HARARE – The Registrar General’s office has scraped fees for national identification cards replacement, under a massive voter registration campaign in preparation of the watershed election. Co-Home affairs minister Theresa Makone said with immediate effect, documents lost through arson and those forcibly removed from the owner through for instance theft, can be immediately replaced for…
MUTARE – Zanu PF factionalism, which threatens to derail President Robert Mugabe’s quest for another term in office, played out at the Mutare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday in signs that matters are coming to a head as elections beckon. Two provincial officials in court for allegedly stealing beasts meant for Mugabe’s birthday party last year yesterday…
HARARE – Plans to unbundle troubled State-owned power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) are forging ahead with government establishing a company solely responsible for electricity transmission, the National Grid Services Company (NGSC). NGSC, 100 percent government-owned, will inherit Zesa’s ‘legacy’ debt. Zesa has a debt of about $500 million accrued over the years due to a…
HARARE – Another bite of the cake? or, Hand on the baton? These are the two straightforward questions facing every senator, MP, mayor and local councillor right across Zimbabwe. Questions that require the individuals concerned to look themselves in the mirror and ask what they’ve done since they’ve been in office and what they’ve still…
HARARE – Aspiring MDC legislator for Mbare Sten Zvorwadza has sought police protection from the infamous Chipangano youth militia which he accuses of scuttling his business projects in the constituency. Zvorwadza, through his Mascom Investments company finance administrator Gertrude Marjory Kamhunga, wrote a letter to Matapi Police Station last week requesting protection from the Zanu…
HARARE – Violent vigilante groups such as Chipangano exist with the approval of the feared military establishment in the country, according to think tank group Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI). In a research paper released yesterday titled Security Sector Factor in Zimbabwe’s Political and Electoral Affairs, ZDI says the security sector establishment which has continued to…
HARARE – As the country struggles to extricate itself from over 30 years of Zanu PF’s dictatorship which is associated with gross human rights violations, a critical analysis of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) policy on national healing is imperative. It is important to critically evaluate political party policies in order to appreciate if…
HARARE – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has wished Zimbabwe a happy Independence and prosperity in the coming year. The 86-year-old British monarch sent the message to the people of Zimbabwe from Buckingham Palace on April 18, the day the southern African country gained its independence from British colonial rule 33 years ago. “It gives me…
HARARE – Embattled Interfin Banking Corporation (IBC) is courting Russian investors to inject fresh capital in a bid to resuscitate its banking unit — Interfin Bank, businessdaily has established. One of the Interfin’s shareholders confirmed the financial services group — currently under curatorship — is in talks with investors, but could not reveal their identity….
HARARE – Cousins Patrick Zingwena, 24, and Josephine Muonde, 19, whose love for each other led to a sexual relationship have escaped jail and will have to perform 140 hours of community service. The two cousins, who were found naked in bed by another relative, were found guilty of having sexual intercourse within a prohibited…
