HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, has spoken at the Oxford Union about his contentious rise to the MDC presidency. The 40-year-old opposition leader spoke to students about the recent MDC split over leadership struggles that have seen one of the vice presidents Thokozani Khupe walk out to form her own movement. Chamisa…
HARARE – The mainstream MDC has called to order senior party members who are eyeing constituencies that have been reserved for members of its youth assembly. The party has reserved at least 20 percent of the contested seats, at both local authority and parliamentary levels, for young people. But with elections fast approaching around July/August…
HARARE – The High Court has ordered Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye to pay over $400 000, including interest, borrowed from a local bank over five years ago. The court heard on May 24, 2011, CBZ Bank Limited and Kagonye entered into an agreement in which the bank agreed to provide the politician…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is fighting to protect its property attached to settle a $450 000 debt owed to a company contracted to partake in a $4 million borehole drilling project. This follows the High Court’s decision to grant Water Logistics Investments (Private) Limited a writ of execution in March this year…
HARARE – Teachers have strongly disagreed over what course of action to take after government’s offer of a 10 percent salary increment was not universally accepted by the unions — prompting sharp divisions which saw most of the schools reporting full staff complement at the commencement of the new term yesterday. The country’s largest teachers’…
HARARE – As was first exclusively reported by the Daily News early last month, it has now been confirmed that the apparent plan by former leader Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace to sink President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election bid in this year’s keenly-anticipated national polls is effectively dead in the water. [Adz]
HARARE – As was first exclusively reported by the Daily News early last month, it has now been confirmed that the apparent plan by former leader Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace to sink President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election bid in this year’s keenly-anticipated national polls is effectively dead in the water. This comes as the…
HARARE – Former President Robert Mugabe will not appear before Zimbabwe’s Parliament as scheduled today to answer questions on diamond mining operations, a legislator said. Temba Mliswa, who leads the parliamentary committee on Mines, said the clerk of Parliament hadn’t written to Mugabe to invite him to appear. “It has been delayed but that resolution…
HARARE – Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday denied using bleaches to lighten his skin tone. Speaking publicly for the first time at the burial of his late sister Margaret Machekabuwe at Machekabuwe farm yesterday, Chiwenga claimed he had contracted a sickness during Operation Restore Legacy that changed his complexion, according to the State-run Herald newspaper….
HARARE – Cabinet will sit on Thursday this week just after President Emmerson Mnangagwa returns home from Qatar where he held high-level talks with his counterpart Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. Chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said the meeting would be held at the usual venue and time. “The chief secretary…
