HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned to work after spending weeks away from his official duties following emergency surgery prompted by a suspected and alleged poison attack at a youth interface rally in Gwanda early this month. Mnangagwa made appearances at his Munhumutapa Offices and New Government Complex on Monday before going home…
HARARE – Cabinet ministers accused of poisoning Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have rubbished the allegations as ludicrous, saying their hands were clean. This comes as one of Mnangagwa’s loyalists, Energy Mutodi, sensationally claimed last week that Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa and Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi, pictured, poisoned the vice president. The businessman-cum…
HARARE – Fewer than one in 10 leaders at Zimbabwe’s top companies are female, Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) research shows. ZGC chairperson Margaret Mukahanana- Sangarwe deplored the lack of progress in promoting women to executive roles. This comes as a study entitled Measuring Differences on Board of Directors in Zimbabwe 2015 highlighted that out of…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has ignored calls to postpone the launch of the party’s alliance in Bulawayo on Saturday — in a move which is likely to worsen cracks in the labour-backed party — whose provincial leadership wants the event postponed indefinitely. Saturday’s MDC Alliance rally follows the launch of an alliance pact…
HARARE – War veterans yesterday accused President Robert Mugabe of “re-writing” history after the 93-year-old stunned Zanu PF supporters on Saturday when he suggested that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa had bad relations with his late predecessor, Simon Muzenda. Mugabe told mourners at the National Heroes Acre, where he was officiating at the burial of Muzenda’s…
HARARE – Car washing in Karoi’s business district will now attract a fine or imprisonment not exceeding six months following a raft of new by-laws enacted by the town council. Karoi municipality is now charging $20 as a release fee for clamped vehicles anywhere in the council-controlled area. The municipality has also warned car owners…
HARARE – Gospel musician and businessman, Elias Musakwa yesterday told the court how a neighbour who is accusing him of making death threats once trespassed onto his property and disconnected a sound system during a wedding ceremony. Musakwa was appearing before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko on charges of contravening section 186 of the Criminal Law…
HARARE – A 19-year-old woman, reportedly raped by lieutenant-colonel Rangarirai Kembo, was turned away by police officers when she first attempted to report the case, a Harare court heard yesterday. This was revealed during the continuation of Kembo’s rape trial yesterday. The victim’s aunt (identification withheld) later assisted her to report the case. Kembo appeared…
HARARE – Government is mulling a reduction in water tariffs to encourage power generation at a $5,7 million mini-hydro power plant bankrolled by financial services group, Old Mutual Zimbabwe in Chipinge District, southeast of Zimbabwe. Energy minister Samuel Undenge said he was in talks with his Environment, Water and Climate counterpart to reduce water tariffs…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF are increasingly getting confident that they can catch the haggling opposition cold by holding an early election. This comes as the opposition is yet to finalise its grand coalition as MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai and the National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru — who are touted…
