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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…

HARARE – Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to spearhead the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) as one of the many reliable interventions to tackle corruption which has proved to be endemic in the country in the past two decades. This was revealed during the launch of the Annual State of Corruption…

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will today wind up a two-day training for election agents for all political parties participating in Monday’s crucial national harmonised elections. In a statement Zec’s acting chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana said those who will complete the training will form part of the observation teams for the polls….

HARARE – ZANU PF has dragged two erstwhile members contesting as parliamentary candidates in the forthcoming elections, seeking to bar them from using its slogans in their campaigns. In two separate urgent chamber applications, Zanu PF is suing Wilbert Mubaiwa and Oswell Ndumo Gwanzura, accusing them of using President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s picture on their T-shirts…

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) said yesterday it welcomes the decision by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to review the positioning of voting booths ahead of next Monday’s harmonised elections by reverting back to the set-up in previous elections. The proposed positioning of the voting booths which would have seen voters casting…

HARARE – A bulletins manager at ZBC yesterday denied commissioning or airing news items that Zanu PF legislator and television personality Oscar Pambuka charged Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) $12 650 for. Maziwisa and Pambuka are answering to fraud charges before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube. They allegedly charged ZPC $12 650 for facilitating to have the…

HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi yesterday told the court that he was undergoing cancer treatment in South Africa when he missed a court hearing. Mzembi — who is facing a slew of corruption charges — was represented by Job Sikhala who tendered proof that his client was battling cancer, and had missed a…

HARARE – The wife of former deputy Finance minister and Zanu PF Mutoko South Member of Parliament (MP) David Chapfika has won a divorce settlement in the High Court. After a convoluted divorce battle, Abina Chapfika (nee Mutimusakwa) — his wife of over 32-years — won unlimited use of their motor vehicles, namely Toyota Vigo,…

HARARE – Plans by the MDC Alliance to demonstrate against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) today were thrown into disarray yesterday after police refused to sanction the protests due to the “absence of manpower” — as many officers are said to be undergoing training ahead of next week’s national elections. At the same time tempers…