HARARE – Scrapping of government’s imports ban policy — Statutory Instrument (SI) 64 — is long overdue, as the measure was “ill-advised and never the solution” for Zimbabwe’s deepening economic crisis, economists and industry players said. This comes amid flip-flop in government’s position on the policy — which escalates long-standing concerns on lack of clarity…
HARARE – The MDC has embarked on aggressive campaign to woo Zimbabwe’s seemingly disinterested youths to register and vote in next year’s national elections which opposition parties plan to contest as a coalition. This comes as the country is gearing for the watershed polls with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) conducting campaigns to educate ordinary…
HARARE – Firebrand MDC secretary for mobilisation, Job Sikhala, has promised President Robert Mugabe and his warring ruling Zanu PF an even bigger hiding in next year’s watershed polls than the shellacking they received in the hotly-disputed 2008 elections. Sikhala’s warning comes as opposition leader and MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has signed memoranda of understanding…
HARARE – War veterans say the end is “definitely nigh” for the Zanu PF faction which is rabidly opposed to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding President Robert Mugabe — which goes by the moniker Generation 40 (G40). At the same time, the disgruntled former freedom fighters also claim they have now buried the hatchet with…
HARARE – As much as he is outspoken and daring to the point of poking the country’s feared authorities in the eye, activist cleric Patrick Mugadza is a lonely man who appears at his routine court hearings with no one to lend him any support, no family, no friend, or the evergreen civil society. While…
HARARE – Stripped of their executive powers, mayors in Zimbabwe are mere lame ducks and can only but watch as the powerful Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere meddle in their affairs replacing elected officials with commissions. And ahead of next year elections events in most councils are now following a familiar script, sparking fresh debate…
HARARE – Growing a full thick beard is no overnight experience, Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora will tell you that. But nursing facial fur until it becomes fully blown requires a certain degree of patience. It’s a kind of tolerance that has become the character of Dokora who has endured an avalanche of…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru, who now leads the fledgling National People Party (NPP), yesterday said the opposition parties will hold primary elections to choose who will lead the planned grand coalition set to contest President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF in next year’s polls. Mujuru and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai last month…
HARARE – Future Zimbabwean governments should exhume undeserving persons buried at the National Heroes Acre to pave way for the likes of Simpson Mutambanengwe who was denied the honour by Zanu PF, former ruling party spokesperson and liberation war icon Rugare Gumbo has said. Mutambanengwe — one of the pioneers of the liberation struggle —…
HARARE – Cleric Noah Pashapa yesterday became one of the few prominent local clergymen to repeat his open questioning of the claimed powers of Zimbabwe’s ubiquitous, self-styled prophets. His criticism comes after flamboyant preacher and founder of the Spirit Embassy church, Uebert Angel, was recently denied entry into Zambia. The charismatic Angel and his entourage…
