BULAWAYO – Former acting secretary-general of the Welshman Ncube-led MDC Moses Mzila-Ndlovu has angrily scoffed at his expulsion, accusing the party president of running the fringe opposition party like a tuck shop. The former National Healing minister was sacked on Saturday after the MDC National Standing Committee, chaired by Ncube, found him guilty of “failing…
HARARE – Calls for protests to back a push for long-overdue electoral reforms have put Zimbabwe on guard, with opposition leaders seeing an explosion of mass anger “soon”. Yet to many, a sustained uprising, appears unlikely, at least for now. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a news conference last week that imminent mass protests will…
HARARE – Parliament is saddled with a motion backlog burden cutting across all committees of the august House because of MPs flagrantly bunking business, Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has said. Petitions, motions and bills are gathering dust on committees’ desks. The days of MPs getting away with missing parliamentary sittings should become…
HARARE – A Harare regional magistrate yesterday jailed an opposition Zimbabwe People’s Front (ZPF) president for nine years on charges of attempting to firebomb the First Family’s Alpha Omega Dairies in Mazowe. Owen Kuchata was convicted on charges of possession of weaponry for sabotage, money laundering and terrorism. He was jailed by regional magistrate Hosea…
HARARE – The Health Services Board (HSB) said yesterday it suspended the executive of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) for inciting doctors to go on industrial action, breaching standing orders by washing dirty linen in public and relentlessly attacking the mother board. The move to suspend four members of the ZHDA leadership followed criticism…
WASHINGTON – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders have shaken up the US presidential race with decisive victories in the New Hampshire primary. Billionaire Mr Trump is likely to get more than twice the number of votes of the next Republican candidate. Senator Bernie Sanders, who beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by a huge…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has been called to adopt Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) as a method of voter registration and compilation of the voters roll in Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 elections. BVR is a technology that captures unique physical features such as finger-prints and facial scans for the purposes of identification. Unlike…
HARARE – The Zanu PF women’s league, which is agitating for President Robert Mugabe to appoint a woman as one of his two deputies before the end of this year — in a move that could put paid to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations — is shaking things up again. The influential…
HARARE – Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday savaged commercial radio station ZiFM Stereo after the station, owned by Information Communication Techonology minister Supa Mandiwanzira, pulled out of an interview that it had granted him to discuss a government scholarship programme. The irate Moyo suggested that political machinations were behind the station’s last-minute decision to…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe People’s Front (ZPF) political party president accused of attempting to bomb the First Family’s Alpha Omega Dairies in Mazowe will be sentenced on insurgency charges today. ZPF president Owen Kuchata, 34, pleaded guilty to charges of possession of weaponry for sabotage, money laundering and terrorism. “When the interpreter translated the facts…
