HARARE – President Robert Mugabe must match his Pan African rhetoric by providing food, jobs, schools, housing and healthcare that are still so sorely lacking in his country, academics and the opposition have said. Pan-Africanism, including even a “United States of Africa”, has been a rallying cry since the continent started to shake off its…
HARARE – Suspected Zanu PF youths stabbed and critically injured an MDC supporter in Chiwundura last week, a faith-based rights group said, continuing a wave of attacks in the run-up to the July 15 by-election. The National Assembly seat fell vacant following the death of Kizito Chivamba last month. The by-election has seen the worst…
HARARE – Ahead of next year elections, Zimbabwe’s opposition finds itself worried sick that the country’s feared secret police have infiltrated their ranks. This follows stunning developments earlier last week when former security advisor to then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office during the stability-inducing GNU, Pearson Mbalekwa, won Zanu PF primary elections for the Chiwundura…
HARARE – Southern African leaders must keep an eye on Zimbabwe as it draws up a road-map for general elections in 2018, amid high tension and possible chaos over President Robert Mugabe’s likely successor amid stalled electoral reforms, analysts have warned. The 15-nation Southern African Development Community (Sadc) must put Zimbabwe on the front burner…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has increased mandatory petrol blending from five percent to 10 percent due to increasing supplies of ethanol. This comes after government in March reduced to five percent from 15 percent the mandatory amount of local ethanol to be blended with petrol as President Robert Mugabe’s cash-squeezed government sought to reduce its fuel…
HARARE – The battle for the much anticipated next year’s election is gathering steam with a local social movement, #IAMZIMBABWE, becoming the latest group to crank the heat on President Robert Mugabe and his government to pave way for the holding of free and fair elections. The social movement has begun collecting signatures for a…
HARARE – Analysts say with the make-or-break 2018 national elections around the corner — coupled with the warring ruling Zanu PF continuing with its destructive policies of the past 37 years — there is little prospect that the dying local economy will turn around anytime soon. At the same time, concerned Zanu PF insiders told…
HARARE – An alarming picture has emerged of an escalating cocaine problem in Zimbabwe and the government’s inadequate response to the situation. There is a distinct lack of treatment services available across the board and there are not enough specialists specifically assigned to battle the emerging crisis. Police have busted at least two cocaine smugglers…
HARARE – Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has slammed President Robert Mugabe, labelling the 93-year-old as the “king” and “Pope of all African dictators who just but created a crisis that needs dynamic leadership to deal with”. The former Finance minister told his supporters in Bulawayo at an Africa Day commemoration event…
HARARE – A 48-year-old Harare man has been dragged to court for allegedly bashing his wife to death after she refused to leave a shebeen following a drinking binge. Black Zondiwa Mayowa, of Marimba, appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Chimboza charged with murder. He was remanded in custody to June 9 and advised to apply…
