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Forever Associates Zimbabwe casts dark cloud over Zimbabwe polls
THE involvement of parallel structures in the running of elections has raised alarm, with main opposition official Tendai Biti demanding that Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri present a minist...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:13hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
No more job termination on 3 months notice
EMPLOYERS will no longer be able to terminate contracts of their permanent staff on three months notice after the National Assembly removed a clause in the Labour Act that conferred them powers to fir...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ignores Motlanthe's recommendations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ignored several recommendations, including by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, to improve the country's election management system and avoid disputed elections....Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 18:18hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF affiliate gives Chamisa sleepless nights
AN invisible hand by a shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) linked organisation, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) continues to give Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamis...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1678 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to legislate against foreign currency use
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has, in a yet-to-be-aired interview, declared Zimbabwe will continue using its waning currency despite it fast-losing value.In snippets of the interview shared by ...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Evan Mawarire condemns Zimbabwe's Patriot Bill
ZIMBABWEAN activist and #ThisFlag movement founder Evan Mawarire has condemned the Criminal Law Code Amendment Bill (Patriot Bill) describing it as 'draconian' after it sailed through Parliament, Wedn...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:43hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Biti warns of a coup
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Tendai Biti has warned the unconstitutional recruitment of agents from spooky Zanu-PF aligned group, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) to allegedly tampe...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:14hrs | 2611 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's election season begins
THE country was ushered into an election season yesterday as President Mnangagwa proclaimed the road map for this year's polls, setting August 23 as the election date and June 21 as the date for the s...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 719 | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo says economic saboteurs should not contest elections
Political commentator and Former Cabinet Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo has said that economic saboteurs should not be allowed to contest in local elections.Writing on his Twitter handle ye...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:23hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Drivers' licence impasse in Electoral Bill debate
Parliament is next week expected to resume debate on contentious clauses in the Electoral Amendment Bill after a marathon and heated sitting which started on Thursday afternoon last week went into ear...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:32hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar in record crash
THE Zimbabwe dollar tumbled by nearly 26% on the official market on Tuesday, the biggest collapse in one day since the auction system was introduced three years ago, while a government inquiry accused...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:24hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
Third witness testifies in Biti assault trial
The trial of opposition politician Tendai Biti, who is facing charges of assaulting businesswoman and investor Mrs Tatiana Aleshina at the Harare Magistrates Court in 2020, continued yesterday with th...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:10hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Biti challenges Mthuli Ncube to explain SI 127, blended inflation
HARARE East legislator Tendai Biti (CCC) has challenged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to explain before Parliament how Statutory Instrument 127 and blended inflation work.SI 127 of 2021 amends...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe is being run by kleptomaniac Govt
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe is being run by a kleptomaniac government and there is a desperate need for change ahead of the upcoming general elections....Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:16hrs | 1305 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chopper deal raises stink?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been criticised for presiding over a controversial deal that saw Zimbabwe acquire 32 helicopters from Russia worth a staggering US$320 million without following laid d...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:14hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
'Biti misleading his lawyer'
A THIRD witness in Tendai Biti's assault case, Michael Van Blerk, yesterday accused the former Finance minister of misleading his lawyer on the questions they be should asking.Van Blerk ...Published: 17 May 2023 at 21:25hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Michael Van Blerk embarrasses Biti's lawyer
The third witness in Tendai Biti's assault matter today embarrassed the defence after asking the court to allow him to read the charges again. This came after Van Blerk kept on refusing to entertain q...Published: 16 May 2023 at 20:43hrs | 1884 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's shaky control exposed
INVESTIGATIONS into how a controversial government notice which subverted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's authority while he was in London attending United Kingdom King Charles III's coronation last we...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:28hrs | 2131 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's administration panicking
FORMER Finance minister and opposition legislator, Tendai Biti, says government's latest interventions to save the free-falling local currency expose panic in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administra...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:27hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
3rd witness nails Biti
A THIRD State witness in the case of Harare East legislator Tendai Biti (CCC) who is accused of verbally assaulting local businesswoman Tatiana Aleshina told the court yesterday that when he sensed da...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Biti blasts Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION legislator Tendai Biti has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa for attempting a constitutional coup with a bizarre general notice hiding procurement processes in the Health ministry....Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1775 | by Staff reporter
Van Blerk testifies against Tendai Biti
The third witness in politician Tendai Biti's case in which he is accused of assaulting Mrs Tatiana Aleshina yesterday told the court that he had to restrain the visibly angry legislator as he charged...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Parly summons Mthuli Ncube
PARLIAMENTARIANS have summoned Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to explain what measures he was implementing to tame inflation and stabilise the free-falling Zimdollar.The local currency, reintro...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:32hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bans disclosure of public procurement
President Mnangagwa on Tuesday okayed a new decree under which all procurement in construction, medical equipment, medicines and drugs as well as protective clothing in hospitals "shall not be publicl...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 1690 | by Staff reporter
Biti takes dig at Mthuli Ncube
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has taken a dig at current Treasury boss Mthuli Ncube over the free-falling local currency."There is rampant rejection of the local currency in the market,"...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 2284 | by Staff reporter
Second witness for Biti assault case
Deputy Prosecutor General Mr Micheal Reza will today call his second witness to testify in Tendai Biti's assault case.This comes after the first witness Mrs Tatiana Aleshina finished her cross...Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:55hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
'Never go to bed with Zanu PF. It's dangerous!' warned Chamisa. After 5 long GNU years of nothing, he knows!
"The Constitutional Court on Monday threw out the MDC leader's application seeking nullification of the delimitation report and a delay of the elections set for July," reported Bulawayo 24."Mw...Published: 09 May 2023 at 14:49hrs | 1488 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwean politics in generational transition
It seems there is a growth in the number of younger candidates being nominated to represent the parties in the upcoming polls.ONE of the most stubborn facts is that the old die, and the new are bo...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 486 | by Ntando Dumani
Second witness to testify in Biti's assault case
DEPUTY Prosecutor General Mr Micheal Reza is next week expected to bring to the witness stand his second witness to testify in Tendai Biti's assault case.The CCC legislator is facing charges o...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Biti assault victim concludes testimony
LOCAL businesswoman Tatiana Aleshina has concluded her three-month-long testimony against Citizens Coalition for Change vice- president Tendai Biti whom she accuses of verbally assaulting her....Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:08hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume jailing sends shock waves
Six years ago President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to transform Zimbabwe's politics, which he said "had become poisoned, rancorous and polarising".After being sworn in to replace long time ru...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:01hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over bigwigs' 'secret' millions saga
Zimbabweans have been urged to demand accountability from their leaders after a report by an international organisation alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga re...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:59hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe takes Sikhala's case to British Parliament
EXILED opposition activist Makomborero Haruzivishe took the matter of Job Sikhala's prolonged political imprisonment to the British Parliament on 19 April 2023, hoping to increase international awaren...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:22hrs | 1395 | by Staff reporter
Biti left assault victim traumatised
LOCAL businesswoman Tatiana Aleshina yesterday told Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro that she was left traumatised and embarrassed when Citizens for Coalition Change vice-president Tendai ...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
'I thought Biti wanted to kill me'
The assault trial for Tendai Biti continued yesterday with the complainant businesswoman and investor Mrs Tatiana Aleshina telling the court that she thought the legislator was going to kill her when ...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:26hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's CCC struggles for rural candidates'
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s candidate selection process has reportedly hit a brickwall in some rural wards as villagers are said to be reluctant to come out in the open and stand as oppo...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:37hrs | 2094 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is rigging 2023 and CCC is participating out of greed; it's insane. Even the mentally challenged must know this
"You should be ashamed of yourself! How can you keep attacking Nelson Chamisa and his CCC party? They are the only hope for Zimbabwe!" came the caustic attack. How naïve!In my article, I ...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 508 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 81 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Court conviction haunts Tendai Biti
DAGGERS have been drawn in Harare East constituency where some voters are plotting to block attempts by incumbent Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Tendai Luxon Biti, from competing to ...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:52hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF frustrated supporters
A NEW voting system used in the ruling Zanu-PF's recent primaries left many supporters disillusioned, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal.Zanu-PF insiders said many supporters were turned away...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:49hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
2 000 vie for CCC Parly seats
A RECORD of 2 000 candidates are set to slug it out for the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party's parliamentary tickets in this year's general election, NewsDay reported.This ...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:35hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Professor Moyo dismiss Al Jazeera Gold Mafia as 'disjointed thesis'. He too is feeling fallout heat
When the story first broke that Al Jazeera was going to air a documentary of the gold smuggling and money laundering in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF regime and its apologists dismissed the whole thing s inconseq...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 23:36hrs | 2654 | by Wilbert Mukori
Electoral Bill, bad news for CCC
A NUMBER of sitting opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors and MPs may be barred from contesting the upcoming elections if the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is signed into law....Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:08hrs | 2073 | by Staff reporter
CCC big guns feel the heat
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs are in a last-minute rush to influence supporters to endorse them in the party's supporters-centred candidate selection process, where the party'...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:30hrs | 3344 | by Staff reporter
Biti's lawyers say businesswoman seeking revenge
Businesswoman Tatiana Aleshina, who caused the arrest of former Finance minister Tendai Biti on allegations of verbal abuse, is linked with at least 18 companies that the veteran lawyer is representin...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 11:32hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Biti moves to derail assault trial
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday filed an urgent chamber application to stop his trial in a case where he is accused of verbally assaulting local businesswoman, Tatiana Aleshina.I...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:44hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC disowns Sikhala?
THE opposition CCC has disowned Mr Job Sikhala, who is currently in remand prison facing a litany of charges, as the fallout between the party and its dissatisfied former top officials widens amid ind...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 02:34hrs | 2030 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs leak wounds
ATTEMPTS to settle for "safe constituencies" have backfired on several Zanu-PF party primary election candidates who contested away from their original areas.Under the Zanu-PF party constituti...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Biti's accuser fails to answer questions in court
Controversial businesswoman and Russian investor Tatiana Aleshina declined to answer the majority of questions posed to her about Ken Sharpe's company, Augur Investments during court cross-examination...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 10:06hrs | 1193 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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