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 – Liquidator of the collapsed Allied Bank, Cecil Madondo, who is being sued by one of the creditors seeking to recover money locked in the financial institution, has said the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) must provide answers to the bank’s creditors. Zimbabwe Amalgamated Housing Association (Zaha) is seeking to recover nearly $1,5 million locked…
From industrial to church hub ONCE regarded as the country’s industrial hub, Zimbabwe’s second largest city has suffered what probably ranks as the worst job carnage, occasioned by the deteriorating economic situation that has led to seismic company closures, with churches now occupying buildings that used to be a hive of industrial activity. The city…
HARARE – Chinese diamond mining firm Anjin Investments (Anjin), which was booted out of the Marange mining fields last year, has approached the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) demanding reinstatement. The application was made after Mines minister Walter Chidakwa ordered diamond mining firms to stop operations in February last year and leave the Marange fields as their…
HARARE – National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru is caught between joining a conglomeration of smaller parties under Coalition of Democrats (Code) or concentrate on covering ground under a pact signed with MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai. Mujuru’s spokesperson Gift Nyandoro said the NPP was still consulting, insisting she was committed to “collective leadership”. “The…
HARARE – Prominent tycoon John Bredenkamp is set to lose a high-end vehicle due to his long standing $3, 8 million debt to his former friend and businessman Yakub Ibrahim Mohammed. Bredenkamp was in 2016 ordered by the High Court to pay back the cash he borrowed from Mohammed between 2000 and 2001 by judge…
HARARE – Forrmer Cabinet minister and leader of the smaller MDC Welshman Ncube has hinted on his preferred choice for the mooted grand coalition — telling the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was fit to represent Zimbabwe’s opposition in next year’s watershed elections. Ncube ended 12 years of frosty relations…
HARARE – Police yesterday said they had not cleared today’s planned demonstration by MDC youths — setting up a potentially explosive confrontation with the organisers who said they will resist any attempts to stop them from holding their protest march. “I don’t know about the demonstration, we never cleared it,” police spokesperson senior assistant commissioner…
HARARE – Notwithstanding the rumpus in their camp over the lack of progress in consummating a coalition, opposition parties have said they are prepared for next year’s synchronised polls, even if President Robert Mugabe is to proclaim election dates earlier than expected. Mugabe is expected to proclaim election dates much earlier than had been expected…
HARARE – One of the country’s decorated liberation war icons, retired Air Vice Marshal Henry Muchena, is entangled in an acrimonious divorce with his wife of 31 years, who is claiming in court papers that the ex-Zanla fighter has abandoned his family and moved in with a “mistress” who used to be his subordinate while…
