HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has been accused of stealing 22 years of progress from Zimbabwe due to corruption and misuse of government funds, a top MDC minister has said. MDC secretary-general and Finance minister Tendai Biti told an all-structures conference for Harare leaders on Saturday that the MDC faces a mammoth task…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has reacted angrily to claims by Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa that security sector realignment is not part of the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Mnangagwa, who is also Zanu PF’s secretary for legal affairs, made the claims in an interview with State-controlled media reporters at the National Defence College….
HARARE – Blood is on the floor in the MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as the party heads for primary elections to choose candidates ahead of a watershed general election whose timing is still a subject of bickering. The MDC last Wednesday completed its vetting process, but so intense was the contest that…
HARARE – Asset management firm Platinum Investment Managers (Platinum) has awarded excelling students from six universities in the country who participated in its Platinum University Student Challenge. In the competition — targeted at rewarding talent and brilliance amongfinance and business faculty students — scholars are invited throughtheir universities to participate in research and essay writing….
HARARE – A fresh purge of the judiciary is unfolding as Zimbabweans hurtles towards a crucial harmonised election anytime soon pitting two fierce political opponents — Zanu PF and MDC. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has reportedly opened an inquiry into the conduct of High Court judge Justice Charles Hungwe in the wake of allegations by…
HARARE – In Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, there are 77 convicts who have been condemned to death by hanging. Held in solitary confinement in cells close to the gallows, some of those condemned to death have been there for more than a decade, their appeals rejected by President…
HARARE – Over the years, it has become very clear that South Africa is the worst mediator on the continent. From Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma, South Africa has not had much success with its mediation efforts because their policies are formed around outdated camaraderieships with former liberation war political parties elsewhere. Unlike countries such…
HARARE – Teenage all-rounder Peter Burgoyne believes a productive winter in Zimbabwe can only have boosted his hopes of gaining a place in Derbyshire’s four-day side. Burgoyne has already impressed in limited-overs cricket for KarlKrikken’s men, despite only turning 19 in November, and was rewarded with a new three-year contract at the end of last…
MUTARE – Close to 100 supporters of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC on Saturday staged a demonstration at the party’s provincial headquarters in Mutare protesting the disqualification of their preferred Mutasa South legislative candidate Regai Tsunga. Waving placards inscribed “Regai Tsunga, our preferred candidate” and others boldly stating “Tsunga has a right to represent us”,…
BULAWAYO – Debutants How Mine bounced back from last week’s 4-1 drubbing at the hands of Castle Premiership pacesetters FC Platinum to collect maximum points against Monomotapa here yesterday. Simon Njeleza and Timothy January were on target for the gold miners in the first half while the visitors got their face saver from Zvikomborero Biseki…
