HARARE – It never rains but pours for Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Hardly a day after President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, blasted the 74-year-old politician for allegedly fomenting divisions in Zanu PF, the first lady fired another salvo yesterday. In her address to thousands of apostolic church members in Harare, Grace took her…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has fired Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Announcing his dismissal on Monday afternoon, Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said Mnangagwa had been “relieved of his duties because he had become inconsistent in the discharge of his responsibilities”. Read full story in today’s paper.
MUTARE – Combative minister of State for Manicaland Province Mandiitawepi Chimene has warned that she will order the closure of Asian businesses that are refusing to accept plastic money and demanding cash. Speaking on the side-lines of a workshop to discuss Zanu PF’s economic blueprint ZimAsset II and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Chimene had no…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s declaration to ban foreign poll observers is “misplaced” and “perilous”, as the move will put the freeness, fairness and credibility of the forthcoming 2018 elections in question, an independent poll watchdog has warned. Recently, the 93-year-old leader — endorsed as Zanu PF’s presidential candidate — told the Chinese media in…
HARARE – Former vice president Joice Mujuru’s National People’s Party (NPP) is now operating from her Chisipite home after being kicked out of its Avondale offices following the latest fallout within the party. The NPP used to operate from an office in Avondale but it has now been rendered homeless in the wake of an…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has said it is now ready to work with National People’s Party leader Joice Mujuru, claiming President Robert Mugabe was the one who divided them. The ex-liberation fighters played an instrumental role in the campaign to unseat Mujuru as vice president in 2014. While Mujuru, who…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)’s case in which it dragged President Robert Mugabe to the High Court, challenging his decision to fire Prosecutor-General Ray Goba, has been deferred to next Wednesday. In the court application for a declaratory order and consequential relief, ZLHR, cited Mugabe, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and Goba…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe’s interface rally for the various apostolic sects in Zimbabwe has divided the clergy with the various church groups frantically trying to take charge of tomorrow’s function set for Rufaro Stadium in Mbare. The event has widened the rift between the Apostolic Churches Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) and the newly-formed…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe took the gloves off yesterday, threatening to dismiss Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly fomenting factionalism in his deeply-divided Zanu PF party. Mugabe, who all along had been avoiding attacking his aide of more than 50 years by name in the wake of serious infighting that has broken out in…
HARARE – Harare Central Hospital has been left questioning its payment system after it unsuspectingly transferred $4 950 at the order of a forged instruction letter purportedly written by a supplier. The accused, Nicholas Mjanja, was granted $100 bail when he appeared before Harare magistrate Gideon Ruvetsa. It is the State’s case that sometime in…
