MATABELELAND North provincial education director (Ped) Jabulani Mpofu said the Education ministry has shelved the compulsory order for schools in the area to hold vacation lessons for Grade 5 to 7 and for Form Five classes this coming school holiday. [GoogleAd] This comes after the Ped had given a directive to heads of schools in…
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has received an early boost ahead of what could turn out to be a bruising contest when the MDC congress gets underway next month after bagging two nominations from two provinces so far. While many have predicted a tussle of Titanic proportions between Chamisa, his deputy Elias Mudzuri and secretary general…
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) says it has started to implement recommendations by the former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe-led Commission of Inquiry citing that police officers will be going under re-training stemming from their 2019 rebranding strategy. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga says his force is working towards re-branding itself to restore…
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has petitioned MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa over “rampant corruption” at the opposition-run Norton Town Council (NTC) after Zimplats Holdings Limited (Zimplats) was frustrated from setting up a Share Ownership Trust chicken abattoir due to “exorbitant rates”. [GoogleAd] He said upon further inquiry, it was made known to him “that…
TOP MDC officials, including party president Nelson Chamisa and his potential challenger Douglas Mwonzora are not leaving anything to chance as they traverse the country coaxing through proxies for nominations ahead of the opposition movement’s elective congress next month. [GoogleAd] So far Chamisa has been nominated by three provinces with his rival Mwonzora on the…
Zim policies hitting poor hardest: UN expertsGovernment policies are worsening the country’s economic crisis, causing immense hardship to those less well-off, and crushing the human rights of those who dare complain, a group of United Nations experts have warned. [GoogleAd] The warning comes from UN experts namely Philip Alston (Australia), special rapporteur on extreme poverty…
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has joined her husband in hiring pricey private jets — which cost taxpayers thousands of United States dollars. [GoogleAd] The first lady returned home from Dubai on Tuesday last week aboard a private jet Airbus A318-112 (CJ) Elite chartered for her and her travelling party. She had gone to Dubai for…
THE MDC-T breakaway faction led by Thokozani Khupe has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government as legitimate, throwing its full weight behind national dialogue meetings being championed by the Zanu PF leader. [GoogleAd] According to the MDC-T, the question of Mnangagwa’s legitimacy is misplaced because his administration was declared duly elected by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission…
THE MDC has entered a crucial week after it set the ball rolling on provincial nominations for the party’s national leadership over the weekend, ahead of next month’s do-or-die elective congress. [GoogleAd] Coming against the background of intense jostling for positions within the main opposition party, the congress scheduled to run from May 24 to…
PARLIAMENT’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday grilled officials representing Univern — a company awarded multi-million-dollar contracts by the Zimbabwe National Road Agency (Zinara). According to Grant Thornton’s forensic audit report, Univern — trading as Southern Region Trading Company — signed several contracts with Zinara without the parastatal having floated proper tenders. [GoogleAd] The contracts covered vehicle,…
