September 2016

HARARE – Zimbabweans should hold on for an even rougher ride in the coming days and weeks, as the battle lines have been drawn anew between a panicking President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu PF on one side, and long-suffering citizens on the other — who defiantly plan to take to the streets again,…

MUTARE – Higher and Tertiary Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, has slammed the willy-nilly conferment of honorary degrees by philanthropic organisations, labelling them “dubious” and vowed to protect the country’s academic reputation. Moyo also tore into beneficiaries of the degrees, saying some of them lacked “any academic or rational basis to deserve any degree”, but were…

BULAWAYO – Former Zanu PF politburo member, Dzikamai Mavhaire, said no amount of repression and brutality by the cornered President Robert Mugabe’s government can block the winds of political change blowing in Zimbabwe. The former Energy minister — who is famed for publicly telling Mugabe more than two decades ago that he must step down …

GWANDA – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader Joice Mujuru said President Robert Mugabe’s rule has eroded the gains of the country’s hard-fought independence and his attitude towards people is as bad as the former colonisers. Addressing her supporters at a rally at Phelandaba Stadium in Gwanda yesterday, Mujuru said Mugabe and his Zanu PF government have…

HARARE – Social ills — prostitution, poaching and theft — have spiked in the Hwange mining town, as unpaid Hwange Colliery Company (HCC) workers increasingly get hard-pressed, a Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) report said. This comes as the town’s economy is largely driven by the coal miner and its workers activities. But HCC is reeling…

HARARE – Seventeen months ago — on April 13, 2015 to be precise — Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa held a game-changing press conference in Harare in which he announced that government had suspended civil servants’ bonuses for two years. The Treasury chief, accompanied by then-Information minister Jonathan Moyo and President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba,…

RECENT suggestions by Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo that youths will decide the outcome of the much-anticipated 2018 elections is an inadvertent admission that President Robert Mugabe and his party’s end is nigh, analysts say. In a tweet last week, Moyo, a member of Mugabe’s Zanu PF politburo submitted that “As a DEMOGRAPHIC group, G40…

HARARE – Despite enduring police brutality and arrests, MDC youth leader Happymore Chidziva says he is not deterred by Zanu PF’s “unscrupulous” means to stop them, adding that he and other party youths are prepared to “die” in their bid to free Zimbabweans from the ruling party’s “yoke of bondage”. Our reporter Blessings Mashaya spoke…