HARARE – Harare South residents have challenged the decision compelling them to contribute towards the payment of $26 million to CFI Holdings Limited (CFI) as compensation for the company’s land they occupied. They argue that government must pay the amount as compensation to the company. This comes after CFI, a subsidiary company of Crest Breeders…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to dish out free land to churches in a move likely to be seen as a tactic to sway the electorate ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Traditionally, Zanu PF — even during deposed Robert Mugabe’s time — has appealed to churches during election season. Mnangagwa made the…
HARARE – Harare councillors have proposed to name one of the streets in the CBD after the late opposition MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai — who died last month aged 65 after a long battle with colon cancer — is credited for changing the face of Zimbabwean politics after winning against deposed long-ruling Robert…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police has effected yet more changes in the force, with senior officers in the Police Protection Unit (PPU) — who were providing security to the Mugabes — being redeployed. This was revealed last week in a police radio announcement. PPU — comprising five sections namely Parliament, relief, diplomats, escorts, and…
HARARE – While the National Patriotic Front (NPF) has confirmed retired brigadier-general Ambrose Mutinhiri as its presidential candidate, the former minister of State for Mashonaland East Province has coyly batted away questions over his presidential ambitions. The Zipra veteran who wrote a stinging resignation letter condemning the November soft military coup that toppled long ruling…
HARARE – ZANU PF is not taking lightly the threat posed by its former leader, Robert Mugabe, who has refused to retire quietly following his forced resignation last November. Mugabe has been taking pot-shots at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, saying its rise to power was through a “coup”. He has since taken his message to…
BULAWAYO – The violence that rocked the MDC here over the weekend has been roundly condemned, even from within the opposition party itself, with officials accusing a South African-based senior official of instigating the skirmishes. This comes as the party has deployed its security and intelligence head and arbiter-general, Giles Mutsekwa, to the second city…
HARARE – Ousted former president Robert Mugabe has thrown his full weight behind the New Patriotic Front (NPF), led in the interim by retired brigadier general Ambrose Mutinhiri, in what is likely to split the ruling party vote at the forthcoming polls, the Daily News can report. Initiated in November last year, NPF had largely…
HARARE – Ousted former president Robert Mugabe has thrown his full weight behind the New Patriotic Front (NPF), led in the interim by retired brigadier general Ambrose Mutinhiri, in what is likely to split the ruling party vote at the forthcoming polls, the Daily News can report. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) director-general Edson Chidziya was yesterday acquitted on charges of concealing an audit report that exposed a $3 million rhino horn scam. Chidziya was represented by Lovemore Madhuku and was cleared after a full trial held before Harare regional magistrate Elijah Makomo. Zimparks wildlife officer Padgewell…
