HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF, whose stone-broke government is struggling to pay civil servants their salaries and keep social services ticking, is to spend tens of millions of scarce dollars to buy 480 top-of-the-range off-road vehicles to be used in the party’s campaigns ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections. Contacted by…
HARARE – Under fire Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo, who is battling a slew of corruption charges, says he has great respect for his ex-Cabinet colleague Didymus Mutasa despite their political differences. Still locked in a bitter war with his rivals in a battle that has since turned tribal, Moyo is now seemingly…
HARARE – Parliament business could grind to a halt amid indications that the august House is owed close to $10 million in staff costs, transportation and accommodation dues by Treasury. National Assembly speaker, Jacob Mudenda, yesterday told parliamentarians at a pre-budget briefing seminar in the capital that the arrears had rolled from the seventh Parliament…
HARARE – Ahead of the eagerly anticipated October 22 Norton by-election, Zanu PF is now appealing to the notorious national youth service graduates, famously known as Border Gezis or green bombers, to lead its campaign through the homestretch. Stoking fears of chaos, after a girl was allegedly abducted and then stripped by alleged Zanu PF…
HARARE – Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has written a letter to the Supreme Court registrar demanding the bench, handling his appeal against a conviction on money laundering charges, to recuse itself after one of the judges expressed discomfort in dealing with the matter.“ During the (previous) hearing…Justice (Anne-Marie) Gowora expressed some discomfort in dealing with this…
HARARE – Convicted rapper Desmond “Stunner” Chideme was yesterday spared jail and instead will have to perform 210 hours of community service for negligently driving into four parked cars in the city centre resulting in two people sustaining injuries. Harare magistrate Nomsa Sabarauta considered that Chideme had pleaded guilty to charges of driving without a…
HARARE – Environment minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri says countries that control and manipulate lives of animals in zoos should not be allowed to decide the fate of those that have a wildlife heritage. An angry Muchinguri-Kashiri was speaking in the aftermath of the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to Cites in South Africa…
CHIPINGE – The MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai will declare Zanu founding father Ndabaningi Sithole a national hero once elected to govern, the party’s vice president Nelson Chamisa has said. After falling out with President Robert Mugabe during the country’s liberation war of the 1970s, Sithole was denied the hero status, something that has thus…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe on Monday joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Day Against the Death Penalty, Veritas has petitioned President Robert Mugabe calling for the abolishment of the death penalty. The organisation, which provides information on the work of Parliament and the country’s laws, wrote the letter last week. “We…respectfully request…
HARARE – Listed seed producer, Seed Co, says its venture into other African markets is now paying dividends following a slow-down in Zimbabwe’s economy. The group’s chief executive, Morgan Nzwere, yesterday said Seed Co’s regional expansion has helped the company to remain stable under a challenging economic environment. “If we had not diversified, I don’t know…
