha Mugabe
Crisis in Zim Coalition says NGOs cannot be non-partisan - no wonder they have been useless!
LOCAL NGOs cannot be expected to be non-partisan in a society that is "patently partisan", a Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition official, Mfundo Mlilo, has said."This is a regime that has a clear a...Published: 13 Jul 2015 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
At 91, Mugabe is a frequent flyer
The African president has his hands firmly on the reins of government at home and is frequently on the move, flying around the globe.At age 91, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe shows few sig...Published: 13 Jun 2015 at 14:23hrs | | by Christopher Torchia I AP
Zanu-PF dogfight now unstoppable'
Analysts have described the deadly factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF as a "bare knuckles dogfight" that will only end when one of the factions competing ...Published: 17 May 2015 at 17:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Fistfights at Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Blows were exchanged lat night at the Quill Club in the capital when members of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) clashed as part of the ongoing leadership wrangles in the organization.T...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 10:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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