HARARE – Zimbabwe needs to deal with, and address corruption levels to unlock funding, a European Union official has said, amid indications that the country’s high levels of domestic debt and fiscal deficit are being driven by rampant corruption. EU envoy to Zimbabwe, Philippe Van Damme, last week told delegates at his half-term commemoration meeting…
HARARE – Seemingly deranged Zanu PF supporters ran amok in Norton yesterday, battering supporters of prominent politician Temba Mliswa and fighting running battles with police — in barbaric scenes which turned the usually sleepy dormitory town into a war zone. The chaotic scenes, which left scores of people badly injured and forced Mliswa to cancel…
HARARE – In the latest crisis to hit the country’s dying health sector, which is reeling from poor funding, major hospitals have run of out of critical painkillers which are used in surgical operations on women in labour. The dire shortages of pethidine come after many of Zimbabwe’s major hospitals, including Harare Central, recently suspended…
HARARE – Opposition MPs last week raised the red flag on Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko and other Cabinet ministers who are in the habit of bunking Parliament business, calling for them to be charged with contempt of Parliament. In the wake of a corruption scandal that has sucked top government ministers, opposition MPs were looking…
HARARE – The devastating effects of the El Nino-induced drought are now being felt across the country with residents and officials warning of a potential national disaster if the critical water situation is not dealt with. There are fears that Zimbabwe could slide back to the 2008/2009 period when a cholera outbreak killed more than…
HARARE – Allies of under-siege Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo — who is facing a slew of damaging corruption charges — have hit back at the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), declaring defiantly that they will continue to use State resources in service of the country, President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF. The declaration comes as…
HARARE – Labour and Social Welfare minister Prisca Mupfumira has controversially warned starving citizens in Norton that they risk missing out on food aid if they stay outside Zanu PF structures — all this coming days before the constituency holds a keenly-contested by-election. Mupfumira’s comments sharply contradict her letter to the United Nations Children’s Fund…
HARARE – Anti-President Robert Mugabe activists — including exiled musician Thomas Mapfumo are next week headed for the United Kingdom (UK) where they will next week, mobilise Diasporans to bring back the troubled southern African nation into the spotlight. This comes as pro-democracy activists are now devising new strategies to confront 92-year-old Mugabe — Zimbabwe’s…
HARARE – While it is well and good for opposition political parties uniting under the banner National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) to confront the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) on both the software/technical and hardware issues of the forthcoming crunch 2018 harmonised election, Nera must instead expend its energies on destroying the massive wall of fear…
HARARE – Appointment of board members to State-owned enterprises must be subjected to vetting by Parliament to avoid nepotism and incompetence, National Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda said. Curiously, his remarks come on the back of an outrage over the appointment of President Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law, Simba Chikore, as chief operations officer of national airline, Air…
