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 – An elite crime-busting unit run by government is going after flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo over a string of energy deals entered with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) — a unit of Zesa Holdings. Controversy around the mega deals between ZPC and Intratrek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited — a company owned by Chivayo — is…
BULAWAYO – The move by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to suspend litigation against defaulting residents has set city fathers and management on a collision course. While the move brought relief to scores of residents, who were being harassed by debt collectors, the local authority’s management is totally against it. In July this year, BCC resolved…
BULAWAYO – The MDC Alliance is calling for all opposition parties in Zimbabwe to bury their differences in order to fight Zanu PF as a single force, noting that the military’s intervention in the ruling party’s internal affairs has obliterated the divisions that had greatly contributed to the governing party’s misfortunes. Addressing a rally during…
HARARE – Government has established a mental health tribunal to assess the continued incarceration of mentally challenged patients in prisons. Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa set up a nine-member Mental Health Review Tribunal on Monday to assess the continued detention of both civilly committed and forensic patients in the mental health system. [GoogleAd]…
