HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police has warned of a sharp increase in muggings around the Second Street and Churchill Avenue area in Harare. ZRP Avondale Police Station said in a notice: “We advise all citizens, residents, pedestrians and or motorists passing through Second Street and Churchill right up to Teviotdale Road and Churchill, all…
HARARE – Chief Fortune Charumbira, the president of the Chiefs’ Council, has called upon chiefs to campaign for President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party to ensure he wins the forthcoming election. Charumbira told the official opening of the 2017 edition of the National Annual Conference of chiefs held in Bulawayo on Saturday that…
HARARE – In an unprecedented move, President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF held an extraordinary politburo meeting at the State House — fooling a number of journalists and officials from the Information ministry in the process — who waited in vain at the party’s headquarters where such meetings are usually held. In a notice to…
HARARE – A fiscal disaster is looming as President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF government is on a spending spree ahead of 2018 elections, often funded through recourse to expensive debt. The reckless and carefree expenditure — amid a widening budget deficit and waning national revenue collections — could sink the already suffocating nation deeper into…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s strongholds — Midlands and Masvingo provinces — convened emergency meetings yesterday and annulled the suspensions of its top provincial executives by Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, setting the stage for what could be more infighting ahead of the party’s special congress in December. Kasukuwere last week sanctioned the…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s strongholds — Midlands and Masvingo provinces — convened emergency meetings yesterday and annulled the suspensions of its top provincial executives by Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, setting the stage for what could be more infighting ahead of the party’s special congress in December. Kasukuwere last week sanctioned the…
HARARE – Principals of the MDC Alliance have thrown their full weight behind MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai despite his ill-health. Tsvangirai has openly disclosed that he has cancer of the colon and has been undergoing treatment in neighboring South Africa. Last month, he was airlifted to South Africa after he had fallen critically ill, spending…
HARARE – Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni is headed for another showdown with Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere after he wrote to the Local Government Board (LGB) protesting against the minister’s decision to block the appointment of Hatfield MDC legislator Tapiwa Mashakada to the position of town clerk. Kasukuwere has said Mashakada was unacceptable as town…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe must not stand as vice president at Zanu PF’s extraordinary congress in December, a move veteran political analyst and civil society leader Brian Kagoro described as a potential “titanic political error.” Grace has not announced any plans to run in the vote scheduled for December, but has made several…
HARARE – Popular American online social media and networking service, Facebook — has assured its Zimbabwean network users that it will not share their private communication with President Robert Mugabe’s government — even if there is such a request as at it takes their privacy seriously. The assurance comes as media groups, civic society and…
