HARARE – Zimbabwean authorities have generated outrage after increasing spot fines by up to 100 percent to try to deter road carnage, to the bemusement and anger of many motorists. Motorists demanded a rollback of that increase to make sure spot fines remain affordable. This comes as Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has just slapped suffering…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government is going for broke — slapping long-suffering poor Zimbabweans with a raft of new taxes in its desperate efforts to raise revenue to meet its obligations, including paying its restive workers on time. So financially distressed has the government become, that last week alone it introduced a number…
HARARE- Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo’s has withdrawn his Supreme Court appeal in which he challenged his conviction on contempt of court. Chombo was slapped with a 90-day jail term after being found guilty following his failure to action a court order directing him to facilitate the release of $78 900 confiscated from Mutare businessman…
HARARE – War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube was on Wednesday accused of falling asleep while the National Assembly discussed the use of spikes by police to deflate vehicle tyres in an attempt to stop motorists alleged to have committed traffic offences. Tshinga Dube, the Zanu PF MP for Makokoba, appeared to doze off on Wednesday afternoon…
HARARE – Villagers due to be evicted from Arnold Farm in Mazowe won an 11th-hour reprieve on Thursday after being granted an emergency injunction by the High Court restraining authorities from clearing their structures on the site. The farmers are being evicted from Arnold Farm to pave way for First Lady Grace Mugabe’s takeover. High…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government has imposed a new 10 percent tax on tobacco sales, prompting angry farmers to threaten to withhold their crops for the current marketing season. This comes as impoverished Zimbabweans are reeling from a wave of other additional taxes that the government has recently imposed on them, including the…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s newly-launched National People’s Party (NPP) is struggling to get out of first gear — this coming hardly a month after she left the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party under a cloud, following her nasty public fallout with its founding fathers. But just as Mujuru was beginning to think…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao has hailed the appointment of Justice Luke Malaba from public interviews conducted to fill the vacant post of Chief Justice, reflecting his uncle’s reduced authority under a constitution adopted three years ago. Under the old Constitution repealed in 2013, Mugabe had singular authority to pick the head…
HARARE – The State has roped in President Robert Mugabe’s allies and sympathisers to nail activist clergyman Philip Mugadza who was nabbed for prophesying that the 93-year-old leader will die in October this year. The called in witnesses include Chief Negomo, Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) president and fierce pro-Zanu PF archbishop Johannes Ndanga,…
HARARE – The National Assembly has unanimously applauded President Robert Mugabe’s appointment of Luke Malaba as the new Chief Justice (CJ), with lawmakers across the political divide describing him as a jurist with a consistent record of fidelity to the Constitution, along with wisdom, integrity, self-restraint and a strong dose of humility. Malaba, 65, assumed…
