HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been asked to regularise Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema’s appointment to avert a constitutional crisis as he now has more non-constituency MPs appointed as ministers, which is against the governance charter. This was raised by MDC MP for Mutare Central Innocent Gonese, who said that the executive was improperly…
HARARE – Veteran lawyer and opposition kingpin Tendai Biti is struggling to cope with the post-July 30 violence to the extent that he needs therapy and counselling services, the magistrates’ court was told yesterday. Biti said the traumatic disorder came as a result of the harrowing experience he went through at the hands of security…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa to withdraw the appointment of new Registrar-General Clemence Masango until he has been cleared of sexual harassment and corruption allegations levelled against him and two former colleagues at the Department of Immigration. Masango has flatly denied the allegations which he said were…
HARARE – Addressing the Gukurahundi Matabeleland massacres of the 1980’s is among the top priorities that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission will tackle, chairperson Selo Nare said. At a peace dialogue yesterday, the retired High Court judge said Gukurahundi, as it is known, will not be ignored. The Gukurahundi massacres that occurred in Matabeleland…
HARARE – The MDC party has yet again postponed its 19th anniversary celebrations which had been scheduled for the weekend. This is in compliance with a ban on public gatherings and street vending imposed by government in a bid to contain the spread of cholera, which has claimed more than 45 lives. MDC organising secretary…
HARARE – Police are maintaining a heavy presence in most of the country’s cities as authorities fear the worst amid a clampdown on desperate vendors who are now fighting back. In Harare, law enforcers have peppered the central business district with riot police officers, armed with batons while water canon vehicles routinely comb the streets….
HARARE – The price of cooking oil has shot up by more than 20 percent, adding to the cost-push inflationary pressures triggered by the recent wave of price adjustments. A survey by the Daily News showed that the standard price of a two-litre cooking oil bottle has gone up from about $2,75 last month to…
HARARE – Acting Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi met his match in the magistrates’ court on Tuesday when a top Harare lawyer representing former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere warned him to exercise restraint during prosecution or risk going down the same trail as some of his predecessors. Hodzi was appointed acting PG in July this…
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HARARE – Opposition MDC MP for Mutasa Central Trevor Saruwaka has pulled the rag from under politicians who flush money to entice voters by engaging experts to clarify roles of elected officials in the country’s parliamentary democracy. Saruwaka held the first workshop at Watsomba Business Centre where he engaged Southern Africa Parliamentary Support Trust (SAPST)…
