HARARE – Expelled Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elders — Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa — have threatened to sue the party’s interim leader Joice Mujuru (pictured) for allegedly making “defamatory” sexual remarks against them, unless she publicly apologises. A fortnight ago, Mujuru accused the pair of seeking to turn her into a sex slave, after…
BULAWAYO – Government said yesterday all of Matabeleland schools will be closed to students for two days due to President Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday bash set for Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (REPS) in Matobo on Saturday. The directive was issued by the Primary and Secondary Education ministry. It decreed schools to close today and tomorrow….
HARARE – Hospital doctors, who have been on strike for the second week running, have insisted they will not report for duty until they get an audience with the Finance ministry and their concerns addressed. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association president Edgar Munatsi told the Daily News that they no longer want to negotiate with the…
HARARE – The procurement of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits for the 2018 elections remains under the control of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with government only funding the process, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa told Parliament yesterday. Responding to a question during a debate, Mnangagwa — who also doubles up as Justice minister — said…
HARARE – Zanu PF has rubbished the European Union (EU)’s decision to renew sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace for another year, saying the move is “shameful and disgraceful”. The union, which also upheld sanctions on the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), announced in a statement that its council took the position…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has backed Zimbabwe’s adoption of the South African rand as its main currency. After ditching a worthless Zimbabwe dollar in 2009, the country has been using several currencies — United States (US) dollar, yuan and the rand, among other — along with the recently introduced bond notes, a currency surrogate…
HARARE – Activist cleric Phillip Mugadza — also facing charges of insulting people of a certain religion after prophesying that President Robert Mugabe will die on October 17 this year — appeared in court yesterday, as his trial for public nuisance commenced. He appeared before Harare magistrate Blessing Murwisi, represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human…
EDITOR — In as far as the government is doing a good job in distributing tractors, scotch carts and other agricultural inputs to farmers in most parts of the country, these implements are being abused by those who wield power here in Buhera. It is with a heavy heart that I write this letter as…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s government has given prescribed asset status (PAS) on two major energy deals, thus paving the way for the financing and construction of the key power projects with a combined 130 megawatts (MW) output of electricity. This also comes amid rumblings about the status and progress of one of the projects…
HARARE – Speaking to the ZBC in his ritual birthday interview last Friday, as powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe was roasting Zanu PF bigwigs in Buhera for dreaming about succeeding her husband, President Robert Mugabe banished for good the whispers within sections of the warring former liberation movement that she sometimes operates without his blessing….
