November 2016

HARARE – A self-styled spirit medium Nehanda Nyakasikana made a scene in court yesterday immediately after war veteran leaders were removed from remand. The ex-liberation war fighters were facing charges of insulting President Robert Mugabe. Nehanda Nyakasikana declared that spirits of fallen freedom fighters killed in an armed raid during the liberation struggle in Mozambique…

HARARE – A parliamentary panel yesterday sought public comments on a draft bill which seeks to legalise bond notes. The views of stakeholders are being sought by November 30 on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Amendment Bill, currently being scrutinised by a parliamentary committee. “…the portfolio committee on finance and economic development is hereby…

HARARE – Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday fumed at the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) as the once-popular minister’s image is being battered in a sprawling inquiry by the State anti-graft body. This comes after Zacc indicated that they are still pursuing several other corruption cases that threaten his political survival. Moyo is already under…

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s government is in the process of setting up special courts to deal with rampant corruption which has seen bigwigs being implicated in shady activities in recent months. This comes as the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (Zacc) has stepped up its fight against graft –hauling before the courts high profile politicians…

HARARE – Zimbabwe will not get funding from international lending institutions until it clears all its debts with creditors including the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB), Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. There was hope in President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government that lines of credit would now be opened after Zimbabwe cleared…

HARARE – The mad-scramble within President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF to control the frail and mysterious leader of a secretive religious sect, Madzibaba Wimbo, is intensifying — with the 94-year-old now living under 24-hour guard by soldiers armed to the teeth, who have made his shrine a no-go area. This comes as some of…

HARARE – Pro-democracy activists have vowed to continue holding protests against President Robert Mugabe and his under-fire government, despite increased State thuggery and human rights violations by security agents. This comes as Mugabe’s panicking government has cranked up its suppression of protests through police decrees outlawing mass actions, as well as increased deployments of security…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s pro-democracy groups have started to fracture, with anti-President Robert Mugabe civic groups crossing swords with an opposition political party over last week’s failed anti-bond notes demonstration. In a development that bodes ill for the crunch 2018 elections,  activist and Zimbabwe Women in Politics Alliance (Zwipa) leader Linda Masarira yesterday launched a scathing…

HARARE – People who eat too much of Zimbabwe’s staple sadza are more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes, according to the Zimbabwe Diabetic Association (ZDA). Contrary to widely-held belief that diabetes plagues people who consume large amounts of sugar, people who take too much starchy foods have a higher risk of suffering from diabetes,…