HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to banish Charlton Hwende and Shakespeare Mukoyi from the party because of their ‘‘wayward’’ conduct during the movement’s on-going primary elections. Hwende, a national standing committee member and Mukoyi, who is the deputy MDC youth assembly chairperson, are enmeshed in a bitter war of words as they…
HARARE – Mount Pleasant Heights residents have dragged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and its chairperson, Justice Priscillah Chigumba, to the High Court, accusing the electoral body of clandestinely transferring them to Mazowe South Constituency. According to the urgent chamber application, former Mt Pleasant Heights councillor Warship Dumba and Celine Eunice Nyakutsikwa are seeking a…
HARARE – The National Patriotic Front (NPF) has accused the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy of abusing former president Robert Mugabe by persistently summoning him to give oral evidence on the missing $15 billion reportedly stolen from Marange diamonds. NPF national spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire accused Temba Mliswa, who heads the portfolio committee, of…
HARARE – A parliamentary committee has recommended an investigation into the conduct of government officials, including former ministers, fingered in opaque deals involving the $200 million Gwanda solar project. The Temba Mliswa-chaired parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy and Mining Development has also recommended the dissolution of the Zesa Holdings board, as well as that of…
HARARE – A company owned by former president Robert Mugabe has been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay over $174 000 for potato seed acquired on credit in 2015. According to court papers, in July 2015, Seed Potato Co-op (Private) Limited entered into a verbal agreement with Gushungo Holdings, owned by the…
HARARE – Zanu PF is mobilising 2 million cross-border traders to make sure they are home by July 25 to vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the forthcoming do-or-die general elections. This comes after Mnangagwa announced on Wednesday the country’s national elections would take place on July 30 and that some 128 political parties are…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed Vincent Hungwe as the chairperson of the Civil Service Commission (CSC). The Constitution provides that the chairperson of the CSC shall be a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). Hungwe takes over the chairpersonship of the CSC from Mariyawanda Nzuwah, who was forced into retirement in March…
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 – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has uncovered a plot within his fractured Zanu PF party to impeach him in the event that he wins the presidential race in July this year, the Daily News heard yesterday. [Adz]
HARARE – The South African government has handed to the Zimbabwean government previously classified documents that were being kept at Rhodes University by the colonial Ian Smith regime. This was revealed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Harare yesterday. According to the president, among the documents are files implicating several individuals who were selling out by…
