HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s $20 million demonetisation programme is aimed at “liquidating all Zimbabwe dollar balances” as at December 2008 and “not compensating speculators’ inflationary gains”. This comes amid rumblings about whether the minimum $5 payments — for the total Z$220 billion (revalued) balances — were not a “mockery” to legitimate account…
HARARE – The first ever African president I ever saw being inaugurated was Kenneth David Kaunda of Zambia in 1964. He was in power until 1991, when he lost an election to the pint-sized former trade unionist, Frederick Chiluba. There was no limit to how long Kaunda would have remained in power. Kaunda was initially…
HARARE – Two Zanu PF formations are now effectively in existence after former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa revealed yesterday that he had formally written to Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda to advise him that the Zanu PF led by President Robert Mugabe was illegal and as such had no mandate to fire him or…
MUTARE – Suddenly newly-appointed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appeared to set himself on a collision course with President Robert Mugabe when he told western diplomats that Zimbabwe wished to re-engage with the West after more than a decade of isolation which he said had cost the country 15 years of development. On his part,…
HARARE – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has exhorted Zimbabwean police to make efforts to ensure the public gets full measure of their service. Mphoko was speaking at the graduation ceremony of 508 police officers at Morris Depot in Harare yesterday. He said while the law gives certain powers to the police, there was need for…
HARARE – Epworth residents have accused the local police of promoting prostitution and drug dealing at a local precinct. Residents told a stakeholders meeting with top Zimbabwe Republic Police officers that debauchery was happening at the Overspill Police Base. Priscilla Rongoti, a paralegal at Justice for Children, told the gathering that the police were turning…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must increase its financial investment to implement a new education sector plan that outlines all the priorities for the next five years, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said. The ministry was allocated $890 million in the 2015 national Budget but 98 percent of the funds were taken up by employment…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has applied for authority from the prosecutor-general’s office to impose a hefty prison term on jailed lawyer Simbarashe Tsaurai, who is awaiting sentence on another fraud charge. Magistrate Audrey Tarugarira intends to proceed by way of Section 54 (2) of the Magistrates Act because the sentence she intends to impose…
BULAWAYO – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has slammed the United MDC (UMDC) party accusing it of being Zanu PF agents keen to destabilise its stronghold. The statement by Felix Mafa Sibanda, the mainstream MDC deputy provincial spokesperson, comes ahead of the launch of UMDC slated for Stanley Square in Bulawayo on Sunday. Zanu PF has over…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has called for the resignation of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)’s top brass over the holding of illegal by-elections. President Robert Mugabe has proclaimed that by-elections shall be held on March 27 in the Mt Darwin West and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituencies. The constituencies fell vacant following the re-appointment of Joice Mujuru, the…
