HARARE – The State has accused jet-setting Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo of seeking to evade justice by approaching higher offices for assistance after getting wind of his intended arrest. Chivayo and his company — Intratek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited — are being charged with fraud, money laundering and contravening two sections of the Exchange Control Act….
HARARE – The MDC Alliance is racing against time in its desperate bid to overturn results of the just-ended polls, with the party keeping the whole world guessing about the veracity of the evidence it claims to have gathered to justify a vote recount. MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, has rejected in toto the poll…
HARARE – The MDC Alliance is racing against time in its desperate bid to overturn results of the just-ended polls, with the party keeping the whole world guessing about the veracity of the evidence it claims to have gathered to justify a vote recount. [Adz]
HARARE – Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is set to auction confiscated goods and those seized for flouting various customs regulations next week. This comes after the Authority’s Commissioner-General Faith Mazani ordered a rummage sale to be held for the Bulawayo Ports at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Grounds’ Rabbit Hall. Vehicles including a Marcoplos Bus,…
HARARE – “We’re going to fight this,” Tendai Biti said grimly after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) announced a landslide victory for the ruling Zanu PF in last Monday’s elections. “The fascists are trying to steal this election, but we won’t accept it,” said the veteran opposition leader, who is one of the co-leaders of…
HARARE – The country’s ninth Parliament will be dominated by new faces as most of the legislators from the eighth Parliament lost in last week’s harmonised elections. Almost three quarters of MPs from the previous Parliament failed to find their way back into the National Assembly some having even lost during the primary elections. The…
HARARE – Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) has condemned the attacks on journalists during and after last Wednesday’s protests that left seven people dead. The organisation said it had received several reports of journalists who were injured while covering the violent clashes. “A soldier assaulted Idah Mhetu, a New Zimbabwe journalist while she covered…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government should thoroughly investigate last week’s army killings of seven people and the injury of many others following post-electoral violence in Harare, Amnesty International (AI) has said. Violent protests erupted on Wednesday last week after it became apparent that the opposition MDC Alliance was headed for poll defeat by Zanu…
HARARE – MISA Zimbabwe has slammed the army for attempting to censor journalists during Wednesday’s demonstration in the capital by ordering them to switch off their video recording equipment and cameras. In a statement, Misa Zimbabwe said the right to access information and media freedom as provided for in the Constitution remains fundamental as the…
HARARE – American civil rights activist, Reverend Jesse Jackson, says any dispute in the recent election should be addressed through the legal system in an open and transparent way. In a congratulatory message to president-elect, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Jackson said Zimbabweans should also be free to demonstrate peacefully without intimidation and violence. “In any election, there…
