July 2015

HARARE – Combative Local Government minister and Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is in the dog box following stunning revelations in Parliament this week that he tried to force mining companies to pay consultancy firm Brainworks Capital millions of dollars. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Youth Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment on Thursday,…

HONDE VALLEY – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has warned the economy will be further doomed and hunger will worsen if Zimbabweans do not unite to kick out Zanu PF from power. Addressing more than 1 000 people at Hauna Business Centre in Mutasa North yesterday, Tsvangirai said while his leadership will continue pushing for electoral…

HARARE – The rising power and influence of President Robert Mugabe’s controversial wife, Grace, has been on full public display this week — with politicians, business people and service chiefs among the noteworthy bigwigs who have gone into a bootlicking frenzy as the First Lady celebrates her 50th birthday. Among the range of fawning messages…

MUTARE – Belligerent police disrupted an MDC meeting at Queens Hall in Mutare yesterday when they insisted on sitting through the private deliberations of an internal party meeting — contrary to the provisions of the law. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, said this had happened despite the fact that the party had notified…

HARARE – Several boxes of expired anti-retroviral drugs were dispensed to patients by public hospitals, compromising the health of patients, the Auditor General has reported. In a recent audit report for the year ended December 31, 2014, the auditor general, Mildred Chiri, said hospitals were not equipped with proper systems to curb distribution of expired…

HARARE – The on-going harassment of commercial farmer David Connolly, owner of Centenary Farm in Figtree, is impacting severely on his displaced workers and on agricultural production. Since June last year, Connolly has been embroiled in a fierce legal battle with  the deputy chief secretary to the President and Cabinet, Ray Ndhlukula, who has been…