HARARE – The ruling party has all but shut its door on members of the Generation 40 (G40) faction who were given their marching orders towards the end of last year following a military intervention. At its 317th ordinary session in Harare yesterday, the Soviet-style politburo resolved that all expelled members of Zanu PF wishing…
HARARE – Suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice chancellor Levi Nyagura is still reporting for duty despite having been sent on paid leave pending the outcome of his court case. This emerged in an official communication from Thembinkosi Magwaliba, on behalf of other UZ Council members, to the council chairperson Buzawani Mothobi, in which the…
HARARE – Former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has said Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede is caught in a time warp, complicating the issue of registration documents in a move reminiscent of the colonial era. Dube, who is also the chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services, told the National…
HARARE – A 48-year-old father has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for having sex with his 15-year-old daughter. The man, who cannot be named, committed the offences between December 2016 and 2018, the Harare Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. The dad has been on anti-retroviral treatment since 2013 although his daughter had not been infected…
HARARE – The Ambrose Mutinhiri-led National Patriotic Front (NPF) yesterday registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). In its letter to Zec acting chief elections officer Utloile Silaigwana, the party said: “This is to notify you that we, the NPF, are a political party duly established by a constitution by the founders of the party…
HARARE – Workers at a farm outside Rusape are suing the police for alleged theft of property and abuse during an eviction raid. Government has since reversed the eviction, resulting in Lesbury Farm being returned to Darreyn Smart after he had been evicted from the farm in June last year, along with his employees….
HARARE – Respected South Africa-based economic research firm NKC African Economics (NKC) yesterday upgraded Zimbabwe’s sovereign credit rating or ability to borrow money for the first time in nearly 20 years, saying continued progress on economic and institutional reforms would boost the country’s growth potential. NKC is a Cape Town- based research firm that investigates…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called on all political parties to work together and exhibit the love and unity they showed during the funeral of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who died on February 14 aged 65. He had been suffering from colon cancer for at least two years, and was given…
HARARE – Legislators yesterday grilled Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi over government’s silence on the salary impasse at the Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL). HCCL, in which Zimbabwe’s government is the biggest shareholder with 37 percent shares, is the nation’s second largest coal producer and supplies coke to national electricity company Zesa….
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government should deliver a free and fair election this year if they want the United States to lift restrictive measures imposed on Zanu PF officials and their associated companies. It was not surprising that US President Donald Trump last week renewed the “restrictive measures” which were set to…
