HARARE – Notwithstanding the rumpus in their camp over the lack of progress in consummating a coalition, opposition parties have said they are prepared for next year’s synchronised polls, even if President Robert Mugabe is to proclaim election dates earlier than expected. Mugabe is expected to proclaim election dates much earlier than had been expected…
HARARE – Police yesterday said they had not cleared today’s planned demonstration by MDC youths — setting up a potentially explosive confrontation with the organisers who said they will resist any attempts to stop them from holding their protest march. “I don’t know about the demonstration, we never cleared it,” police spokesperson senior assistant commissioner…
HARARE – Forrmer Cabinet minister and leader of the smaller MDC Welshman Ncube has hinted on his preferred choice for the mooted grand coalition — telling the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was fit to represent Zimbabwe’s opposition in next year’s watershed elections. Ncube ended 12 years of frosty relations…
HARARE – Prominent tycoon John Bredenkamp is set to lose a high-end vehicle due to his long standing $3, 8 million debt to his former friend and businessman Yakub Ibrahim Mohammed. Bredenkamp was in 2016 ordered by the High Court to pay back the cash he borrowed from Mohammed between 2000 and 2001 by judge…
HARARE – National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru is caught between joining a conglomeration of smaller parties under Coalition of Democrats (Code) or concentrate on covering ground under a pact signed with MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai. Mujuru’s spokesperson Gift Nyandoro said the NPP was still consulting, insisting she was committed to “collective leadership”. “The…
HARARE – Chinese diamond mining firm Anjin Investments (Anjin), which was booted out of the Marange mining fields last year, has approached the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) demanding reinstatement. The application was made after Mines minister Walter Chidakwa ordered diamond mining firms to stop operations in February last year and leave the Marange fields as their…
From industrial to church hub ONCE regarded as the country’s industrial hub, Zimbabwe’s second largest city has suffered what probably ranks as the worst job carnage, occasioned by the deteriorating economic situation that has led to seismic company closures, with churches now occupying buildings that used to be a hive of industrial activity. The city…
HARARE – Liquidator of the collapsed Allied Bank, Cecil Madondo, who is being sued by one of the creditors seeking to recover money locked in the financial institution, has said the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) must provide answers to the bank’s creditors. Zimbabwe Amalgamated Housing Association (Zaha) is seeking to recover nearly $1,5 million locked…
LUSAKA – Zambia’s parliament on Tuesday approved a 90-day state of emergency decreed by President Edgar Lungu, a move that critics see as an effort to tighten his grip on power. Opposition lawmakers boycotted the vote by leaving the chamber, leaving only the 85 members of the president’s majority party to pass the measure. Lungu…
PANIPAT – Ever wonder where your clothes go after you discard them? In Western countries, when you donate clothing to charities via shops, collection bags, or clothing banks many are given to those in need or sold in charity shops to raise funds. But what happens to torn or damaged clothes, or items that no…
