MUTARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has received a major boost for his 2018 election campaign after Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) spokesperson Pishayai Muchauraya dumped the Elton Mangoma-led party to rejoin the former. Muchauraya — who left MDC in 2014 — was officially received back to the MDC at a Bereka mwana rally in…
HARARE – A convicted gang of heavily-armed robbers who terrorised business premises and mines before being busted at their Darwendale farm hideout will answer to 11 fresh counts in the Bulawayo Magistrate’s Court. This was announced by prosecutor Michael Reza, who managed to sustain convictions on eight counts ranging from armed robbery, possession of firearms…
HARARE – As we hurtle towards the 2018 elections the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) — a grassroots-based organisation with membership across the country’s 10 provinces — has raised the red flag, with reports from its monitors on the ground suggesting strong indicators of political violence in communities. Our assistant editor, Maxwell Sibanda, caught up…
HARARE – Fifteen lawyers are under scrutiny for misconduct following applications that were filed with Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ), with one having been deregistered this year. LSZ president, Misheck Hogwe, who has also been nominated for the Prosecutor-General’s post — said they were yet to look into the applications before concluding the fate of…
HARARE – Our chief writer Fungi Kwaramba sat down with respected University of Zimbabwe Political Science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, to unpack the thorny succession issue in Zanu PF, which has caused discord in the ruling party, and also talk about prospects of the opposition coalition involving National People’s Party leader Joice Mujuru and Morgan Tsvangirai’s…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s mid-term fiscal policy review is “empty” and an “insult” to long-suffering Zimbabweans, which proves an admission of leadership failure, opposition parties said. Presenting his half year fiscal review in Parliament last week, the Treasury chief highlighted that government’s expenditure on foreign trips and salaries for the bloated civil service…
HARARE – A United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund report has indicated that 55 percent of new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa — including Zimbabwe — are among children, adolescents and women. The trend has been described as worrisome by experts, who said communities and government need to do more to reduce the incidences, especially…
BULAWAYO – Controversial former leader of Chipangano, an alleged Zanu PF terror group, Jim Kunaka, has waded into the ruling party’s succession matrix, dismissing suggestions that President Robert Mugabe must name his successor. This comes as the succession debate is heating up, with some war veterans recently calling for Mugabe to address the issue, which…
HARARE – Malaria continues to wreak havoc in Zimbabwe, with the Health ministry recording an increase in new cases of the deadly disease. The country has continued to record an increase in Malaria cases, with over 89 000 infections and 151 deaths recorded in the first nine weeks of 2017, the ministry revealed. This has…
HARARE – After the voter apathy which marred the recent Chiwundura by-election, analysts have said electoral reforms are the only way to increase voter interest in 2018 elections. In the by-election, a large number of people refrained from casting ballots, with the voter turnout rate at 22 percent. Zanu PF’s Brown Ndlovu polled 9 426…
