HARARE – There are growing fears that Zimbabwe’s battered economy, which has seen State revenues continuing to dip and the government failing to pay its bloated civil service, is headed for an imminent implosion. The warning comes as the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) recently announced that it had once again missed its collections target for…
HARARE – As President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF come under increasing fire from a restless populace that is fed up with the country’s deepening rot, pressure group Tajamuka/Sesjikile says it will ratchet up its mass action programmes to force the nonagenarian to leave office now, as he did not represent the future anymore. The reaffirmation…
HARARE – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai is suffering from serious illness — colon cancer — but still has time to throw a jibe at President Robert Mugabe — describing his handling of the country as worse than his condition. Tsvangirai said while his health condition which he disclosed on June 27 had “shaken our country…
HARARE – Zimbabwe envoy to Ghana — Pavelyn Tendai Musaka — has derisively told President Robert Mugabe’s critics that they are wasting time plotting to topple him. Describing them as little boys and girls, Musaka said Mugabe was unmoved by the criticism that he has received on social media and the recent wave of protests. “Of…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has deployed Zanu PF politburo and central committee members to douse the factional fires consuming the party nationwide, ahead of 2018 elections. On Saturday, the ruling party bigwigs led by Zanu PF secretary for Science and Technology Jonathan Moyo, were dispatched to the political hotbed of Masvingo where they held…
HARARE – Tajamuka/Sesjikile, a grouping of political parties and ordinary Zimbabweans, has vowed to ramp up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to quit office before the 2018 elections and in this instalment its spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi tells senior assistant editor Guthrie Munyuki that it has the capacity to bring to an end the nonagenarian’s political…
RABAT – Morocco has formally announced its wish to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after leaving the organisation. In a message to the AU summit in Rwanda, the Moroccan King Mohammed VI said the time had come for his country to retake its place within its institutional family. Morocco left the AU in 1984,…
BULAWAYO – A rush of blood to the head and the subsequent stupid act by veteran striker Leonard Tsipa cost CAPS United as Highlanders edged the Harare side 1-0 in a tough encounter played here yesterday. Tsipa, the oldest player on the pitch, foolishly head-butted Highlanders defender Peter Muduhwa in an off-the-ball incident to earn…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association president Philip Chiyangwa has been invited to Nigeria by is counterpart Amaju Pinnick for a meeting with Fifa boss Gianni Infantino this weekend. Infantino and the new Fifa secretary-general Fatma Samoura will be arriving in Abuja this Saturday. “This is to respectfully invite you to the Federal Republic of Nigeria…
HARARE – Returning midfielder Denver Mukamba finally made his second debut for Dynamos yesterday but failed to inspire his boyhood side to victory as they were held to a goalless draw by visiting ZPC Kariba. Mukamba, who re-joined DeMbare at the start of the month after a frustrating three-year stint in the South Africa Absa…
