HARARE – As the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections get closer, virtually all of the country’s opposition parties are signalling that they are ready to be part of the mooted grand coalition which analysts say could be key in booting President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF out of power. All the opposition parties that spoke to…
HARARE – A bellicose President Robert Mugabe yesterday appeared determined to scuttle his broke government’s tentative re-engagement efforts with Western powers, saying bizarrely that Zimbabweans would rather suffer than accept conditional assistance from the international community. The remarks flew in the face of Mugabe’s own recent statements that he wanted better relations with the West,…
HARARE – The government has buckled under pressure and started to retrench civil servants to cut its wage bill as it struggles to pay its 350 000-strong workforce. Reduction of the public wage bill was part of a plan agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Staff Monitored Programme to help reduce the…
BULAWAYO – Former Bulawayo mayors and councillors have taken a dig at Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere for “cheap politicking” after he promised to dish out acres of land to Zanu PF youths, ostensibly in a move aimed at easing the accommodation crisis. Thousands of Zanu PF supporters on Wednesday thronged Umvutshwa Village just outside…
HARARE – The decision by the broke government to pay health sector workers their June salaries in July will cripple the health sector, health practitioners warned yesterday. While the security sector workers will receive their salaries by end of this month, nurses, doctors, as well as other health workers will receive their June salaries mid-July….
HARARE – A policeman who shot a female workmate in a bid to sneak into Justice Lavender Makoni’s residence to see his girlfriend has been sentenced to six years. Harare regional magistrate Fadzai Mthombeni convicted Lloyd Salobe of attempted murder after a full trial. Mthombeni suspended two years of the sentence on condition of good…
HARARE – The new United States embassy being constructed in Bluffhill, Harare will have Great Zimbabwe architecture, according to embassy officials. The new embassy, being constructed on 16,5 acres, has been described by US President Barack Obama’s representatives as a symbol of America’s commitment to Zimbabwe. United States envoy to Zimbabwe, Harry Thomas Jnr, who…
HARARE – Harare town clerk James Mushore has filed an urgent chamber application in the High Court against acting mayor Chris Mbanga seeking to compel him to unlock his office at Town House. The office was locked by Mbanga, who insists Mushore, a former NMBZ Holdings group chief executive officer, was barred from work until…
A MUTARE businessman has filed a High Court application challenging the State Liabilities Act, which bars litigants from attaching State property, arguing that government officials are abusing the Act to evade complying with court orders. Tendai Mangwiro filed the application after he won his case last year to be reimbursed $78 900, which was confiscated…
HARARE – The High Court has quashed a $600 fine imposed on Harare businesswoman Patience Chivasa, who was accused of defrauding a South Africa-based Indian businessman of $22 000. Chivasa appealed to the High Court after she had been found guilty by the Harare Magistrates’ Courts on allegations of defrauding Dharmesh Nagar. However, High Court…
