HARARE – Opposition leader Ambrose Mutinhiri has told an election observer team from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) that regional bodies should deploy military personnel to observe the forthcoming elections alleging over 5 000 soldiers have been deployed to rural areas. Mutinhiri, who leads the National Patriotic Front (NPF) and is a former brigadier…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party is a cult where one is safe as long as he/she remains part of the group and vilified the moment they jump ship, analysts have said. Several former Zanu PF officials have been disparaged by the party the moment they left, contrary to how they were glorified whilst…
HARARE – At a glimpse, Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands region seems lush and verdant. But a closer check depicts a land degraded by overgrazing, unsustainable cropping practices, deforestation and wild bush fires. Still, some plots teem with biodiversity; crops grow under the shades of banana; avocado and cassava trees while here and there, you find mango,…
HARARE – Five years after the African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) made recommendations on improving the state of the media in Zimbabwe, journalists and media practitioners are concerned that government is still to implement the envisaged media reforms. After the 2013 general elections, AUEOM made recommendations that were meant to complement media rights enshrined…
HARARE – Businessman Jayesh Shah has approached the High Court seeking to quash a court ruling forcing him to surrender to businessman Christopher Wesley Takura Tande title deeds to land earmarked for residential properties. Tande is the founder and executive chairperson of Equity Properties (Pvt) Ltd, which is currently developing the investment property at Lot…
HARARE – Robert Mugabe must never have imagined himself outside the Zimbabwean presidency. He was so drunk with power that his own family at some point actually thought Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans belonged to them. His SABC interview, organised by political flip-flopper Jealousy Mawarire, all but reflected how shocked Mugabe is to be out of power….
HARARE – At the risk of stating the obvious, the “ease of doing business” is an inherently political term. Not merely because President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is using the term in each and every one of his major speeches. Locally and internationally. It is a phrase that is always sweet music to the ears of global…
HARARE – The opening day of the 2018 Castle Lager Premiership was marred by confusion yesterday after ZPC Kariba refused to travel to Harare for their match against reigning champions FC Platinum which was scheduled for the National Sports Stadium. The Zimbabwe Power Company-owned side, which was supposed to be the home team, after their…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s military neutralised former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri and former Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Happyton Bonyongwe after they became a political threat by opposing the November soft coup that ousted Robert Mugabe, a comprehensive report on the military takeover says. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – It was Mark Twain who said it is always better to keep one’s mouth shut and let people think that you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt. Similarly, Jesus cautioned in the Book of Matthew that, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”. And so…
