HARARE – A few days ago, the former ruling party Zanu PF unveiled its 2013 election manifesto. The dossier, pointing out the party’s plans or intentions on driving forward Zimbabwe’s economy, starkly shows Zanu PF’s fallacy. It exposes how the President Robert Mugabe-led party is so detached from the realities on the ground. The manifesto,…
HARARE – Whatever its shortcomings, perceived or real — the African Union (AU) has proven most people wrong by being very decisive on the Egyptian crisis. AU has been accused of trailing other foreign bodies on African issues that needed its quick reaction. It also stands accused of allowing the passing of the resolution that…
HARARE – Franco ‘Slomo’ Dhaka, the lead vocalist of new sungura group Extra Kwazvose, says his group is not weighed down by the hype surrounding the launch of their debut album Ndizvo Zviripo on Friday. Despite the fact that the offshoot of Alick Macheso’s Orchestra Mberikwazvo has neither a song nor a show to their…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says President Robert Mugabe confided in him in one of their regular Monday meetings that he wants to rest but is being forced into an early election by hardliners in Zanu PF. Tsvangirai, 61, told thousands of his supporters at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura yesterday that his 89-year-old rival…
17:05, HARARE – Police have deployed water cannons at the “Freedom Square”, the open space near Rainbow Towers Hotel, where Morgan Tsvangirai held his last MDC rally ahead of the July 31 polls. 13:38, HARARE – SADC Election Observer mission says it would be too early to judge the fairness of the polls arguing they…
HARARE – Jah Prayzah, who was part of the cast of musicians who performed at Zanu PF’s manifesto launch in Harare last Friday, has said the gig was strictly business, not an endorsement of President Robert Mugabe’s party. Jah Prayzah along with Suluman Chimbetu and Mathias Mhere were some of the musicians who performed at…
HARARE – Given the recent and blistering attack on Lindiwe Zulu by President Robert Mugabe — and at a time Zimbabwe has been desperate for friends, if not made steady progress in its re-engagement efforts — one cannot escape the temptation that: The gods first make “mad” those that they wish to destroy. Otherwise, how…
HARARE – Mobile voter registration wound up on Tuesday, leaving thousands of unregistered Zimbabweans. Thousands of people overwhelmed registration offices. At Market Square and Makombe Building in Harare, many expressed frustration at failing to register to vote. At most centres, they continued limiting the number of people who could register. In Masvingo, our staff writer…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has demanded that the intense voter registration exercise be extended until Friday. Voter registration ended on Tuesday with multitudes of Zimbabweans still stuck in long queues across the country in a desperate attempt to exercise their right to elect a leader and a government of their choice. “We…
HARARE – Solomon Madzore, chairperson of the Youth Assembly for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC, is challenging a presidential insult law in the Constitutional Court. In an urgent Constitutional Court application he filed on Monday, Madzore described the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act as oppressive, arguing that the president should not be sanctified or…
