BULAWAYO – President Robert Mugabe yesterday tried to exorcise the demon of rejection by the people of Matabeleland by begging thousands of bused supporters who thronged the White City Stadium to vote for his party in Wednesday’s elections. Mugabe’s party was completely routed in polls in Bulawayo in the 2008 harmonised elections where it failed…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Elizabeth yesterday appealed to all mothers in Chegutu to vote out President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party. In an address to MDC supporters at Pfupajena Stadium, she said Zimbabweans have suffered long enough and that should push them to vote for change on July 31. “I…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of attempting to steal the July 31 vote in favour of President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti said the Rita Makarau-led Zec was “deliberately engaging in errors of commission and omission” including the duplication of ballot papers, putting…
HARARE – Given his advanced age, extensive corruption by successive Zanu PF governments, poor economic stewardship, sorry state of other essential services and general despondency within the country, do Zimbabweans have any reason to retain President Robert Mugabe in power? These are some of the multi-million-dollar questions that the citizens of this country will be…
BULAWAYO – Parastatals and State Enterprises minister Gorden Moyo has “declared” the first day of August Zimbabwe’s second Independence Day. Moyo who is also the mainstream MDC Bulawayo provincial chairperson and an aspiring candidate for Makokoba Constituency said the day after July 31 watershed elections will mark the country’s rebirth from three decades of black…
BULAWAYO – Makokoba Constituency aspirant, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube has pulled all stops to buy votes in Bulawayo’s oldest township through a musical concert held on Friday. Dube roped in South African and Bulawayo artistes to perform at the all-night concert at Stanley Square renowned for hosting veteran nationalist gatherings during the early 1960s. In…
MBERENGWA – A wave of political violence has hit Mberengwa District in the Midlands Province with the resurfacing of Zanu PF campaign bases and the re-emergence of notorious war veterans’ leader Biggie Chitoro. According to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC, eight Zanu PF campaign bases have resurfaced at Chomubhobho, Vanguard Mine, Gwamasaka, Neta, Sarauro,York, Gwengwena…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has vowed to revive the Zimbabwe dollar and urged local to keep the shelved notes for possible compensation if wins re-election. In an address to tens of thousands of people in Gweru on Friday, said the Zimbabwean Zim dollar, once on par with the British pound and reduced to almost…
BULAWAYO – Having borne the brunt playing cat and mouse with the police in the pits for years, artisanal miners, also known as Amakorokoza have finally been recognised as an important sector by government. Deputy Mines and Mining Development minister, Gift Chimanikire told a Small Scale Miner’s conference at the Mine Entra that government will…
HARARE – Our beloved and respected Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has made a decision in favour of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), to allow those that did not vote, to vote on July 31, 2013. I had the privilege of reading the Zec application and in my opinion, no disrespect or contempt to anyone; it is…
