HARARE – A Mutare businessman who has been battling to recover his money that was illegally taken by police in 2008 has stepped up his fight to have Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo arrested. Tendai Mangwiro on Monday wrote to the Sherriff and registrar seeking to have Chombo seized for ignoring the court orders compelling…
HARARE – Despite angling to mend relations with President Robert Mugabe and possibly return to Zanu PF, Didymus Mutasa still has a lot to say about the mooted grand coalition. The veteran Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elder has, not for the first time, put his full weight behind MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai in his bid…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has set conditions for his return to the former liberation movement including demanding an apology for the manner in which he was hounded out at the height of the party’s infamous purges in 2014. Mutasa, 82 next week, was jettisoned from the fractious Zanu PF…
HARARE – Government splurged more than $14 million on foreign and domestic travel in the first three months of the year. Figures gleaned from the Consolidated Revenue Fund indicate that while President Robert Mugabe’s administration had budgeted $5 194 000 in travel, it overshoot the budget, spending $12 959 258 on foreign trips in the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s power imports for the first quarter of 2017 went up by about 10 percent as local production slumped 23 percent, a development that local energy experts anticipate to result in load shedding if not properly managed. With a local demand of about 1 400 Megawatts (MW), the country — which has been…
HARARE – Opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP) president Tendai Biti will next week deliver the second edition of the State of the Economy Address (SEA) in Harare. It’s an attempt by the former Finance minister to “assist in finding a lasting solution to the unpalatable suffering of the Zimbabwean people”. This comes as the economy…
BULAWAYO – The infighting over President Robert Mugabe’s succession has widened divisions among the country’s boisterous liberation war fighters, with high-profile war veterans — Tshinga Dube and George Mlala — escalating their tiff this week. Of late, Dube — the War Veterans minister — has been trading tirades with Mlala, who belongs to a faction…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya clocked three years at the helm of the apex bank in March this year. Our Business Editor, John Kachembere, spoke to the central bank chief who is at the cusp of concluding talks with the Afreximbank for a loan facility to back an increase in…
HARARE – National elections management body Zimbabwe Electoral Commisison (Zec) has said the country presently has no law which recognises gender parity but Parliament can legislate for 50-50 representation to achieve the Women’s Affairs committee’s goal of having equal gender representation in the legislature. Addressing the parliamentary portfolio committee on Women Affairs, Gender and Community…
HARARE – Government has proposed 60 years imprisonment for those who are found guilty of raping minors below 12 years of age, and the disabled. In a statement announcing Cabinet’s position on the matter, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Christopher Mushowe said the proposal to amend the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) [Chapter…
