HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday stunned many when she turned executor over the estate of wheelchair-bound Dick “Comrade Chinx” Chingaira, allocating his Mabelreign home to his first wife — Patricia. The veteran musician, who is visibly battling deteriorating health, was flanked by his two wives Patricia and Ntombizodwa as the Zimbabwe Music Awards…
HARARE – Harare City Council has begun attaching property of debtors as part of efforts to improve its revenue collection. The attachments come after the local authority contracted debt collectors to recover more than $600 million it is owed by residents, businesses, industry and government departments. A source within council said some residents in Mbare…
BULAWAYO – The Joice Mujuru-led National People’s Party (NPP) has elected 11 representatives for its national executive council and top six Bulawayo provincial executive positions. The election — held over the weekend in Bulawayo — came a month after the first attempt to hold it was aborted following violent scenes. It saw many new faces…
HARARE – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has said government must set up a judicial commission to investigate suspected land barons. Writing on his Twitter account, the former Finance minister said it is time the contentious issue of land barons, which has created town planning nightmares and seen scores of desperate home…
HARARE – War veterans have made the first move to try and mend their relations with President Robert Mugabe after they lavished with praise their former patron for his recent speech at the burial of former ex-combatant and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) assistant director, Zenzo Ntuliki. The war veterans have been feuding with Mugabe since…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has decided to roll-out prepaid water meters to all local authorities, as part of measures to escalate revenue collection. Water minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri said Zinwa will be in charge of the exercise. This comes as most local authorities have been failing to pay Zinwa, with the authority…
HARARE – Suspected Zanu PF supporters are stifling and blocking MDC’s rural campaign by intimidating villagers who dare associate with it, the opposition party spokesperson Obert Gutu has said. The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC recently deployed its urban MPs to the rural constituencies — where the ruling Zanu PF has always received most of its votes…
HARARE – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has warned President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF that he will not accept the results if he loses the eagerly-awaited next year’s elections. The dogged former labour union leader said he was aware that Mugabe was planning to manipulate the results and warned that there will not be a…
HARARE – Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — publishers of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post — has made two key executive appointments. Sharon Samushonga, who was group chief operating officer (COO), becomes managing director with effect from May 1, 2017. Jacob Chisese, who was previously chief executive at…
HARARE – Emotions are running high in the politically volatile province of Masvingo, ahead of this weekend’s re-run of regional Zanu PF elections to choose a substantive provincial chairperson — amid claims that the party faction opposed to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is also mobilising furiously to stop the tension-field election. This comes as supporters…
