HARARE – Despite the frenzied speculation within President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations are now dead in the water, former ruling party spokesperson and Cabinet minister, Rugare Gumbo, says the Midlands godfather “may be down but definitely not out”. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday in…
MATOBO – President Robert Mugabe yesterday basked in reverence as his wife, Grace, heaped praises on the nonagenarian while he was feted with giant cakes at a colourful feast to mark his 93rd birthday. Mugabe — who was born on February 21, 1924 — was showered with praises not only by his wife, but by…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has warned President Robert Mugabe that he faces not only a united opposition in the 2018 elections, but also internal revolt within the ruling Zanu PF. The opposition leader’s comments are on the back of the nonagenarian leader boasting during his 93rd birthday interview that he would win the…
HARARE – Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) will in June at their annual summit adopt a far-reaching set of guidelines for elections. These include elements demanded by the Zimbabwe opposition, which will contest crucial general elections next year, such as equal access for all political parties to the State media and impartiality…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s rural home district of Zvimba has controversially grabbed the largest amounts of money allocated to the Registrar General (RG) department, Parliament heard this week. The move — likely to cause shock in political and civil society circles — apparently confirms the skewed distribution of national resources in the country, with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader Joice Mujuru has said she will not apologise or retract the claims she made that her former allies Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo wanted to have sex with her. She said the two — who threatened to slap her with a $5 million lawsuit, if she does not…
HARARE – In a major development that will give relief to thousands of motorists who complain about the random and unrelenting harassment at roadblocks, police have admitted that they have no right to force drivers to pay spot fines. This followed a High Court ruling on Wednesday which established that there was no law that…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has called for an emergency meeting between senior Zimbabwean officials and their Pretoria counterparts after an orgy of anti-immigrant violence rocked South Africa yesterday, leaving tens of thousands of Zimbabweans and other foreigners in severe trauma. The violence, which occurred mainly around Pretoria, came days after the leader of a…
HARARE – The University of Zimbabwe student, Romeo Zibani, who recently lost a bid to stop the conducting of interviews to replace Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, has filed another court application challenging the composition of the bench that dismissed his request. The 25-year-old lost the application after judges ruled that an intention to amend a…
HARARE – A group of Bubi villagers were yesterday forced to withdraw their lawsuit against Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko after the ex-ambassador and businessman’s lawyers successfully argued before the Bulawayo High Court that the farmers had no right to stop their eviction. This was after Vusa Ncube and 67 others had dragged the government number…
