HARARE – A directive by the ministry of Education last week ordering schools to cancel entrance tests for 2017 Form 1 pupils and wait for the release of Grade 7 results has divided opinion among most parents. While some secondary schools were already enrolling learners into Form 1 through application of their own entrance tests…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s ugly factional and succession battles have once again spilled into the courts, with war veterans’ leader Victor Matemadanda — who is linked to the camp rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa — dragging alleged G40 kingpin and women’s league secretary for Finance, Sarah Mahoka, to the High Court. Matemadanda, who…
HARARE – Churches have condemned police brutality and savage beatings of peaceful protesters which they said violated the Constitution. This comes in the wake of Wednesday and Thursday’s barbaric attacks on vendors and Tajamuka/Sesjikile members who were protesting against the introduction of bond notes. Dozens of protesters were injured in the attacks. In a statement…
HARARE – Harare regional magistrate Noel Mupeiwa yesterday ordered jailed rapist Munyaradzi Kereke and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to foot 75 percent of the costs incurred in bringing the former legislator to justice. Kereke — a former Bikita West Zanu PF MP — is serving 10 years in jail after he was convicted of…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF youth leader William Mutumanje — popularly known as Acie Lumumba — will stand trial for insulting President Robert Mugabe after his application for referral of the matter to Constitutional Court (Con-Court) was dismissed. Mutumanje, who appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe, is being charged with undermining authority of or…
HARARE – Missing activist Itai Dzamara’s family — his wife Sheffra, brother Patson and two children — yesterday besieged Unicef’s Harare offices with a petition demanding that the organisation retracts its statement that condemned them of abusing children This came barely 24 hours after pressure group Tajamuka protested outside the humanitarian and aid organisation’s offices…
HARARE – Zimbabwe and Mozambique yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will see convicted inmates from both countries being transferred to serve sentences in their countries of origin. The MoU emanated from resolutions of a Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security meeting whose memorandum of agreement (MoA) sort to develop bilateral cooperation…
HARARE – The ministerial team tasked to rescue “abducted” Madzibaba Wimbo — real name Aaron Mhukuta — said it remains determined to fulfil its mandate, as instructed by President Robert Mugabe. This comes amid claims that the prophet is happy staying at his shrine away from his family. Last month, following a meeting with Wimbo’s…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s human rights violations and poor democracy were under the spotlight this week when civil society from three African countries…
HARARE – Police yesterday battered and seriously injured outspoken National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader, Sten Zvorwadza — who had gone to Harare Central Police Station to hand over a peace offering to law enforcement agents. Zvorwadza’s brutal assault, which resulted in him being admitted at the Avenues Clinic in the capital, also came…
