HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru says she “regrets” that she had not spoken out earlier against the excesses of President Robert Mugabe, Zanu PF and the government while she was still in the ruling party. Addressing civil society organisations in Bulawayo last week, Mujuru also laid the blame for the post-independence Gukurahundi massacres…
HARARE – The Zanu PF Mashonaland East provincial executive has summoned Energy Mutodi — an avowed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa ally — to appear before a disciplinary committee. The musician-cum-politician faces a slew of charges, including undermining congress resolutions. He stands accused of going against the party’s December 2016 Masvingo annual congress resolution to declare…
HARARE – Internationally-acclaimed musician Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi has been forced to cancel his United States of America tour, after being denied a visa at the US Embassy in Harare as his shows coincide with a summit of musicians from Sudan, Somalia, and Libya — countries whose citizens have been barred from visiting the US by…
HARARE – Senators have urged the Foreign Affairs ministry to recall ambassadors, as government is struggling to pay them, and deploy low level diplomats. Zimbabwe’s diplomats are living rough as the cash-strapped President Robert Mugabe administration has for months been failing to pay its embassies staff and other operational costs, including rentals. The country has…
HARARE – Government claims it has started a process to take action over damning expose’s of blatant theft of millions by ministers and other government bureaucrats made in comptroller and auditor-general Mildred Chiri’s reports. This comes as Chiri has routinely issued adverse reports on abuse of public funds, but they have gone largely ignored with…
HARARE – Government is in the process of setting up a special bank account for the health levy introduced in the 2017 budget. Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, proposed to introduce a health fund levy of 5 cents for every dollar of airtime and mobile data, under the theme ‘‘Talk-Surf and Save a Life’’. The Treasury…
HARARE – A 22-year-old Zimbabwean graphic designer, Quentine Nyoni, has won a competition to design the logo for the African Union (AU) — a 54-member State continental body. Nyoni — whose logo will now be the official AU 2017 theme emblem — beat contenders from other African countries to bag $1 000 prize money. The…
HARARE – MDC Harare province youth secretary-general Denford Ngadziore appeared in court yesterday charged with convening an unsanctioned gathering in which he is accused of attempting a citizen arrest on Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo for an alleged $400 000 fraud. Ngadziore sought discharge at the close of the State case. The MDC…
HARARE – The detention of cleric and #ThisFlag campaign leader Evan Mawarire may trigger mass protests, a respected South African think-tank has claimed, with local analysts querying the claim. The Oxford-linked NKC African Economics (NKC) in its latest research instalment on Zimbabwe said the country’s draconian security establishment has apparently failed to grasp that protests…
HARARE – Government’s plan to build a pipeline from the Zambezi River to ease water shortages in Matabeleland was put off to complete work on the Tokwe-Mukorsi Dam. The Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP) is an ambitious project that seeks to end the perennial water shortages bedevilling Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo by bringing water…
