January 2015

HARARE – Much-harassed former vice president Joice Mujuru says she is not afraid of the ruthless and unrelenting onslaught on her — that includes the murky allegations of plotting to oust and assassinate President Robert Mugabe, as well as the corruption, abuse of office and extortion charges that she faces and that are being “investigated”…

HARARE – Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) leader Walter Magaya on Sunday predicted that a building would soon collapse in Harare’s First Street. Magaya told thousands of his congregants, who included Zimdancehall sensation Tocky Vibes, during a church service in Waterfalls that he had been shown a vision of a building collapsing in the…

HARARE – Former Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa (pictured) has returned home from India and is expected to join a team of disaffected party cadres who are set to challenge the outcome of the party’s damp squib “elective” congress that was held in Harare last year. Sources close to the Makoni North legislator…

HARARE – Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani will languish in remand prison after a Harare magistrate denied him bail amid fears the Vapositori cleric would abscond trial. Mufani is being charged with public violence after members of his sect attacked journalists, police officers and Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) officials who had gone to shut down…

HARARE – Hundreds of Zimbabwean immigrants thronged the South African Embassy in Harare over the last two days in a last-ditch bid to secure required travel documents to return to the neighbouring country. At the same time, thousands more were being turned away by South Africa’s immigration officers at the Beitbridge Border Post since January…

MASVINGO – The current spell of heavy rains has woefully exposed government’s shoddy disaster preparedness, rights groups have said. Early warning systems have failed and authorities have failed to mobilise relief goods, or prepare themselves for likely water disasters if the rivers swell. Jonathan Chifuna, the Zimbabwe Meteorological Department’s principal meteorological officer, said this week…

BULAWAYO – The Bulawayo City Council has attributed its failure to provide basic services to the prevailing liquidity crunch which it contends has shooed away prospective investors. In his New Year message, Bulawayo mayor Martin Moyo admitted that the city’s financial outlook was bleak. “Lack of investment in the city and the prevailing liquidity crunch…