EDITOR — Our party is sliding into a quandary while we watch. It’s high time we enact hyper-active strategies in order to avert further sinking in the abyss. I think it’s prudent for us to activate systems and move forward with our democratic focus as dictated by our founding values of 1999. Efforts to work-out…
EDITOR — Tertiary education has become so expensive in this country. Many universities in the country are so expensive such that an ordinary person can not even afford. Education should be accessed by any one and I wonder with the rate at which the fees are being hiked, where is this country is heading to?…
HARARE – As the Zimbabwean economy sinks deeper into a recession, characterised by company closures, heavy losses by listed firms, deflation and deteriorating social and health services, it’s sad that the Zanu PF-led government has proven itself to be devoid of ideas and solutions. We strongly believe that our leadership’s silence on the worsening economic…
HARARE – Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church (UFIC), buoyed by its backing from government, says it will go ahead with the “Judgement Night” prayer session on April 19, despite claims by Ghanaian pastors that the popular preacher would have been arrested and his church closed down. The pastors led by one Lawrence Ajoba…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has “completely lost control” of Zanu PF, as factional fights and other political clashes have become more public, and dirtier, analysts have said. This comes as Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa touched off a political storm after he made stunning accusations alleging that Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa connived with businessman…
HARARE – Elton Mangoma and a team of his loyalists yesterday ruled out any unity with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, highlighting intensified strategies to dethrone him. Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, suspended MDC deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma’s spokesperson Jacob Mafume, who was introduced as the “MDC renewal team spokesperson,” said the purported unity between the…
HARARE – Savior Kasukuwere’s production of forged documents to justify claims that companies mining gems in Chiadzwa each pledged $10 million towards the controversial Marange-Zimunya community share ownership schemes expose the minister’s dishonesty, analysts say. While Kasukuwere, now Environment, Water and Climate minister, produced documentary “evidence” in an effort to debunk claims by diamond mining…
HARARE – Hospitals have no right to detain mothers who have failed to pay maternity user fees, MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe has said. Government hospitals say they are detaining mothers as a way of arm-twisting them to pay-up outstanding user fees. The practice, which has become widespread, was put before Parliament by Khupe on…
HARARE – The announcement by government to cancel all agricultural import permits is a recipe for disaster which may lead to shortages and unjustified price increases, a latest market report reveals. This development follows a directive by Agriculture minister Joseph Made last week that there was need to revise rules and regulations governing the importation…
BULAWAYO – Ten years on, Operation Murambatsvina victims are still homeless countrywide, with government’s promises for better housing still a mirage for the hapless victims. In 2005, President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF government launched a countrywide house demolition campaign dubbed Operation Murambatsvina which left thousands of Zimbabweans in urban and peri-urban areas homeless under the…
