HARARE – President Robert Mugabe could be forced out of office earlier than 2018 by Zimbabwe’s worsening cash and liquidity crisis, a US-based think tank has said. In a September 19 newsletter, American publisher and global intelligence company, Strategic Forecasting, Inc (Stratfor), cautioned that without a plan to rehabilitate the economy, government was at risk…
HARARE – Seemingly deranged Zanu PF youths ran amok in Guruve on Sunday, embarking on an orgy of political violence and leaving for dead four Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) bigwigs — including a retired senior military official and former diplomat — and forcing a local school to close yesterday. The barbaric attacks by axe-wielding ruling…
HARARE – Music legend Oliver Mtukudzi was denied an honorary degree by the University of Zimbabwe because his hit song Wasakara was deemed to be anti-President Robert Mugabe, a leading academic has claimed. Wasakara, off the commercially successful Bvuma/Tolerance album released in 2000, was replete with deep-meaning lyrics which implored an old man to accept…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is experiencing a worrying rise in rights violations and arbitrary arrests ahead of the 2018 elections, a human rights group said. This comes as scores of anti-government protesters have been jailed — in an apparent move by President Robert Mugabe’s regime to quash the demonstrations — while many were injured in political…
HARARE – High Court judge Justice David Mangota yesterday ordered the immediate release of anti-President Robert Mugabe activist, Linda Masarira, pictured, who has been languishing in remand prison for nearly two months. The order is on the back of an urgent chamber application filed by Masarira’s attorney, Andrew Makoni — a member of Zimbabwe Lawyers…
HARARE – It is a defining week for the Constitutional Court (Con-Court), which will hear and make decisions on constitutional applications that have a strong bearing on the country’s justice delivery system. The challenges have been prompted by the delays in the alignment of operational Acts in line with provisions of the Constitution signed into…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has called on Zimbabweans to escalate protests against President Robert Mugabe’s government, saying “the struggle for change is approaching its end”. Addressing victims of police brutality yesterday, Tsvangirai said with the current wave of demonstrations, 92-year-old Mugabe will soon surrender. “I can tell you one thing, the struggle for…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s long forgotten bearer cheques have resurfaced on the streets of Harare, with money changers paying United States dollars for the notes. A survey carried out by the Daily News yesterday confirmed that the notes — introduced at the height of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis characterised by hyperinflation in 2003 — are now on…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) bosses accused of attempting to bribe the national soccer team in a match-fixing scandal could have pocketed approximately $500 000, if the deal had not been botched, a court heard yesterday. Ex-Zifa chief executive Hanrietta Rushwaya, 49, and former board members Edzai Kasinauyo and Nation Dube are denying…
HARARE – Power utility Zesa’s subsidiaries have been exempted from paying import duty on spares and equipment following provisions gazetted last week under Statutory Instrument 113 of 2016. The government gazette published on Friday stated that Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa had in terms of Section 235 of the Customs and Excise Act, rescinded import duty…
