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Mnangagwa gives wife key Politburo position
Zanu-PF first secretary, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed his wife, Auxillia into the politburo in a surprise reshuffle of the powerful organ.She is the new Zanu-PF secretary for Env...Published: 24 mins ago | 139 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa information dynasty as Mnangagwa reorganises politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday appointed new secretaries in his Zanu-PF party's politburo, while reassigning others.The mini-reshuffle will see former diplomat Christopher Mutsvangw...Published: 2 hrs ago | 664 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF excludes ex-Zapu members in new Politburo
ZANU-PF First Secretary President Mnangagwa yesterday reshuffled Politburo members with Christopher Mutsvangwa being appointed as the party's Secretary for Information and First Lady Auxillia Mn...Published: 2 hrs ago | 327 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo members reshuffled
Zanu-PF First Secretary President Mnangagwa yesterday reshuffled Politburo members, with Christopher Mutsvangwa being appointed as the party's Secretary for Information and First Lady Amai Auxil...Published: 2 hrs ago | 62 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2017 coup coalition collapses
THE fact that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Zanu-PF presidency at the party's elective congress next year, while factions loyal ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 13599 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges hear own appeal
SUPREME Court judges on Tuesday presided over their own appeal against a judgment by the High Court, which outlawed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of offi...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
SC hears Malaba judgment appeal
The Supreme Court is today expected to hear the appeal against the urgent High Court judgment over the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's service by another five years.Justice, Legal and...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Top Zanu-PF officials arrested as factional fights turn ugly
TWO top Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial officials were arrested by police last week after threatening to assault acting provincial chairperson, Abia Mujeri as tensions in the fractured ruling part...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 4353 | by Staff reporter
Have sex but Don't get married
The past week has seen a heated debate on social media after government has through the Minister of Justice and Parliamentary Cde Ziyambi Ziyambi gave the green light over the age of sexual consent to...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 19:12hrs | 3111 | by Desmond Nleya
Chiwenga to tackle Mnangagwa
IN a move that could have far-reaching political consequences for the ruling Zanu-PF and the nation, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in th...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:48hrs | 16351 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgement in asset declaration lawsuit
THE High Court has reserved judgement in a matter in which an opposition legislator launched a lawsuit against the government's failure to actualise a law that forces public officials, including Presi...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli warns fuel dealers against rejecting Zimdollar
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has warned fuel operators getting foreign currency through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) auction system that they risk losing their licenses if they continue rejecti...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Truant ministers cripple Parly
CABINET ministers have continued dodging the parliamentary question time in both the National Assembly and Senate, thereby doing a heavy blow to Parliament's key oversight function.The Q and A...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials hijacking Pfumvudza programme
LEGISLATORS have accused Zanu-PF bigwigs and government officials of hijacking the management of the Pfumvuza/Intwasa Presidential Input Scheme from the Lands and Agriculture ministry.On Wedne...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
ZBC hikes licence fees
Cabinet received an update in respect of Zimbabwe's Covid-19 response as presented by the Honourable Vice President Dr. CGDN Chiwenga as chairperson of the Ministers' National Committee.The na...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt running scared: CSOs
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday said government's move to introduce the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill was motivated by the desire to clamp down on human rights def...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 2814 | by Staff reporter
Lupane Magistrates courthouse almost complete
CONSTRUCTION of the Lupane Magistrates courthouse is almost complete with the main building, prison holding cells, waiting shed and ablution facilities already roofed.This comes as Government ...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:25hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi defends Zimbabwe's human rights record
MUTARE: Despite strong criticism against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime over its human rights violations, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says Zimbabwe remained committed to upholding the citi...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Justice Mushore still Awol after ruling against Malaba
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is keen on establishing why High Court judge Edith Mushore (pictured) has not been reporting for duty for weeks on end, amid concerns over the safety and health o...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:58hrs | 2050 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa legitimacy case moves gear up
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF have been served with court papers in a case where a member of the party's youth league is challenging the constitutionality of his ascendancy to po...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 4592 | by Staff reporter
Govt adamant on child marriages
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is adamant that it has accomplished a lot in stopping child marriages in Zimbabwe despite some reported rising cases of the pervasive practice.In resp...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 16:07hrs | 426 | by Stephen Jakes
There's more evidence of rampant corruption in Zimbabwe than imagined economic sanctions!
As the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan winds up her much talked about visit, I wonder what real incontrovertible evidence she has managed to garner, on how exactly the so-called 'e...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:28hrs | 895 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF elections mayhem exposes deadly infighting
POLITICAL temperature is boiling up in Zanu-PF's Mashonaland West province after acting chair Abiel Mujeri at the weekend barred provincial members from Zvimba, Chegutu, Makonde and Kadoma from presid...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1702 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF burns ahead of conference
BATTLES to control Zanu-PF structures raged across Zimbabwe this week, with the party's leadership struggling to complete the setting up of district structures ahead of the national conference slated ...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 19:12hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC getting hot under the collar over UN rapporteur's visit
Since the news of the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Ms Alena Douhan's visit to Zimbabwe was broken, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) and other anti-Government elements like political activist Hopewe...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 818 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa sticks to democratic practices
President Mnangagwa yesterday sworn-in commissioners for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and the Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC) — two vital institutions in the conduct of electoral processes...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
UN envoy itinerary raises red flag
OBSERVERS yesterday questioned the itinerary of the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Alena Douhan, released by government, which excludes opposition parties and civic society.Douhan, who...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1387 | by Staff writer
UN spotlights Zimbabwe sanctions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday met United Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Ms Alena Douhan, who is in the country to assess the impact of unilateral coercive measures imposed on the country by the Unit...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 315 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa's govt blocks UN Special Envoy from meeting Chamisa
THE government has excluded opposition parties and civic society organisations from meeting the United Nations special envoy, Alena Douhan.Douhan, who arrived in Zimbabwe on Monday, is in the ...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:34hrs | 3147 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF district elections kick-off
FIREWORKS are expected during the impending Zanu-PF district or ward elections across Mashonaland West province scheduled to kick off Tuesday.This follows a resolution Saturday by the provinci...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions lobbyists' days are numbered
THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Ms Alena Douhan, will be in the country from tomorrow to October 28, ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:58hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP assaults party youth as tempers flare ahead of elections
ZVIMBA East Member of Parliament, Tawanda Tungamirai punched and verbally assaulted a fellow Zanu-PF youth member Saturday just before the party's decisive meeting to pass a resolution to hold distric...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:53hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Fresh turmoil rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is undergoing a fresh turmoil threatening intra-party stability as jostling for provincial leadership reaches fever-pitch.The chaos has rocked all the provinces as warring factions in ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
UN rapporteur visit to expose sanctions damage
THE visit next week by a United Nations special rapporteur to investigate the impact of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe will help lay bare the full extent of how the embargo is a violation of human righ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Businessman files complaint against High Court judge over property deal
HARARE businessman Kingston Hamutendi Munyawarara, the executive director of Bariadie Investments (Private) Limited, has lodged an official complaint against High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi (...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Legislators give SONA thumbs up
Parliamentarians from across the political divide yesterday commended President Mnangagwa for addressing issues affecting the country when he presented the State of the Nation Address and opened the F...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
'G40 members on prowl'
SOME members of the dumped Generation 40 (G40) are tactically positioning themselves to weaken and topple President Mnangagwa and the Second Republic, Zanu-PF Politburo member Ziyambi Ziyambi said on ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi tears into Mliswa-Chikoka
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West is living to its billing as a political hotbed with internecine battles for control of provincial structures continuing unabated among party bigwigs.During Sunday's Za...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:31hrs | 2512 | by Staff reporter
Teacher drags Chiwenga to court
A KWEKWE-based primary school teacher, Mercy Mjikwa, has dragged the Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga to court over new Covid-19 rules targeting unvaccinated citizens.In an urgent chamber ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 2899 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters
WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba fr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case: The key actors
ZIMBABWE, for the past four months has been going through a constitutional test and legal drama following the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term in May, which was put to bed last week follo...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 963 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on govt over whistleblower protection law
STAKEHOLDERS in the fight against corruption have pressured government to expedite crafting and enactment of a law that protects whistleblowers who play a critical role in exposing graft within instit...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:41hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says judicial independence guaranteed
President Mnangagwa yesterday told the Southern Africa Chief Justices' Forum jointly hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia in Victoria Falls that the Second Republic would continue respecting the independence...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Victoria Falls for conferences
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday evening ahead of a double-header official opening of the Southern Africa Chief Justices' Forum (SACJF) and Institute for Chartered Governance and Accountancy...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:12hrs | 229 | by q
Kwekweza, Zimudzi set free over protest against tinkering with constitution
HARARE Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has set free two pro-democracy campaigners who had been on trial on charges of promoting public violence after they were arrested for allegedly protesting ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:55hrs | 621 | by Stephen Jakes
Mary Mliswa accused of ordering arrests of rival
THE internecine factional ructions battle for control of Mashonaland West Zanu-PF has reached a crescendo, with claimant to the provincial chairmanship, Vengai Musengi this week accusing Provincial Af...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1635 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi dragged to court
A FORMER ZESA employee has dragged Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to court after he was blocked from filing a US$550 000 lawsuit against the power utility.Ken Francis Manyellah intended to s...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:51hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Parly pushes for 25% youth quota
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has been ordered to craft a Bill amending the Constitution to increase the youth quota in Parliament from the 10% to 25%.Speaking in Parliament last Thursday, ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF reaches 3,6 million members
THE ruling party, Zanu-PF whose 2023 harmonised election voter-drive targets five-million people is achievable with at least 3,6 million eligible voters having been recorded under the party's cell reg...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
MPs, govt cross swords over forced vaccination
BUSINESS almost ground to a halt in Parliament on Wednesday when MPs from across the political divide challenged government's recent decision to ban unvaccinated civil servants from reporting for duty...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1170 | by Staff reporter
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