HARARE – Police detective Joseph Nemaisa, who is facing assault charges, allegedly refused to sign a warned and cautioned statement in a bid to frustrate his prosecution over the case, a court heard yesterday. Nemaisa was summoned to appear before Mbare magistrate Sharon Rakafa following an incident in which he assaulted a Central Intelligence Organisation…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition yesterday named Nelson Chamisa to succeed Morgan Tsvangirai who died in South Africa on Wednesday, but some within the opposition rejected the choice. Chamisa, 40, was chosen to lead the country’s largest opposition party, which was thrown into crisis by the death of the former prime minister, who had been…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s death dominated news bulletins, radio airwaves and websites throughout the world yesterday as tributes poured in for a man seen as the most effective opposition leader in Zimbabwe since independence. The late 65-year-old, who has left a towering legacy, was pronounced dead on Wednesday in South Africa where he was undergoing…
Jonathan Moyo — A PEOPLE’S HERO inspires supporters & challenges detractors to make a better society. As such a hero, #MorganTsvangirai enabled deeply-divided Zimbabweans to see the link & difference between hard won #INDEPENDENCE & #DEMOCRACY; based on free, fair & credible elections. #RIPSave Patson Dzamara — The world, my world at least…Thank you our…
HARARE – Parliament has blasted Sakunda Holdings (Sakunda) for attempting to unduly influence the portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement from investigating Command Agriculture financing and belittling the legislature’s oversight role. This comes after Sakunda attempted to have the portfolio committee back off from its probe saying it must await the outcome of…
HARARE – Three Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) directors have been given the boot while four others have been forced into indefinite leave pending an audit of the examinations system as the examinations body announced 2017 Ordinary Level results will be out by February 23. The Zimsec board rang the changes yesterday following outrage over…
HARARE – The MDC National Council has appointed Nelson Chamisa as the party’s acting president following the death of its founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai, 65, died in South Africa on Wednesday after a long battle with colon cancer. Chamisa, 40, was one of his three deputies. [Adz]
WASHINGTON – An adult film star who has been embroiled in allegations of an affair with President Donald Trump is free to tell her story, her manager has said. Stormy Daniels is no longer bound by a non-disclosure contract after Mr Trump’s lawyer admitted he paid her, manager Gina Rodriguez says. Mr Trump’s personal lawyer…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has reported it was now free of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu that hit the country between May and August last year. Poultry producer Lanark, a commercial farm 25km south of the capital Harare, was hit with the outbreak on its farm, which was quarantined and the site affected depleted of…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday deferred again to March 14 the hearing of the legal challenge to government’s decision to bar expatriate Zimbabweans from voting from their foreign bases in the forthcoming key 2018 vote. Chief Justice Luke Malaba on January 18 gave the green light to three Zimbabweans living outside the country…
