HARARE – High Court judge Hlekani Mwayera yesterday granted MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka’s application for an amendment of his claim into United States dollars. Tamborinyoka — demanding $200 000 compensation from the State after he was allegedly brutally attacked by Harare Central Police Station-based cops in 2007 — seeks to have police…
HARARE – The High Court has given the government-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) an ultimatum to comply with an order stopping it from looting Grandwell Holdings (Grandwell)’s mining ore in the Chiadzwa mining fields. This comes after Grandwell, which owns 50 percent shareholding in Mbada Diamonds (Mbada), rushed back to court with an urgent…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s State prosecutor has dropped fraud charges against Genius Kadungure, in a new twist to the R1,5 million scam that had rattled the South Africa-based businessman. The self-styled cooking gas tycoon was due to return to court this week for allegedly swindling Chegutu West Zanu PF legislator, Dexter Nduna, and a Kadoma-based miner,…
HARARE – The Meteorological Services Department (Met) has warned of a harsh and biting winter this year. In a forecast yesterday, meteorologist Chenai Sithole advised that those travelling must be weather alert in order to protect themselves from vagaries of the weather. “Mornings and evenings will be much colder,” she said. “Temperatures in all provinces…
HARARE – Zanu PF women’s league has said it holds no grudge against the party’s beleaguered national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. The powerful wing, which is led by President Robert Mugabe’s influential wife, Grace, has broken ranks with other branches of the fractured Zanu PF party, which is currently divided along tribal and factional lines….
BINDURA – A deadly cocktail of tension and chaos reigned at yesterday’s Zanu PF Mashonaland Central provincial meeting, as rival factions jockeyed for the attention of a high-level team that was dispatched here to look into grievances against the party’s embattled national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere. The definitive outcome of the marathon meeting, which took…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says Zanu PF has launched a terror campaign in the volatile Mashonaland East province, threatening villagers against attending meetings and sharing their horror experiences of the violent 2008 polls. This comes just weeks after Tsvangirai visited the province, where he was canvassing support for the planned grand opposition…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s deadly but fluid politics is witnessing yet another dramatic realignment of forces, with the warring former liberation movement now said to be courting youth leaders who were expelled two years ago on fuzzy charges of undermining President Robert Mugabe and his powerful wife Grace. This comes as national political commissar Saviour…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has nominated Gift Shoko for a Senate position for Bulawayo Province. The nomination will now be forwarded for confirmation by the legislature, if no objections are noted by the chief elections officer within 14 days. This comes after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) announced the vacancy in the Senate,…
HARARE – Lawmakers will resume debate on the proposed Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 1) Bill on May 2, despite President Robert Mugabe appointing Luke Malaba as Chief Justice (CJ). The proposed Bill — seeking to give the president powers to singularly appoint the CJ — underwent first reading in the National Assembly on April…
