HARARE – Incarcerated Sunday Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi has opened a can of political worms by sensationally claiming that Cabinet ministers caused his arrest to appease President Robert Mugabe following his outburst that Zanu PF had been infiltrated by “weevils” which had to be rooted out. In affidavits filed at the High Court yesterday by…
HARARE – The Federation of Non Governmental Organisations (Fongo) yesterday said South African Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is not welcome in Zimbabwe. Madonsela is expected in Zimbabwe tomorrow to deliver a public lecture on her controversial report which took on President Jacob Zuma over the use of taxpayer’s money to upgrade his residence at his…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court has blasted Jessie Majome, the MP for Harare West, for seeking postponement at short notice of a hearing of her application seeking to force the State broadcaster ZBC to encrypt its signal so that it is only received by those who wish to associate with its “biased programming.” In the…
HARARE – Transport minister Obert Mpofu and Zimbabwe Revenue Authority commissioner-general Gershom Pasi are headed for a clash following the minister’s insistence on creating a Border Post Authority. Mpofu’s ministry currently oversees over a dozen parastatals including the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara), the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), the Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED),…
MASVINGO – Tendai Peter Munyanduri, the president of the opposition Progressive and Innovative Movement of Zimbabwe (Pimz), has called on President Robert Mugabe to step-down before the country plunges into total economic disaster. He told the Daily News on the sidelines of a meeting to establish his party’s structures here that Mugabe’s Zanu PF was…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court yesterday slammed the Immigration Authority for denying Zimbabweans based in other countries the right to dual citizenship. In the ruling in a case brought by Farai Madzimbamuto who was denied citizenship for possessing a South African passport, Justice Vernanda Ziyambi said the new Constitution approved dual citizenship. “Any law which…
HARARE – Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who endured disparaging attacks from the once faceless Amai Jukwa now unmasked as Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi, plans to drag the 28-year-old to court. Kudzayi, who is currently languishing in remand prison on charges of banditry, attempting to overthrow a constitutionally-elected government, plotting insurgency, terrorism and sabotage,…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has granted $500 bail to an ex-BancABC international banking officer facing a $1 million fraud charge. Nhamoinesu Francis, 32, of 2032 Mainway Meadows, Waterfalls is answering to $1 006 088 fraud charge. Magistrate Donald Ndirowei considered that one of Nhamoinesu’s accomplices Andrea Jenkins had been granted bail by the same…
HARARE – The opposition MDC is moving to block attempts by ex-secretary-general Tendai Biti to haul its leader Morgan Tsvangirai before a disciplinary hearing by filing an interdict with the High Court today. Biti’s renewal team wants to drag Tsvangirai before its disciplinary committee following his reported controversial suspension from the MDC in April. Tsvangirai…
HARARE – Ladies and gentlemen, the results of the “election” of July 31, 2013 are now out. The election results are not the fudged figures announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, but the practical reality of the acute suffering that Zimbabweans are experiencing every day. I spent my childhood in the rural areas as a…
