HARARE – Cabinet ministers who have gained notoriety for absconding Parliament will not be punished despite Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda’s threats. In February Mudenda read the riot act in the National Assembly threatening to write to President Robert Mugabe urging him to reprimand errant Cabinet ministers who were absconding grilling by legislators…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has begun the process of accrediting civic organisations that it will collaborate with when it rolls out its voter education campaign ahead of the eagerly-anticipated next year’s elections. This comes as there were growing concerns among the civic society organisations (CSOs) that the national elections management body was…
HARARE – Teachers and government are headed for a showdown over the proposed Teachers Professional Council (TPC) which the educators fear is intended to kill trade unionism among their huge membership. However, Primary and Secondary Education ministry has allayed those fears maintaining that it is continuing with wider consultations with the teachers. Progressive Teachers Union…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s first Speaker of the National Assembly Didymus Mutasa who held many Cabinet posts before he was fired from Zanu PF in 2015, at the height of the party’s infamous purges, has hit hard times as he is struggling to send his children to school and servicing huge debts including $70 000 owed…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s opposition political party leaders must breakdown the Zanu PF mould of conceiving power which is centralised in the presidency as this makes the post very much coveted, social and political analysts’ content. The comments arise from the bickering and jostling among opposition political parties on who should lead the mooted grand coalition….
HARARE – Activist Patson Dzamara has filed an appeal against his sentence and conviction over an obstruction of justice charge. Dzamara and his accomplice Makomborero Haruzivishe were sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande before three months were suspended on condition of good behaviour. The remaining nine months were set aside on…
HARARE – As the economy continues to bite the dust, more and more children in and around Harare are being forced to beg from motorists at road intersections. Some of the children will be carrying family siblings on their back as they dangerously move, bowel in hand, between moving vehicles. At the traffic lights by…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party cannot afford to expel more of its members ahead of the crucial 2018 elections, as this will lead to a costly implosion, analysts have said. This comes after calls from war veterans and some sections of the party for the expulsion of Higher and Tertiary Education minister…
HARARE – Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) is suffering a myriad problems — decreased membership, legal battles and a general lack of confidence in the society’s card. On its end, its debtors are also not remitting payments, resulting in the society being owed over $120 million, with a huge chunk of it being owed…
HARARE – Women have expressed mixed feelings over a recent High Court judgment which awarded damages to a woman who was suing her hubby’s “small house” for adultery. High Court judge Judith Mushore awarded $8 000 in damages to Corah Mahachi, 70, who was suing her hubby Taurayi Mungate’s small house Pamela Farai Zimba for…
