HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has called for an emergency meeting between senior Zimbabwean officials and their Pretoria counterparts after an orgy of anti-immigrant violence rocked South Africa yesterday, leaving tens of thousands of Zimbabweans and other foreigners in severe trauma. The violence, which occurred mainly around Pretoria, came days after the leader of a…
HARARE – In a major development that will give relief to thousands of motorists who complain about the random and unrelenting harassment at roadblocks, police have admitted that they have no right to force drivers to pay spot fines. This followed a High Court ruling on Wednesday which established that there was no law that…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader Joice Mujuru has said she will not apologise or retract the claims she made that her former allies Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo wanted to have sex with her. She said the two — who threatened to slap her with a $5 million lawsuit, if she does not…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s rural home district of Zvimba has controversially grabbed the largest amounts of money allocated to the Registrar General (RG) department, Parliament heard this week. The move — likely to cause shock in political and civil society circles — apparently confirms the skewed distribution of national resources in the country, with…
HARARE – Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) will in June at their annual summit adopt a far-reaching set of guidelines for elections. These include elements demanded by the Zimbabwe opposition, which will contest crucial general elections next year, such as equal access for all political parties to the State media and impartiality…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has warned President Robert Mugabe that he faces not only a united opposition in the 2018 elections, but also internal revolt within the ruling Zanu PF. The opposition leader’s comments are on the back of the nonagenarian leader boasting during his 93rd birthday interview that he would win the…
HARARE – Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa last night hosted his birthday celebrations in Harare with Fifa president Gianni Infantino as the guest of honour. Other Fifa delegates and various African football federation presidents also arrived in the capital last night to join the festivities. Although the gathering was styled as a “birthday party”, it was…
HARARE – Former Finance minister and now leader of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Tendai Biti, has warned that President Robert Mugabe’s unwillingness to groom a successor, as well as Zanu PF’s escalating tribal, factional and successions wars, could plunge the country into civil war. This comes after Mugabe said pointedly last week that…
HARARE – Outspoken former Zanu PF youth leader for Mashonaland Central Godfrey Tsenengamu — who is facing serious charges of attempting to subvert President Robert Mugabe’s government — was denied bail by a Harare magistrate yesterday. Tsenengamu was remanded in custody to March 9 and advised to apply for bail at the High Court by…
HARARE – Government must steeply hike spot fines to make them more punitive to stem road crime and carnage, police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri said yesterday. The police chief told the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development — which was touring the law enforcement agency’s transport management and computerisation centre at Chikurubi — that…
