HARARE – Zanu PF has launched an audacious bid to wrest control of Harare from the MDC in the forthcoming harmonised elections in what could prove to be an acid test given the popularity of its main rival. Since 2000, the liberation movement has failed to control Harare following a dismal performance spawned by poor…
BULAWAYO – Former United Nations peacekeeping mission ambassador Ray Ncube has waded into the war between the MDC formations and Zanu PF over security sector reform following threats by some security sector commanders who have threatened not to recognise Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai if he won elections. Ncube, a retired military colonel, says the utterances…
HARARE – MDC MPs have complained that youths from their party are being excluded from a fund meant for youth empowerment programmes which they say is benefitting Zanu PF youth members only. Government has disbursed $10 million towards the youth fund since the formation of the coalition government to empower youths start income-generating projects. But…
HARARE – A landmark case in which a man living with HIV wants the Supreme Court to assert the rights of prisoners has opened in Harare, with revelations that accused persons are at times forced to strip naked while in detention. Douglas Muzanenhamo, a rights activist who is living with HIV, was arrested and incarcerated…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai shouted Chinja to the bemusement of Zanu PF ministers who attended the signing ceremony of the new Constitution. When the President raised his clenched fist, he asked the PM why he had not joined him, to which the PM said the slogan of the MDC was “Chinja”, which slogan…
HARARE – An 83-year-old Buhera chief currently serving 10 years for raping a teen relative wants to be freed from prison, at least until his appeal is finalised. Magaya Gunguwo’s rule as Chief Chitsunge of Buhera ended in shame after he was convicted in April for raping a 14-year-old girl who happens to be his…
HARARE – Who would have imaged that at this stage of the season, little Harare City would be sitting in second place in the Castle Premiership, having, at least for 24 hours, dislodged FC Platinum at the top? Who would have imagined that Dynamos, with one of the worst start by a defending champion in…
BULAWAYO – Divisions in the revived Zapu party appear to have deepened, with former party provincial chairman Ray Ncube claiming his forced departure worsened the miseries that have become synonymous with a party founded by the late vice president Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo. Nkomo’s liberation war intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa now leads the fractured Zapu. Ncube,…
MASVINGO – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party has indefinitely postponed primary elections in Masvingo that were set for this weekend, a senior official has said. Party provincial secretary Tongai Matutu said the primaries were postponed because the party’s elections directorate members could not cope with the number of provinces that are also pencilled to…
HARARE – An Inyathi policeman has been arraigned before a Bulawayo magistrate on charges of extortion and possession of mbanje. Tinei Munashe Moyo, 22, is denying the charges. Magistrate Crispen Mberewere remanded him out of custody until June 6 when he returns to court. Prosecutor Jeremiah Mutsindikwa on Wednesday told the court that on December…
