HARARE – A Harare court has granted a stay of community sentence for pro-democracy campaigner Linda Masarira while considering whether the High Court will hear her appeal after her conviction and sentence for participating in an anti-government protest last year. In a May 5 court ruling, Mbare magistrate Stanford Mambanje said Masarira can be free…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has confessed to giving the late retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku unconstitutional Executive orders to okay the seizure of white-owned farms. Commenting on the tenure of Chidyausiku — who has been declared a national hero and is set to be interred at the national Heroes Acre on Saturday — Mugabe…
HARARE – In yet another dose of bad news for long-suffering Zimbabweans, a local firm has warned that the country’s inflation will continue to rise, resulting in rising food prices as manufacturing companies turn to the thriving black market for their foreign exchange needs to import raw materials. This comes as Zimbabwe is grappling with…
HARARE – Riled by the country’s worsening economic rot, disgruntled war veterans have renewed their attacks on President Robert Mugabe — saying the suffering and chaos now being witnessed in the country is not what they fought for during the liberation struggle. And contrary to recent State media claims that they had been gagged, the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF have declared the late former long-serving Chief Justice, Godfrey Chidyausiku, a national hero. Chidyausiku died in a South African hospital last Wednesday where he was receiving medical attention for liver and kidney-related problems. He left the bench at the end of February after he reached the mandatory…
HARARE – The Zanu PF faction which is rabidly opposed to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding President Robert Mugabe is fighting to have the result of the party’s Masvingo leadership election at the weekend nullified, after its candidate boycotted the poll. This comes as the contestant who quit the poll at the last minute, Mutero…
HARARE – Despite authorities injecting more bond notes into the market and increasing their weekly importation of United States dollars by 50 percent, the government is dismally failing to stem the country’s severe cash shortages which have seen desperate Zimbabweans besieging overstretched banks as they despairingly try to withdraw their money. This comes as banks…
HARARE – Chinese nationals with businesses in the country are in the habit of ill-treating and abusing their employees, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa said last week. Speaking at the commemorations for World Day for Safety and Health, Mutasa said complaints against the Chinese in Zimbabwe were increasing every day. Our…
HARARE – Police should stop using heavy-handed methods when dealing with Zimbabweans who would be peacefully demanding their dues such as was the case with tobacco farmers last week, Heal Zimbabwe (HZT) has said. In a statement, the peace building organisation said the way police beat up and tear-gassed farmers who were demonstrating at the…
CHIPINGE – Over 500 Rwandan refugees who are facing repatriation to their country could flee Tongogara Refugee Camp (TRC) if government fails to address their plea for local integration. TRC administrator Meshack Zengeya said the predominantly Hutu refugees fled their country in fear of revenge killings after their ethnic group presided over a brutal genocide…
