HARARE – A chairperson of Parliament’s Transport and Infrastructure committee has warned Austrian firm Geiger International to appear in front of his select committee within days or face the prospect of being held to be guilty of contempt of Parliament. Dexter Nduna said the Geiger officials needed to explain themselves to MPs after failing to…
HARARE – Chitungwiza residents have called on the new Local Government minister July Moyo to urgently dissolve the Madzudzo Pawadyira-led commission. Moyo — who was sworn in on Monday — has been asked to probe the “unsubstantiated” allegations of gross abuse of office and corruption that former minister Saviour Kasukuwere levelled against the town’s dozens…
HARARE – Parliamentarians yesterday castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa for dropping two of his Cabinet ministers barely 48 hours after their appointment. At the weekend, Mnangagwa dropped two men he had originally named to his Cabinet in the face of public opposition: Lazarus Dokora, the very unpopular Primary and Secondary Education minister, whom he had originally…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is yet to move into the residential side of State House as it is undergoing renovations, a top government official has said. Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba told the Daily News yesterday that the State House had been deserted and left to degenerate after former President Robert Mugabe decamped to his…
HARARE – Internet users suffered nearly six hours of downtime yesterday after service providers suffered a major fibre outage. The country is estimated to have lost millions of United States dollars in revenue, as a result, since most of the communication is now being done through the Internet. Liquid Telecom — a unit of Econet…
HARARE – The clampdown against vendors that was supposed to start yesterday under “Operation Restore Legacy” seemed to have failed to kick off as they continued parading their wares on pavements in the Central Business District (CBD). Harare City Council(HCC), Zimbabwe Republic Police and the army had jointly warned vendors over the weekend that they…
HARARE – The two former army chiefs who landed Cabinet appointments last week have promised fireworks in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s new government. In what came as surprise appointments for many, Air Marshal Perrance Shiri of the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) and Zimbabwe National Army Major General Sibusiso Moyo were part of the 22-member Cabinet…
HARARE – The honeymoon is over for President Emmerson Mnangagwa as he is under pressure to put in place significant social, economic and political reforms ahead of next year’s elections to set himself apart from his predecessor, Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa came into power following the resignation of Mugabe, who had been the country’s leader for…
HARARE – The fall of Zimbabwe’s long-serving president, Robert Mugabe, appears to have given hope to sacked former Zanu PF stalwarts who are now retracing their footsteps back to the former liberation movement. There is renewed hope among the former Zanu PF senior officials since the appointment of Emmerson Mnangagwa as first secretary. Barely a…
BULAWAYO – There are growing calls for comprehensive electoral reforms to allow the national elections management body — the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) — to carry its mandate without alleged Executive interference. These calls were repeated in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces at the weekend in the on-going countrywide consultations by the Justice and Parliamentary Affairs…
