HARARE – Zimbabwe must rejoin the Commonwealth as there are plenty of opportunities to resurrect the country’s economy, analysts and opposition parties have said. The Commonwealth — whose nations represent nearly one-third of the world’s seven billion people — banned former president Robert Mugabe from its decision-making council in 2002, after he was accused of…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will keep his mansion in the leafy suburb of Highlands even under the current new dispensation, putting paid to manoeuvres by extremists in the ruling Zanu PF who were agitating for the eviction of the former prime minister, the Daily News can exclusively report. There has been controversy regarding…
HARARE – A man accused of undermining the authority of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was yesterday released on $100 bail by magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa. Gastaff Kativhu, 46, allegedly entered the venue of the Zanu PF extraordinary congress in Harare and headed to the VIP tent while waving placards accusing Mnangagwa of killing his friend and calling…
HARARE – Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou has implored government to create content and material that is in all the 16 official languages recognised under the new Constitution. Speaking at a PTUZ curriculum symposium, Zhou said government made the wrong assumption that English, Shona and Ndebele were the only languages of…
HARARE – National Vendors’ Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) chairperson Sten Zvorwadza was yesterday freed in a case in which he was accused of undermining the authority of former president Robert Mugabe. Zvorwadza, who was represented by Jeremiah Bamu of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, was accused of undermined the authority of or insulting Mugabe in…
HARARE – Government must decommission bond notes because they are fuelling a thriving black market, a senior MDC official has said. MDC secretary for Economic Affairs Tapiwa Mashakada said the solution lies in coming up with strategies to destroy the black market. [Adz] He said the problem of pricing does not even require the Competition…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo has applied to the magistrates court to have his bail conditions relaxed to allow him to attend to his farm in Rafingora, Mashonaland West. He made the application through his lawyers — Lovemore Madhuku and Tungamirai Muganhiri — before Harare magistrate, Josephine Sande, who reserved judgment on the…
HARARE – A policeman accused of torching former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri’s house before exchanging fire with soldiers was on Thursday remanded in custody to January 16. Hardlife Maukazuva, 27, made his first appearance at the Harare Magistrates’ Court in December, facing charges of unlawful entry into Chihuri’s property in aggravating circumstances, malicious damage to…
HARARE – Former Cabinet ministers Walter Mzembi and Samuel Undenge were arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday on charges of abuse of office. Mzembi was the Foreign Affairs minister before the fall of ex-president Robert Mugabe while Undenge was in charge of the Energy and Power Development portfolio. [Adz] At the time of…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who is battling colon cancer, at his residence in Highlands yesterday where they held private discussions for close to an hour. Tsvangirai made public his health condition last year and ever since he has been in-and-out of hospital — a development that has triggered divisive…
