January 2018

MUTARE – Legislator for Dangamvura-Chikanga Isau Mupfumi has lambasted Mutare City Council for exhausting a $1,8 million Zinara emergency road fund allocation without completing the scheduled road repairs and upgrades. Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Joram Gumbo had innocently applauded the local authority for having exhausted its allocation to the last cent raising the ire…

HARARE – Opposition parties have been warned against taking Zanu PF for granted in the forthcoming general elections after it roped in the military elements within its ranks, hence making it stronger than ever before. Serving and retired members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) were among the most notable winners at an extraordinary congress…

HARARE – With this year’s harmonised elections on the horizon, political and social analysts are fearful that violence may once again erupt as we move towards election day. They believe the current Zanu PF government has been militarised and that the military will not allow the opposition to govern if it wins the elections. [GoogleAd]…

HARARE – Zimbabweans should guard against falling into the trap of having channels of expression concentrated in the hands of the few powerful elite in the country, media practitioners have warned. The warning comes against a background where State media houses have been issued with print, radio and television licences while radio licences have only…

HARARE – Zimbabwe must rejoin the Commonwealth as there are plenty of opportunities to resurrect the country’s economy, analysts and opposition parties have said.  The Commonwealth — whose nations represent nearly one-third of the world’s seven billion people — banned former president Robert Mugabe from its decision-making council in 2002, after he was accused of…