HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF will again use its two-thirds parliamentary majority to approve more constitutional amendments giving back wide-sweeping powers to the president, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. The changes come at the expense of MPs’ rights to oversee the government and will undo transitional clauses in a new Constitution adopted…
HARARE – The opposition MDC is close to re-uniting ahead of next year’s elections with leaders of the party’s offshoots, Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti retracing their footsteps back to Morgan Tsvangirai’s labour-backed party. With pressure piling on opposition parties to join forces if they are to entertain hopes of defeating President Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai,…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe sledged Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa for failing to acknowledge her while chanting the Zanu PF slogan and failing to display party regalia during a women’s league national assembly meeting last Thursday. The party’s new regalia, unveiled at the Masvingo annual conference in December, was designed by Grace…
HARARE – The Executive by-passed Parliament in giving fuel excise duty exemption to the controversial Dema Diesel Power Plant, a senior legislator has said. Sakunda, owned by Zanu PF benefactor Kuda Tagwirei, partnered President Robert Mugabe’s in-law Derrick Chikore, brother to Simba, who is married to the president’s daughter Bona, in the dodgy and costly…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is today expected to meet to deliberate on the fate of fraud-accused Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo, following claims by First Lady Grace Mugabe that the minister had no case to answer. Moyo has been under the cosh over the past few months following claims that…
HARARE – Zanu PF Harare province has said it is going to mobilise other provinces to support calls by First Lady Grace Mugabe that her ailing husband President Robert Mugabe “anoint” a successor. On Saturday, Grace repeated her calls for Mugabe, 93, to name his heir. Grace had earlier challenged her president husband at a…
HARARE – Scientific evidence shows that blood may have flown off the knife used to stab Mines ministry employee Betty Ranganai and on to the clothes of a man accused of murdering her, a Harare court heard yesterday. A microscopic amount of blood was found by investigators on the clothes of Phillimon Chivangu, 22, of…
HARARE – A United Methodist Church cleric accused of attempting to kill his lover’s husband got away with community service after being convicted of a lesser assault charge. Harare regional magistrate Temba Kuwanda convicted Elliot Chikwenjere after noting that the victim David Gwaradzimba endangered himself by jumping onto the car bonnet. Chikwenjere was slapped with…
HARARE – Last week, there was furore in the National Assembly after Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa pulled a shocker — highly esteemed auditor-general (AG) Mildred Chiri was stepping down. The Treasury chief, to the dismay of legislators across the political divide, went on to announce that Chiri was to be succeeded by long-serving Industrial Development…
HARARE – British tycoon Nicholas Van Hoogstraten says his investment vehicle — Messina Investments — notified the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) of its intention to buy out CFI Holdings minorities despite claims by the regulator that due processes were not followed. As the battle for control at the agro-industrial group escalates, Van Hoogstraten yesterday told…
