HARARE – The High Court yesterday barred Zanu PF members from intimidating supporters of Murewa South constituency independent parliamentary candidate Noah Mangondo ahead of the harmonised elections. High Court judge Owen Tagu granted the interim order on Tuesday. Mangondo is a former Zanu PF central committee member who is squaring off with Zanu PF provincial…
HARARE – Jailed ex-minister Samuel Undenge yesterday advised a Harare Magistrates’ Court that he will apply for bail at the High Court following his conviction for criminal abuse of office. Undenge, who was sentenced to four years in prison, withdrew an application for bail pending appeal he intended to lodge at the Harare Magistrates’ Court…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday deployed its officers in huge numbers in Harare’s Central Business District (CBD) and surrounding areas, to thwart a possible MDC Alliance demonstration which the authorities had banned on Tuesday. Apart from this, authorities have also deployed more than 70 000 officers across the country for Monday’s crunch harmonised…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has dodged a bullet after opposition leader Nelson Chamisa — who has been feuding with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) — yesterday committed anew to facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Monday’s crunch polls, albeit under protest. And in yet more good news, Chamisa also announced yesterday that the MDC Alliance would not…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has dodged a bullet after opposition leader Nelson Chamisa — who has been feuding with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) — yesterday committed anew to facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Monday’s crunch polls, albeit under protest. [Adz]
HARARE – Zimbabwe is still feeling the effects of the Avian Bird flu — months after it ravaged the poultry industry — as local production of hatching eggs has remained depressed. According to a June update from the Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (LMAC), between January and March 2018, laying breeder stocks declined from 298…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has thrown a lifeline to white commercial farmers by inviting them to enter into joint ventures with resettled farmers as part of reviving agriculture and boosting the economy. Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri told the white farmers — many of whom struggled under deposed leader Robert…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has deployed election monitors across the country to participate during and after the election period. ZHRC monitors commenced their duties on July 23 and will stretch up to August 6. “In terms of section 243 (c) of the Constitution one of the functions of ZHRC is to…
HARARE – Fourteen families were left homeless after fire gutted a block of flats in Mbare on Tuesday evening — forcing government to temporarily shelter them in idle offices of the now-defunct Rufaro Marketing. Rufaro Marketing was an arm of the Harare City Council which ran beer halls in the capital’s sprawling townships before its…
HARARE – The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has appealed to be “notched up the priority list” by policy makers to access foreign currency for the effective network expansion, upgrades and maintenance. Potraz director-general Gift Machengete on Monday told delegates during the unveiling of the Maitengwe base station in Matabeleland South Province…
