HARARE – Recently appointed Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Paul Chimedza has staged a bloodless palace coup by making himself the Zanu PF deputy chair in the volatile Masvingo Province in the wake of a power vacuum occasioned by the purported suspensions of top allies of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the fractious region. Chimedza is…
HARARE – World Food Programme (WFP), government and the Food and Nutrition Council yesterday launched district hunger risk profiles, as about one million people face starvation. District profiling is evidence-based information that helps government and development partners to understand food insecurity and livelihood challenges at the lowest level. WFP country director Eddie Rowe said through…
HARARE – A self-proclaimed prophet has been jailed for 50 years after being found guilty of raping a congregant on four different occasions on the pretext that she will be spiritually-attacked if she failed to comply. Admire Maurukira, 29, of Five Fold Ministries was convicted on four counts of rape in a case that went…
HARARE – The Health ministry has failed to implement projects they had been earmarked to improve the health sector in Zimbabwe, owing to poor resource allocation by Treasury, an official said. Speaking before a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health, Health ministry permanent secretary Gerald Gwinji said money allocated to the ministry remains inadequate to fund…
HARARE – Parliament is making moves to nail MPs who abuse the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) by coming up with a constitution that criminalises the practice. Following the introduction of CDF during the seventh Parliament, there have been reports of rampant abuse of the money by legislators from across the political divide, at the expense…
HARARE – The National Blood Services of Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has said stocks of all blood types are critically low, with two days’ supply only left. If not quickly addressed, the development will worsen the health crisis in Zimbabwe, as most public hospitals are already failing to stock basic drugs like pain killers. NBSZ public affairs…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (Zesn) — an independent polls watchdog — has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to probe allegations of voter intimidation by Zanu PF supporters. This comes amid rising concern over reports that registrants and observers are being intimidated and threatened during…
HARARE – Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba could soon acquire a Harare City Council (HCC) house in Belvedere, as the local authority is considering selling it to him. According to HCC housing committee minutes circulated during a full council meeting, Chinotimba has been renting the house for the past 11 years, after leaving the council’s…
A MYSTERIOUS group of people suspected to be soldiers on a revenge mission, turned Sakubva high density upside down last week, when it randomly assaulted people in the township — hardly two weeks after a soldier and footballer was attacked by a machete in the township. The army disowned the group while police spokesperson Charity…
HARARE – An alleged Russian national accused of using fake documents to apply for a Zimbabwean passport is facing re-trial after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday struck off the roll his application in which he is challenging the re-opening of the State case. Steven Paul Sugden — through his lawyers Thabani Mpofu, Admire Rubaya and…
