HARARE – Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora is set to be admonished by senators after being accused of being in contempt of Parliament over evidence he gave about schools having to transfer fees into a government account. MDC senator Tholakele Khumalo recommended that senators should “formally admonish” Dokora for giving misleading evidence after…
HARARE – Attempts by Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC to have voter registration centres for Harare and Bulawayo deliberately increased to favour their political party are unacceptable under the Constitution and is an attempt to rig the elections, a Zanu PF legislator has said. This comes after MDC director of elections Murisi Zwizwai complained at a high-level…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it does not intend to conduct a new delimitation of constituencies and wards for the 2018 elections. It will instead conduct the elections on the basis of the constituencies and wards gazetted ahead of the 2008 elections. Legal watchdog Veritas said Zec has run out of time…
MUTARE – Crocked senior council employees are operating syndicates that are siphoning millions of dollars from the cash-strapped council, in one of the most elaborate schemes to emerge from the municipality, which is struggling to provide basic services to its residents. The Eastern News can exclusively report that there exists a well-choreographed corruption ring in…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has struck off Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro’s application for the repeal of the State Liabilities Act, after ruling that High Court judge Edith Mushore erred in referring the case to the highest court in the land. Chief Justice Luke Malaba yesterday said that Mushore had no legal basis…
HARARE – Twelve members of the 14-member gang of armed robbers that reigned terror at mines and business premises before they were busted in August 2015, leading to the recovery of an assortment of artillery, were convicted yesterday. Simbarashe Tavengwa, 37, Ngonidzashe Mutiba, 36, Tinashe Chikara, 49, Titus Chatukuta, 35, Ray Shangari, 35, Tinashe Matinyenya,…
HARARE – Manicaland provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene has flew into a rage over plans to close war veterans’ offices in Mutare in a bid to stop her masquerading as a leader of ex-liberation war fighters. This comes after the High Court barred Chimene from pretending to be the interim or substantive leader of the…
HARARE – War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa has warned Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo that the country’s army will soon descend on him if he does not shut up. This comes after Moyo has cast aspersions on the defence chief Constantino Chiwenga’s PhD from University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, challenging the Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai flew to South Africa on Sunday for medical checkup, and is expected to return home tomorrow. He is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with cancer of the colon. While Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka was not immediately available for comment yesterday, a senior MDC official said he was undergoing “a…
HARARE – Harare was turned into a war zone yesterday as police fought running battles with angry MDC youths who had gathered in the capital to demonstrate against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)’s alleged failure to implement electoral reforms. Yesterday’s trouble started after MDC youths marched to Zec offices, prompting police to try and stop…
