HARARE – Superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi has been included in the new National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) board which was appointed by minister of Rural Development, Promotion and Preservation of National Culture and Heritage Abednico Ncube yesterday. The board will be chaired by former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Great Zimbabwe University Herbert Chimhundu. Other…
EDITOR — The recent announcement by Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni in Senate last week that police will use an advanced spike system will not solve the problems that we have on our roads. There is no need to go to town about such a system which only works for those vehicles that may…
HARARE – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has trashed chances of former Cabinet minister Nkosana Moyo — who last week announced that he will contest President Robert Mugabe in next year’s elections — saying he lacks the support needed to mount a strong challenge and win the polls. Addressing the media in the capital yesterday after…
HARARE – As the country gallops towards the eagerly-awaited 2018 national elections, calls for a woman to challenge President Robert Mugabe are getting louder with the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) yesterday saying the time is now ripe for the country to have a woman leader. This comes as a civic society group, Women4Women, and female…
HARARE – Former Information minister Jonathan Moyo has denied responsibility for the 2001 bomb attack at the print works of leading independent newspaper, the Daily News, which was seen by many as a government-backed campaign of intimidation. Moyo, now a Higher Education minister, said on micro-blogging site Twitter he had no involvement in the large…
HARARE – A consortium of church organisations yesterday launched a bold and Bible-based campaign to mobilise Christians to vote in the crucial 2018 elections, seeking to permanently put an end to the culture of violence, corruption and incompetence. The launch was held yesterday at the Zimbabwe Council of Churches headquarters in Harare. Comprising Zimbabwe Council…
HARARE – Grain millers have appealed to Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa to intervene and defer the implementation of the mandatory food fortification programme indefinitely. Government has decreed through Statutory Instrument 120 of 2016 that the public health intervention should have started July 1. It seeks to prevent micronutrient deficiencies by adding minute levels of vitamins…
HARARE – National People’s Party (NPP) president Joice Mujuru did not pitch up for a Coalition of Democrats (Code) signing ceremony yesterday. The former vice president was conspicuous by her absence when Code principals met in the capital for a ceremony that had been organised to officially receive her and her party as new members….
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition MDC will launch its manifesto and policy documents at its 18th anniversary in September, signalling a shift to the left to try to capitalise on voters’ concerns over rising unemployment. MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu said: “Preparations are going on very well and in the next few months, we shall be…
HARARE – Zimbabwe now resembles a war zone, with citizens’ movement curtailed by harassment at border posts and arbitrary stops at numerous roadblocks, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. “There are things that really frighten citizens, these things called spikes,” Tourism minister Walter Mzembi said during the launch of the Economic Development in Africa Report 2017…
