HARARE – With President Robert Mugabe set to appoint a deputy chief justice (CJ) any time from now, legal experts say pending court applications challenging the passage of Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 1 will not block the process. In terms of the Constitution that came into effect in 2013, the CJ and his…
HARARE – In 1787 in Britain, news reporters were first officially welcomed into the proceedings of Parliament. And on the first occasion, Edmond Burke (1729 – 1797), an Irish statesman, writer and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the…
HARARE – Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) leader Johannes Ndanga has been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay $45 000 in rent for Pax House. His landlord Paget-Pax Endowment Trust is the applicant, while ACCZ and Ndanga are cited as first and second respondents. According to court papers, the parties entered…
HARARE – The case of two suspects accused of attempting to bomb President Robert Mugabe’s Alpha Omega Dairies has taken a new twist after the duo told the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) that they are members of the Military Intelligence unit. Senior army officials Charles Mashava, the director military intelligence and his deputy Rangarirai Kembo, said…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe exposed his increasing frailty as he struggled to walk to the podium to deliver his speech at the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday. The 93-year-old had to hold onto a chair close to the podium for balance. He walked gingerly at first…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has taken medical leave to recover from a yet-to-be disclosed illness which saw him being airlifted to South Africa last week amid claims that his health had deteriorated. Tsvangirai is suffering from cancer of the colon but it is not clear if the emergency trip to South Africa was…
HARARE – The late vice president Joseph Msika’s widow, Maria, has died. She was 89. Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo confirmed her passing, saying it was a great loss to the nation and to the late vice president’s family. “Sad, sad, very sad indeed,” Khaya Moyo said of her death. “It’s a tragedy to…
HARARE – United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday snubbed President Robert Mugabe as he treated other African leaders to a working lunch on the sidelines of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York. Trump was joined by South African President Jacob Zuma and leaders of Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Namibia,…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must state how data collected during electronic voter registration will be stored amid fears there are inadequate security measures to guard against unauthorised access to the voter register database. “The MDC demands full details, chapter and verse, of the company that is supplying…
HARARE – Surveying of the Harare-Beitbridge highway has started from Skyline to Beatrice under an agreement with the Austrian contractor Geiger International. The highway is Zimbabwe’s busiest and most economically significant, and is part of the North-South Corridor that directly links landlocked Zimbabwe and Zambia with access to the Indian Ocean ports of Durban and…
