HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC — which has not been spared by the economic meltdown — has hit hard times, casting doubts over its capacity to withstand the well-oiled Zanu PF machinery in the 2018 elections. The country’s biggest opposition party, whose leader is the only one to have beaten President Robert Mugabe in…
HARARE – A United Methodist Church cleric accused of attempting to kill his lover’s husband got away with community service after being convicted of a lesser assault charge. Harare regional magistrate Temba Kuwanda convicted Elliot Chikwenjere after noting that the victim David Gwaradzimba endangered himself by jumping onto the car bonnet. Chikwenjere was slapped with…
HARARE – Scientific evidence shows that blood may have flown off the knife used to stab Mines ministry employee Betty Ranganai and on to the clothes of a man accused of murdering her, a Harare court heard yesterday. A microscopic amount of blood was found by investigators on the clothes of Phillimon Chivangu, 22, of…
HARARE – Zanu PF Harare province has said it is going to mobilise other provinces to support calls by First Lady Grace Mugabe that her ailing husband President Robert Mugabe “anoint” a successor. On Saturday, Grace repeated her calls for Mugabe, 93, to name his heir. Grace had earlier challenged her president husband at a…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is today expected to meet to deliberate on the fate of fraud-accused Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo, following claims by First Lady Grace Mugabe that the minister had no case to answer. Moyo has been under the cosh over the past few months following claims that…
HARARE – The Executive by-passed Parliament in giving fuel excise duty exemption to the controversial Dema Diesel Power Plant, a senior legislator has said. Sakunda, owned by Zanu PF benefactor Kuda Tagwirei, partnered President Robert Mugabe’s in-law Derrick Chikore, brother to Simba, who is married to the president’s daughter Bona, in the dodgy and costly…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe sledged Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa for failing to acknowledge her while chanting the Zanu PF slogan and failing to display party regalia during a women’s league national assembly meeting last Thursday. The party’s new regalia, unveiled at the Masvingo annual conference in December, was designed by Grace…
HARARE – The opposition MDC is close to re-uniting ahead of next year’s elections with leaders of the party’s offshoots, Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti retracing their footsteps back to Morgan Tsvangirai’s labour-backed party. With pressure piling on opposition parties to join forces if they are to entertain hopes of defeating President Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai,…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF will again use its two-thirds parliamentary majority to approve more constitutional amendments giving back wide-sweeping powers to the president, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. The changes come at the expense of MPs’ rights to oversee the government and will undo transitional clauses in a new Constitution adopted…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe must order the arrest of suspected Zanu PF terror gangs that he recently disowned while addressing a rally in Lupane, social and political analysts contend. At the Lupane presidential youth interface rally, Mugabe said: “I hear there are groups that are moving around beating people. No, that is not our…
