HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he had forgiven all but three members of the vanquished G40 faction as he urged Zimbabweans in the Diaspora to come back home “to help rebuild the country.” Mnangagwa travelled to South Africa on his first foreign trip as head of State, visiting a country where he sought…
HARARE – The Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has reprimanded the Zimbabwe–South Africa (Zim-SA) Forum for illegally inviting and charging top-dollar to delegates wishing to attend a high-profile business conference that will be attended by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Pretoria today. This comes after a June meeting attended by Mnangagwa, then vice president, which was…
HARARE – The country’s busiest land border at Beitbridge is “saturated” after a computer system outage caused confusion and chaos, with thousands of passengers queuing for hours and trucks stuck at the border crossing between South Africa and Zimbabwe. The other border crossing, Zambia and Zimbabwe’s new one-stop border post, which also handles trucks, is…
HARARE – The fall of long-serving former president Robert Mugabe temporarily united Zimbabweans from all walks of life but weeks after the dust has settled, it’s back to daggers being drawn between the ruling Zanu PF and opposition movements. And at the heart of the renewal of hostilities is the celebrated military intervention which ended…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday suspended four top officials for awarding themselves “fat cat” salaries above government-imposed caps. Acting town clerk Josephine Ncube, health services director Prosper Chonzi, finance director Tendai Kwenda and human capital director Cainos Chingombe were suspended after a special council meeting yesterday called to receive a report by the…
HARARE – Owing to inordinate delays in the appointment of vice presidents, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who leaves for an investors’ meeting in South Africa today, could be forced to appoint a Cabinet minister to act in his absence. Unless the 75-year-old politician, who is also a qualified lawyer, appoints his deputies and swears them into…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has filed a $2 million defamation suit against former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko. The suit pertains to statements made by Mphoko claiming Tsvangirai had participated in the murder of at least 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland during the Gukurahundi era. According to court papers filed on Monday before the…
HARARE – Government has promised to deal decisively with corruption, as it ups the ante in its fight against the scourge that has brought the country to its knees. Delivering his inaugural State-of-the-Nation Address (Sona) since his appointment as the country’s president last month, President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not mince his words yesterday, saying stern…
HARARE – The under-fire Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has pledged to mend its ways in the wake of sharp criticism over its excesses, which could have influenced Executive’s decision to retire long-serving police chief, Augustine Chihuri. Chihuri’s 24-year-long reign as commissioner-general came to a crashing halt this week when President Emmerson Mnangagwa sent him on…
HARARE – Sixteen vendors arrested during a municipal police crackdown appeared in court yesterday. Netsai Maitera, 37, Loriet Chiwandikwa, 42, Rachel Gwenzi, 34, Prince Makoni, 25, Michael Mawamba, 31, Kurai Mupakamiso, 46, and 11 other vendors appeared before Harare magistrate Amanda Muridzo charged with criminal nuisance and disorderly conduct. They were released on $30 bail…
