HARARE – The High Court has dismissed Mutasa Central MDC MP Trevor Saruwaka’s application challenging his ejectment from the National Assembly last October for wearing a jacket with the country’s flag colours. In the application, Saruwaka cited speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and the chief security officer of the Parliament of Zimbabwe as…
HARARE – The High Court has handed down a final order, barring Manicaland provincial governor Mandiitawepi Chimene from interfering with the operations of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) and declared Christopher Mutsvangwa the bona fide leader of the organisation. High Court judge Jester Charewa delivered the ruling yesterday. The current litigation came…
MUTARE – Outspoken Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister — Mandiitawepi Chimene — has revealed that she feared losing her job during President Robert Mugabe’s recent Cabinet reshuffle due to the rampant smuggling of second hand clothes coming through her province. The forthright Chimene also said government needed to do more for the Small to Medium Enterprises…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa Police minister Fikile Mbalula has blamed immigrant Zimbabweans for the surge in theft and violent deaths of white farmers. “It’s true that there are criminals who are stealing from farms, undermining farmers work and that,” Mbalula told SABC on Tuesday. “But equally there are farmers, who are wrong, because they employ…
HARARE – The high-profile price hikes of medication have raised the ire of rights doctors. Evans Spanton, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights, said a lot of Zimbabweans are on chronic medication and this development will significantly reduce quality of life and life expectancy in general, as well as infringe…
HARARE – Opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) has split again after party elders withdrew their support from interim president Agrippa Mutambara. This comes after former Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti jumped ship from the Mutambara-led party to join hands with Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo. The group has issued a no-confidence vote on Mutambara,…
HARARE – Suspended Mashonaland Holdings (Mash) boss Manfred Mahari was yesterday acquitted on charges of violating a court order after failing to pay child support on time and in the correct amount. Mahari had accrued arrears of $31 000. Harare magistrate Annia Ndiraya noted that Mahari entered an agreement with his estranged wife Moyra to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s manufacturers have been squeezed harder by the deteriorating economy, with the sector retrenching and cutting working hours on the back of decreased capacity utilisation, the latest Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI)’s survey has revealed. This comes as the struggling companies’ woes have recently been escalated by the deepening foreign currency crisis, which…
HARARE – Harare City Council wants to introduce a typhoid vaccine in a bid to prevent infections in Zimbabwe’s capital. Health services director Prosper Chonzi said council had been dispensing the vaccine to some of its employees but now want to roll it out to the rest of the city. This comes as health officials…
HARARE – Zanu PF heavyweights will be descending on Bulawayo today to announce the date for President Robert Mugabe’s ninth presidential youth interface rally. Zanu PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga said the party leadership is surprised at the support that the rallies have garnered so far from the youths. “The province told us that they…
