HARARE – Former Cabinet minister and chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) — Christopher Mutsvangwa has warned that the former freedom fighters will not rest until two ministers they accuse of sowing divisions in Zanu PF — Saviour Kasukuwere and Jonathan Moyo are ejected from the party. Mutsvangwa, with the support…
HARARE – Zanu PF has dissociated itself from the terror gangs that have resurfaced in some of the country’s major towns and cities ahead of next year’s elections. The terror groups which claim to be affiliated to the ruling party have gained notoriety for extorting cash from informal and formal traders, as well as terrorising…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe railed against Zanu PF functionaries who are fomenting divisions and plotting to dethrone him from power despite calls for him to continue from the two critical wings of the ruling party, namely the women and youth leagues. With Mugabe, 93, now showing signs of tiring, Zanu PF has been sharply…
HARARE – A Harare City Council (HCC) human resources officer, who reportedly cocked a pistol at a hooker before forcibly taking back the money he had paid her, has claimed the allegations were fabricated by the commercial sex worker after she failed to extort money from him. James Chitsa, 45, who had hired the hooker…
HARARE – A suspected gang of thieves who allegedly sustained a living through selling car parts after stealing vehicles, stripping spares and burning the shells before burying the engine blocks underground to conceal evidence was dragged to court this week. The syndicate — Charles Chakanetsa Dzumbunu, Joseph Nyamadzawo and Thomas Maruve — appeared before Harare…
HARARE – Health minister David Parirenyatwa, millers and industry leaders met this week and resolved to proceed “amicably” with the contentious food fortification exercise. The millers — through the Tafadzwa Musarara-led Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) — have been pleading for a moratorium after government refused to back down on the imposed July 1…
BULAWAYO – Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa has called for the postponement of the 2018 elections claiming the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) was not yet ready to conduct a credible poll. Dabengwa told a news conference here yesterday that the opposition must not be rushed into an election that they will lose. “Zapu’s investigations into the…
HARARE – Primary and Secondary Education deputy minister Paul Mavhima has said schools and parents must continue administering corporal punishment on pupils but employ proportionate disciplinary techniques. This comes after High Court judges have ruled that the use of corporal punishment on children at school and in the home is illegal — though the Constitutional…
HARARE – The MDC has condemned the surge of violence in Harare which saw its car and properties belonging to its senior members being torched in suspected cases of arson by people believed to be from its main rival Zanu PF. On Wednesday, MDC MPs demanded action to be taken on the three incidents which…
HARARE – The family of an eight-year-old boy killed by electrocution after falling into a pit with exposed electrical cables reached a $15 000 settlement with the Zesa Holdings’ subsidiary Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) in a wrongful-death lawsuit. Constance Sinachinga, the 58-year-old mum of the boy, filed summons in the High Court…
