HARARE – Disgruntled civil servants say they will embark on a crippling nationwide strike from Tuesday this week, over the continued late payment of their salaries as well as the “uncertain future and lack of job security”. The planned industrial action comes amid escalating civil unrest in the country owing to rising poverty levels, worsening…
HARARE – Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere must explain his “staggering wealth”, Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson Douglas Mahiya has said. While the combative ex-freedom fighter was backed by his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) counterpart Obert Gutu at an Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe discussion forum on Wednesday, Mahiya says it would…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai is upbeat about recovering from colon cancer and confident in his medical team, his top allies have said, adding he trusts completely in the treatments he is undergoing. The opposition leader is back in Harare convalescing after an initial round of chemotherapy, with the cancer saga appearing to have tightened the…
HARARE – He has had a brush with law enforcement agents and has been banned from getting anywhere near Rainbow Towers Hotel after leading protests against Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s continued stay in the presidential suite of the hotel, yet Sten Zvorwadza seems undeterred. On June 26, Zvorwadza grabbed a unique moment of activism and…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe teeters on the brink of slipping into social upheaval as a result of the deteriorating economic situation, President Robert Mugabe and his administration must provide leadership. Zimbabwe is in the throes of an economic tsunami which has brought fears that the situation could degenerate into the chaos of 2008 which was…
HARARE – As the country teeters on the brink of total collapse, hundreds of angry Zimbabweans, together with scores of other cross-border traders, yesterday paralysed operations at Beitbridge Border Post as they demonstrated against the government’s recent controversial decision to ban the importation of basic goods into the country. Eyewitnesses who spoke to the Daily…
HARARE – The courts yesterday ordered the immediate release of embattled Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni after it emerged that the State had detained him for more than 48 hours and therefore breached the Constitution in the process. Manyenyeni is being charged with criminal abuse of office, as well as allegedly corruptly concealing personal interests in…
HARARE – The European Union (EU), Zimbabwean civil society and opposition have ganged up on Zanu PF for brazenly disregarding the new Constitution and using its tyranny of numbers in Parliament to fast- track the Local Government Amendment Bill. The Bill was gazetted on May 9 and on June 7, it was introduced in the…
HARARE – Acie Lumumba’s vulgar rant against President Robert Mugabe has elicited mixed reactions, with some saying the Viva Zimbabwe leader’s foul and strong comments “exceeded the red lines”, while others said malicious political japery has always been employed in revolutionary rhetoric. Lumumba’s “offensive” comments about the 92-year-old president were flung into the political orbit…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF Hurungwe West MP Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that President Robert Mugabe does not trust securocrats that have always been seen as the power behind the nonagenarian leader’s 36-year rule. Speaking from Brussels, where he met with several European Union representatives through a Media Origins-organised meeting, Mliswa took the opportunity…
