HARARE – Former vice president and interim leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) Joice Mujuru has said fellow women were at the forefront orchestrating her dismissal from the ruling Zanu PF. In a speech she delivered during the commemoration of the United Nations International Women’s Day at the London School of Economics on Tuesday, the…
HARARE – The War Veterans’ ministry has bemoaned the repossession of idle land parcelled out to the ex-freedom fighters under the violent land reform programme. In a statement, the Tshinga Dube-led ministry called on all ex-combatants who had lost land under the repossession exercise to approach his ministry’s provincial offices to get their names and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court (Con-Court) is grappling with a legal vacuum because it does not have a quorum of at least nine judges, as required by the Constitution, to hear a contentious challenge to the selection process of a new Chief Justice (CJ). The crisis was precipitated by University of Zimbabwe law student Romeo…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elders — Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo — have slapped former ally Joice Mujuru with a $5 million suit following her claims that the duo wanted to bed her. The two had demanded that the newly-formed National People’s Party leader retracts her statements and publicly apologises or they sue,…
HARARE – Thousands of newly-born babies face significant health risks after it emerged that the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which prevents infants from contracting tuberculosis (TB), is now also in short supply. Although authorities denied yesterday that there was a major BCG crisis in the country, so dire is the situation that some public hospitals…
HARARE – Disgruntled war veterans were weighing up their options last night after panicking authorities banned their planned get-together in Harare tomorrow — a move they say is meant to pressure them to ditch their withering criticism of President Robert Mugabe as Zanu PF’s ugly succession wars intensify. This comes after police revealed yesterday that…
HARARE – Government has reduced mandatory petrol blending from 15 percent to five percent due to ethanol shortages. Authorities imposed mandatory blending, which was increased to 15 percent from 10 percent in 2015, in a move targeted at reducing the country’s fuel import bill — around $45 million per month. Energy minister Samuel Undenge said…
HARARE – A day after President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government reached a compromise with angry civil servants over their outstanding 2016 bonuses, the State is facing a fresh headache after rural teachers threatened to strike over the decision to pay soldiers their 13th cheque ahead of other government workers. In the bonus agreement reached on…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe’s clueless government continues to blow billions of “fictional” dollars that it does not have — on trinkets and its bloated workforce — experts have issued a fresh warning that the country is heading for an economic disaster of epic proportions, akin to the 2008 meltdown. This comes as President Robert Mugabe’s…
BULAWAYO – Poor management, corruption and politicking are the major drivers of food insecurity in Zimbabwe, a think-tank — Centre for Public Engagement (CPE) — has said. Presenting a paper on humanitarian aid in the country at a Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ)-organised forum yesterday, CPE director Samukele Hadebe said resources meant for the “vulnerable and very…
