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…
HARARE – The UK Supreme Court has upheld British Prime Minister Theresa May’s “harsh” £18 600 minimum income rule for those wishing to bring in non-European spouses in a ruling slammed by Zimbabwean campaigners as perpetuating the separation of thousands of families. The seven justices at the UK’s highest court announced their decision on Wednesday,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has appealed to parliamentarians to enact a law meting sterner punishment to individuals who leak examination papers. This comes as the internationally accredited examinations board will soon install a multi-purpose state-of-the-art printing press that will allow Zimsec to print exam papers internally, instead of outsourcing. Zimsec director Esau…
HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC and other opposition political parties have lost the electorate’s trust in recent years, a leading think-tank — Afrobarometer — has claimed. The research firm’s assistant project manager for southern Africa, Rorisang Lekalake, said a survey, which involved 9 500 interviews in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa (SA) and…
BULAWAYO – Former Industry minister Nkosana Moyo has challenged President Robert Mugabe to take a cue from Tanzania’s leader, John Magufuli, by cutting on profligate expenditure instead of splurging hefty sums on a lavish birthday party. He said “under normal circumstances, it’s probably time he (Mugabe) would go and rest and…spend time with his family,…
HARARE – Government must steeply hike spot fines to make them more punitive to stem road crime and carnage, police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri said yesterday. The police chief told the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development — which was touring the law enforcement agency’s transport management and computerisation centre at Chikurubi — that…
HARARE – Outspoken former Zanu PF youth leader for Mashonaland Central Godfrey Tsenengamu — who is facing serious charges of attempting to subvert President Robert Mugabe’s government — was denied bail by a Harare magistrate yesterday. Tsenengamu was remanded in custody to March 9 and advised to apply for bail at the High Court by…
HARARE – Former Finance minister and now leader of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Tendai Biti, has warned that President Robert Mugabe’s unwillingness to groom a successor, as well as Zanu PF’s escalating tribal, factional and successions wars, could plunge the country into civil war. This comes after Mugabe said pointedly last week that…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe unwittingly confirmed Zimbabwe’s worsening rot — which is widely blamed on him and his misfiring government — when he revealed during his annual birthday interview with the ZBC last week that even he kept money at home fearing bank failures. Mugabe also hinted in that televised interview that Zimbabwe should adopt…
HARARE – In a stunning call that is set to tear the warring ruling Zanu PF further apart, Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandi Chimene says Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa should be arrested for allegedly inciting his Zanu PF supporters to engage in acts of treason. At the same time, the Zanu PF women’s league renewed…
