HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s death dominated news bulletins, radio airwaves and websites throughout the world yesterday as tributes poured in for a man seen as the most effective opposition leader in Zimbabwe since independence. The late 65-year-old, who has left a towering legacy, was pronounced dead on Wednesday in South Africa where he was undergoing…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition yesterday named Nelson Chamisa to succeed Morgan Tsvangirai who died in South Africa on Wednesday, but some within the opposition rejected the choice. Chamisa, 40, was chosen to lead the country’s largest opposition party, which was thrown into crisis by the death of the former prime minister, who had been…
HARARE – Police detective Joseph Nemaisa, who is facing assault charges, allegedly refused to sign a warned and cautioned statement in a bid to frustrate his prosecution over the case, a court heard yesterday. Nemaisa was summoned to appear before Mbare magistrate Sharon Rakafa following an incident in which he assaulted a Central Intelligence Organisation…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is under pressure to bestow the highest State honour on the late former prime minister and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who is being lauded for asserting Zimbabwe’s civic and political rights and giving a lifetime of service that will endure through generations. Tsvangirai died on Wednesday after a one-and-half-year battle…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has reported it was now free of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu that hit the country between May and August last year. Poultry producer Lanark, a commercial farm 25km south of the capital Harare, was hit with the outbreak on its farm, which was quarantined and the site affected depleted of…
HARARE – The MDC National Council has appointed Nelson Chamisa as the party’s acting president following the death of its founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai, 65, died in South Africa on Wednesday after a long battle with colon cancer. Chamisa, 40, was one of his three deputies. [Adz]
HARARE – Three Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) directors have been given the boot while four others have been forced into indefinite leave pending an audit of the examinations system as the examinations body announced 2017 Ordinary Level results will be out by February 23. The Zimsec board rang the changes yesterday following outrage over…
HARARE – Opposition MDC leader and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has died at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize successively in 2008 and 2009, the veteran leader died late afternoon yesterday surrounded by his family in the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will on Saturday join the rest of the world in marking World Pangolin Day as wildlife authorities step up efforts to help save the endangered “scaly ant-eater” and the world’s most trafficked animal. In Zimbabwe, pangolins were placed on the Specially Protected Species Schedule in 1975. This has not changed, and under…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday deferred again to March 14 the hearing of the legal challenge to government’s decision to bar expatriate Zimbabweans from voting from their foreign bases in the forthcoming key 2018 vote. Chief Justice Luke Malaba on January 18 gave the green light to three Zimbabweans living outside the country…
