HARARE – Fireworks are expected when the warring ruling Zanu PF’s politburo meets in Harare today — to deal with last month’s hotly-contested party election results in Masvingo, as well as the ugly infighting which is ripping apart provincial youth structures in the capital and in Bulawayo. Well-placed party sources who spoke to the Daily…
HARARE – Former Finance minister and now leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Tendai Biti, has made an impassioned plea to MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai to move decisively on the mooted grand opposition alliance — warning that any further dithering on the matter could gift Zanu PF victory in next year’s make-or-break national polls….
HARARE – Prominent human rights lawyer Obey Shava has said he suspects an “evil hand” is behind the clerk of court’s denial to accept cleric Phillip Mugadza’s bail money last Friday. The clerk claimed he wanted to first verify the authenticity of the High Court order. Mugadza — arrested after allegedly prophesying that President Robert…
HARARE – Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo — one of the fiercest critics of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa — is being groomed by the Generation 40 (G40) faction to become the next Zanu PF leader, war veterans’ leader Chris Mutsvangwa has claimed. Mutsvangwa, chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), said Moyo…
HARARE – Rape at the hands of relatives and lack of sex education are the major driving factors of teen pregnancies according to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). More than 700 girls aged between 10 and 19, and some as young as nine fall pregnant every year, said the UN agency. Teen…
MUTARE – Parliament is probing a law firm over possible illegal conduct after Mutare City Council (MCC) officials claimed it solicited for a debt collection contract — a violation of the Legal Practitioners’ Act. The august House’s Public Accounts Committee has requested a detailed account of how the firm — Mangwana and Associates (M&A) –…
HARARE – Gokwe-Nembudziya Zanu PF MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena has sensationally claimed that some ministers in President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet are corrupt, labelling them “shameless thieves”. This comes after the just-turned 93 years leader recently said no corruption evidence had been tendered against any of his officials. Wadyajena made the claims while responding to Progressive…
HARARE – There was much disappointment among many Zimbabweans when it emerged at the weekend that President Robert Mugabe had donated — of all things — biscuits and non-essential snacks to Cyclone Dineo victims in Tsholotsho who recently lost everything they had to floods. Mugabe’s eye-brow raising gifts came into the public domain after Higher Education…
HARARE – MDC youths are threatening to disrupt next year’s general elections if the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) decides to go ahead with the polls without instituting far-reaching electoral reforms to level the electoral playfield that they allege favours Zanu PF’s favour. For the past two years, the MDC along with other political parties coalescing…
HARARE – A Manicaland-based Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer is set to lose a substantial amount of his salary after it was garnished by the court to pay a victim that he brutally tortured over two years ago. According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), which represented the victim, who was an ‘‘A’’…
