HARARE – ZANU PF has started a witch-hunt targeting prospective legislators and officials fingered by the country’s spy arms for allegedly plotting a post-election impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. See today’s paper for more details. [Adz]
MUTARE – Hundreds of residents in the high density suburb of Sakubva took to the streets on Thursday, protesting the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Zetdc)’s decision to switch off power to council-rented houses over a $2 million debt. Zetdc, a unit of Zesa Holdings Limited, pulled the plug on Tuesday last week because…
HARARE – Harare residents are not happy with the privatisation of the city’s quarry business, saying the process was only meant to give its directors and executives an opportunity to line their pockets. Residents, through the Harare Residents Trust (HRT), argued this week that the resolution that gave rise to the privatisation must be reversed….
HARARE – Legal experts have expressed mixed reactions over the Constitutional Court (Con-Court)’s ruling in which it threw out an application filed by those in the Diaspora who had sought to exercise their right to vote in the forthcoming elections slated for July 30. While, some lawyers believe the ruling was off the mark, respected law…
CHEGUTU – Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday admitted that the President Emmerson Mnangagwa so-called new dispensation is a “junta government” that came to power through a coup carried out by trained cadres. Addressing hundreds of Zanu PF supporters in the now ghostly town of Chegutu in Mashonaland West Province, the former State Security minister said…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, received a five-star treatment when he surfaced at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday to face charges of illegally skipping the country’s boarder in November last year. When the 47-year-old politician arrived at court, he was taken through routine vetting procedures but was not booked into…
HARARE – A Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer reportedly connived with Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) corporate secretary to conceal vehicle registration details of a car that was supposed to be in neighbouring South Africa. The Zimra officer, Kenedi Ganyiwa, aged 57, appeared in court yesterday and was remanded by Harare magistrate Edwin Marecha to…
HARARE – ZANU PF Kuwadzana Member of Parliament Betty Kaseke caused a stir in the National Assembly on Wednesday after she entered the august House while putting on a scarf with colours associated with the Zimbabwean flag. There was commotion in the House when Kaseke entered the chamber, draped with the scarf popularised by President…
HARARE – Senior MDC official David Coltart has dismissed the results of a poll by the Pan-African Forum Limited (PAFL) which claimed on Wednesday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa would win 70 percent of the vote if elections were held now. Writing on Twitter, Coltart dismissed the PAFL as a “suspect organisation” and said the survey…
HARARE – ZANU PF Mutasa South legislator Irene Zindi alleged in the National Assembly on Wednesday that her main opponent in the just-ended party primary elections rigged the poll. Zindi poured her heart out after independent Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa said women parliamentarians were doing nothing in their respective constituencies and that…
