HARARE – The Tendai Biti-led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has castigated government over its delay in converting a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ruling on child marriages into law, over a year after the judgment was handed down. This comes after the Con-Court last year outlawed the marriage of persons below the age of 18, following an…
HARARE – Liberation war musician Dickson Chingaira, aka Cde Chinx, could make history by becoming the first musician to be declared a national hero. Cde Chinx succumbed to prostate cancer last Friday and died at the age of 62. By yesterday evening, there was no news on what President Robert Mugabe and his party might…
HARARE – Barely two days after being attacked during the Mutare leg of President Robert Mugabe’s youth interface rallies for allegedly fomenting indiscipline, Zimdancehall star Soul Jah Love has responded in a song. The Pamamonya Ipapo hit-maker was publicly dressed down by Zanu PF national youth commissar, Innocent Hamandishe, who described him as a nonentity….
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s late Vice President, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, is a man credited with shaping the country’s economic and social fibre. So much has been said about his exploits before, during, and after the country’s liberation struggle against white colonial rule. One of his many exploits was the idea of setting up the Ekusileni Medical…
HARARE – The Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) has begun the hunt for the new Prosecutor-General (PG) after it issued a notice inviting nominations for candidates seeking to fill one of the country’s coveted but difficult jobs within the legal fraternity. This comes as there is already serious jockeying for the PG’s post, hardly two weeks…
HARARE – Liberation war leaders should step aside without delay and allow new leadership of Zimbabwe whose political and economic implosion is worsening, liberation war icon Rugare Gumbo (pictured) has said. Gumbo, who is now an elder in the opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) having been kicked out of Zanu PF in 2014 on charges…
HARARE – Work towards the rehabilitation of the country’s main border posts will now be handled exclusively by the ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, without the involvement of the ministry of Local Government and National Housing, headed by Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. The change in administrative functions marks yet another setback…
HARARE – Politicians, particularly the elite in Zanu PF, are proving to be a thorn in the flesh for the financial services sector, with hardly a month passing without the Deputy Sheriff being called in to put assets of defaulting politicians under the hammer in order to offset their non-performing loans (NPLs). The trend has,…
HARARE – Millions of Zimbabweans are likely going to fail to vote in next year’s elections, owing to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)’s demand for people to produce proof of residence to register to vote. Many Zimbabweans are not landlords and over the years several unregistered suburbs have emerged around Harare, which might limit the…
HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reign in the ruling Zanu PF party amid claims that it is frog-marching people to its rallies ahead of the 2018 crucial elections. Through its spokesperson Obert Gutu, the party said that the idea of frog-marching people to rallies is…
