HARARE – Walter Mzembi was the last Foreign Affairs minister to serve under former president Robert Mugabe. Although his tenure was brief, for it was during his stint that the Mugabe’s regime fell, it was an event-packed period that has not been recorded. Our News Editor Gift Phiri had an opportunity to hear these events…
HARARE – If there was someone queer enough to apply to Guinness Book of World Records to have the title “shortest lived government ministers” added to their database, the category will certainly not be short of takers. Among the frontrunners would be South Africa’s former Finance minister Des van Rooyen who was reshuffled after three…
HARARE – Mutare businessman, Tendai Blessing Mangwiro, who has been fighting to recover over $1,5 million seized by police in 2008, has written a letter to Attorney-General of Zimbabwe (AG) Prince Machaya, complaining about the State’s position challenging his bid to garnish police accounts. A few months ago, Mangwiro approached the High Court seeking the…
GWERU – Gweru residents have called for the criminalisation of politicians who are misleading prospective voters in next year’s elections by telling them that pictures taken during the ongoing BVR exercise will be used to trace their vote. Speaking during a Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs portfolio committee public hearing to gather people’s views on…
HARARE – A massive joint army, police and council blitz under Operation Restore Legacy will today ignite a possible confrontation with vendors and illegal foreign currency dealers who have trickled back into Harare’s CBD. The message was delivered jointly by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and Harare Municipal police who spent…
HARARE – The case of a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, who is accused of extorting $15 000 from a local businessman has taken a new twist after one of the State witnesses, a police inspector, told the court that he was forced to nail the suspect, failure of which he was to…
HARARE – Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko who arrived in the country on Friday through Plumtree Border Post amid reports that he might have been detained upon his entry in the country from Botswana. Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, alleged yesterday that Mphoko had been handed…
HARARE – The ongoing trial of former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo on corruption and fraud charges is likely to open a can of worms as it continues to suck in more and more people every week. Chombo was arrested recently following the seizure of government by the army, which claimed to be targeting criminal elements…
HARARE – Former Finance minister, Ignatius Chombo, wrote to President Emmerson Mnangagwa two days after he had been sworn into office offering to work for him in any capacity. In a passionate congratulatory message to Mnangagwa, Chombo wrote from his hospital bed pledging he would be unwaveringly loyal to Mnangagwa in the same way he…
HARARE – As external support for health programmes in Zimbabwe continues to shrink, the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) has bowed out from another strategic programme which was contributing much towards maternal health. In 2014, USAid and the Health and Child Care ministry had partnered in a programme dubbed the Maternal and Child…
