HARARE – Frantic efforts to get President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, to iron out their differences through face-to-face discussions have collapsed with the 75-year-old Zanu PF leader saying he will only meet with his 40-year- old challenger in the ballot box on July 30. With the main political rivals pulling…
HARARE – In a sentence that could serve as a deterrent to would-be offenders, four villagers have been slapped with a total of 36 years — each serving nine years’ imprisonment — after they were found guilty of hunting a specially protected animal. Masvingo magistrate Peter Madiba handed down the sentence after a full trial…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections look set to end in a presidential run-off pitting Zanu PF leader and current President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, of the MDC Alliance. A survey by Afrobarometer yesterday, exactly 10 days before the much-awaited crunch July 30 elections, shows Mnangagwa getting 40 percent of the vote,…
HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and his colleague-turned-political rival, Thokozani Khupe, are accusing and counter-accusing each other of working with the ruling Zanu PF. This comes as the courts are yet to determine which faction of the MDC is the bona-fide owner of the party trademark after Chamisa lodged an application at…
HARARE – Former Energy and Power Development minister Samuel Undenge was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of criminal abuse of office. His sentencing marked the first high-profile conviction since the coming in of the so-called new dispensation under President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Undenge, who is among an illustrious list…
HARARE – Former Energy and Power Development minister Samuel Undenge was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of criminal abuse of office. [Adz]
HARARE – ZANU PF says contrary to earlier reports that party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo had been replaced as its official mouthpiece with politburo secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana, the situation has not changed. In a statement on Thursday the ruling party’s director of administration Dickson Dzora had announced that Mangwana would be the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to avail an electronic version of the voters’ roll for the July 30 elections to avoid unnecessary conflict. In a statement following their own independent audit of the voters’ roll which concluded that there were not so many irregularities…
HARARE – The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) has granted the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) a radio licence to operate a community station in Gweru. “Take notice that ZBC has been issued with a Broadcasting Service Licence by Baz in terms of its reservation provided in the Broadcasting Frequency Allotment Plan, General Notice 548A of…
HARARE – A group of prominent Elders yesterday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to iron out serious disagreements over a raft of electoral reform issues. The Elders who arrived in the country on Thursday and will be in Zimbabwe until today include former US President…
