HARARE – Former Mines and Mining Development minister Walter Chidhakwa will appear in court on January 31, following the postponement of his case yesterday. Chidhakwa, 54, is currently out on $300 bail, granted by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. Sande ordered him to report once every Friday at Highlands Police Station, surrender his passport with the…
HARARE – MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe is under attack from the Bulawayo province that criticises her continued opposition to Morgan Tsvangirai’s plan for an opposition alliance to take on Emmerson Mnangagwa in the key presidential election this year. The MDC spokesperson for Bulawayo province Felix Mafa specifically takes on Khupe for continuing to oppose…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s electricity distributor Zesa Holdings (Zesa) is looking for third party vendors to sell pre-paid electricity meters in a move that could boost the earnings of micro-entrepreneurs countrywide. Zesa has transferred just over 570 000 of electricity consumers to the pre-paid meters and the number is set to grow to 800 000 by…
BULAWAYO – Zanu PF youth leader Magura Charumbira has made more enemies than friends in the short period President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been in charge. Charumbira became popular after he led a team of disgruntled Zanu PF youths that booed former first lady Grace Mugabe at White City Stadium during the party’s ninth youth interface…
HARARE – A man accused of undermining the authority of President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told the court that he was being threaten by unknown visitors in remand prison. Gastaff Kativhu, 46, allegedly entered the venue of the Zanu PF extraordinary congress in Harare and headed to the VIP tent while waving placards accusing Mnangagwa of…
HARARE – Last week, we published an exclusive story — which angered and disappointed many long-suffering Zimbabweans — that deposed president Robert Mugabe had been awarded a lavish and hefty package. Apart from a cool $10 million which the long-serving 93-year-old leader had been given following his forced resignation — President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a…
HARARE – Deposed president Robert Mugabe’s ex-helicopter pilot is asking President Emmerson Mnangagwa to help him reclaim his family home seized by the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) over a ZW$6,2 million aircraft deal that collapsed in 1997. The retired presidential wing commander, Stephen Jackson Chituku, who is still flying was granted a loan…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association blocked Castle Lager Premiership side Highlanders from holding their elections to find a new executive scheduled for early next month. Bosso were set to hold their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the last Sunday of this month while the elections were set to be held in the first week…
HARARE – Zimbabwe international Gerald Takwara hopes he will be a major influence at Ajax Cape Town after he was unveiled as the Urban Warriors’ latest signing yesterday. The former FC Platinum midfield enforcer completed his long-protracted move to Ikamva where he will join fellow countryman Tendai Ndoro. [GoogleAd] The former Tsholotsho player signed a…
HARARE – American journalist Martha O’Donovan, who was facing charges of subversion and insulting (now former) president Robert Mugabe on social media — was yesterday removed from remand by a Harare magistrate. This followed an application by O’Donovan’s lawyer Obey Shava for refusal of further remand at the last remand hearing in December when prosecutor…
