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Mnangagwa's ED2030 faction has plan for Zanu-PF conference
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies are reportedly planning to propose a constitutional amendment at the upcoming Zanu-PF annual conference in Bulawayo to extend his presidency beyond the curr...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 14:58hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Bunjira Jnr gets Warriors select call-up
CAPS United winger Alois Junior Bunjira has been called up to the Warriors select squad for an exhibition match against the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) team at Rufaro Stadium. This match was organiz...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 07:03hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops installation of chief
The installation of Chief Katerere, set to occur at Bande Primary School in Nyanga district, has been halted by the High Court following challenges to the eligibility of Alexio Chinongwa Nyamhute...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's power retention moves face tricky constitutional hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to seek a third term in office, which he has set in motion, faces legal hurdles because the constitution bars incumbents from benefiting from an amendment allowing a...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Self-styled Italian Mafia boss exposed for abusing General Chiwenga's name to grab mines and companies
In a heart-pounding revelation, this reporter has uncovered the dark machinations of Francesco Marconati, a self-styled Italian Mafia Boss wreaking havoc across Zimbabwe. Marconati stands accused of s...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 10:57hrs | | by George Tshuma
Mnangagwa's gamble faces legal hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's long-standing bid to seek a third term in office faces legal hurdles amid revelations by constitutional law experts that any constitutional amendment for an extension of...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's resigned MPs can contest again not as CCC members
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) members of Parliament who resign in solidarity with former leader Nelson Chamisa who quit the party last week are free to contest again in by-elections called to f...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF suspends five over land
Zanu-PF has suspended five Mutare District Coordination Committee members for alleged indiscipline and illegal parcelling out of land in the Gimboki area of Mutare under the cover of the ruling party'...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 09:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, Prison boss dragged to court
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu have been taken to court for failing to sanction a prison officer for dabblin...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer hits prison officer with lawsuit over partisan conduct
A LAWYER has approached the High Court seeking an order for the dismissal of a prison officer, who is vigorously involved in partisan politics, in contravention of constitutional provisions that bar c...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:15hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Innocent Gonese quits CCC politics
Veteran opposition activist and former long-serving legislator for Mutare Central, Innocent Gonese, has officially retired from active politics. Gonese made the announcement of his retirement in a pri...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
1 month behind bars for 'insulting' Mnangagwa
A man from Mutare spent a month in custody for purportedly insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, according to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR). Elroy Anesu Muchaya (28), an unemployed re...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa badly missed veterans
WITH the national election done and dusted, it has become apparent that there are several Members of the National Assembly from the ninth parliament that will not be joining the new faces at the new p...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa keeps Mnangagwa guessing amid tension
Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has kept President Emmerson Mnangagwa guessing about his next move by not filing a Constitutional Court challenge against the Zanu-PF leader's...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:36hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
CCC demands fresh polls
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has demanded fresh elections supervised by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) as the United States revealed that it was engaging regional ...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso restore 5-point lead
League leaders Highlanders restored their five-point lead at the top of the premiership table with a 1-0 defeat of basement side Black Rhinos in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League Match Day 19 clash...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 18:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwi slams CCC over ballot printing demand
Zanu-PF Deputy Secretary for Legal Affairs and Mazowe South legislator, Fortune Chasi has slammed the opposition CCC for making bizarre and unreasonable demands such as wanting to witness the printing...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Police fail to hold Zanu-PF bigwigs accountable
POLICE in Manicaland and Gutu are shying away from arresting Mutare Central Zanu-PF candidate Esau Mupfumi and Zanu-PF parliamentary chief whip Pupurai Togarepi over incidents of violence against Citi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison boss shields partisan officer
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services has ignored a letter written to it by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights attorney Innocent Gonese over the misconduct of ZPCS officer Caroline Manjongo who ha...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidate faces protest vote
Mutare Central MP Innocent Gonese did not take part in the party's candidate nomination process after serving for years.According to insiders, Gonese handpicked former Mutare mayor, Brian Jame...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 19:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Rights lawyers demand action against Zanu-PF prison officer
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) lawyer Innocent Gonese of Lawman Law Chambers (LLC) has written to Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu demandi...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster in trouble over Zanu-PF candidature
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is pushing for the dismissal of Mvurwi Secondary School headmaster over alleged partisan conduct after he was nominated to represent Zanu-PF in the upcoming el...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidates selection latest
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa is reportedly fighting to contain the fallout in his party after some party leaders, including his deputy Tendai Biti reportedly lost in the c...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nomination fees divide Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT has been torn apart after its Legal Committee issued a non-adverse report, effectively endorsing the exorbitant nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for candidates wishi...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Law Society of Zimbabwe probes lawyer in property scam
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) is looking into a case in which prominent Mutare lawyer Cosmas Chibaya of Chibaya and Partners Legal Practitioners is accused of selling a residential stand he knew w...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Inside Elections: Stalemate in Manicaland? Perhaps not
This is the second in a series of (inside elections) articles examining the politics and voting patterns of 2023 general election expected swing/marginal National Assembly constituencies.To wi...Published: 28 May 2023 at 12:39hrs | | by Farai Chirimumimba
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 | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate 'buses' rural voters to urban constituency
Zanu-PF central committee member Esau Mupfumi is in a storm for reportedly bussing voters from rural communities for a voter registration exercise in Mutare Central constituency ahead of the 2023 elec...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 CCC veteran MPs walks away from Chamisa?
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators for Mutare Central and Mutasa Central, Innocent Gonese and Trevor Saruwaka have stepped down from contesting in this year's polls despite being nominate...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry complicit in Zimbabwean football ban
YOUTH, Sport, Arts and Recreation minister, Kirsty Coventry has quashed any lingering hopes of the government reinstating the fired Zifa board members as has been demanded by Fifa for the country's su...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders milking Zanu-PF candidates
Traditional leaders in Masvingo province mainly in Zaka district are making a killing from Zanu-PF candidates who are campaigning ahead of party primary elections set for Saturday March 25.Can...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that Zimbabwe upholds good governance
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa told delegates attending the Zimbabwe Second Structured Dialogue Platform Meeting that the country is upholding tenets of good governance and democracy as part of efforts ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parly demands voters roll
IN a rare show of solidarity, legislators from across the political divide yesterday closed ranks to unanimously demand an electronic copy of the voters roll from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Ze...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Gonese distances self from US$40,000 govt loan
Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) Mutare Central Member of Parliament Innocent Gonese has distanced himself from the US$ 40 000 loans offered to members of Parliament by government.Gonese sai...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sarcastic' Hwende chased out of Parliament
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende was on Thursday [yesterday] chased out of parliament before he could debate the budget, apparently for no...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 09:58hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe MPs in near fist fight
THERE was chaos in Parliament yesterday with legislators almost exchanging blows after Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe claimed that reports of political violence were "lies".Opposition M...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe summoned as tempers flare up
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has been summoned to Parliament to issue a ministerial statement on what the police is doing to clamp down on perpetrators of political violence targeting opposit...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga confronted over Zimbabwe's nurses' mass exodus
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga was confronted by legislators in Parliament yesterday over the mass exodus of nurses and other health professionals as well underfunding of the health sector....Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Energy Minister absconds Parliament for 2 months amid deepening power crisis
PARLIAMENTARIANS have demanded that Energy Minister Soda Zhemu avails himself to the National Assembly to respond to questions regarding continuous power outages that have been going on for months wit...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs blast 'dishonest' Mthuli Ncube in heated tax-free salary stand-off
LEGISLATORS stood their ground in Parliament this week, firmly rejecting what they saw as a bid by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube to use the Senate to backtrack on a commitment to increase th...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda rejects opposition legislators' PVOs Bill plea
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has rejected calls by opposition legislators to recommit the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill to the Committee Reading Stage after c...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda to give verdict on PVOs Bill
OPPOSITION legislators have demanded that processes on the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill be halted until Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda delivers a verdict on al...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charts new inclusive path
THE Government will give a holistic account of the country's liberation struggle by honouring forgotten heroes such as the late Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and James Chikerema among others for their c...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Never challenge, breach or compromise Unity Accord'
THE 1987 Unity Accord is a key pillar of national peace and stability, and should never be challenged, breached or compromised, President Mnangagwa has said.Writing in his weekly column, publi...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, July Moyo accused of bunking Parliament
MEMBERS of Parliament (MP) have expressed outrage at the repeated failure to attend House of Assembly business by some cabinet ministers and accused the Executive branch of government of disrespecting...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Minister denies police, army involvement in robberies
HOME Affairs deputy minister Ruth Mavhunga-Maboyi has professed ignorance to the involvement of serving and ex-police and army members allegedly committing robberies and various other crimes in the co...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs kicked out of Parliament
THREE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators were ejected from Parliament Wednesday as the opposition legislators questioned the detention of their colleagues at the notorious Chikurubi Maxim...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawmakers demand names of forex manipulators
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have demanded that the Finance ministry should bring a list of all exchange rate manipulators to the House so that they are named and shamed.This was after Finance ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MPs fume over exchange rate manipulation
LEGISLATORS have demanded that the Finance ministry must bring a list of all exchange rate manipulators to Parliament and those who have benefitted from the foreign currency auction system.Thi...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court scraps Mthuli Ncube's 2020 taxes on fuel
The High Court has refused to endorse a new carbon tax on fuel and the redemption levy of the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe imposed two years ago on the grounds that these could not be levied by ex...Published: 04 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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