HARARE – President Emmerson Emmerson Mnangagwa’s claims that Zimbabwe has earned foreign direct investment (FDI) commitments totalling $3 billion over the past 100 days, must be properly put into perspective, analysts have said. Financial research firm Equity Axis said in terms of actual numbers, Zimbabwe received FDI of just half a billion dollars in 2017…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has appointed Utoile Silaigwana as the acting chief elections officer while the hunt for a substantive office holder gets underway. This comes after Zec cut ties with its chief elections officer, Constance Chigwamba, after she fell out of favour with commissioners at the electoral management body. Zec commissioner…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of “disregard of truth” and refusing to take responsibility for political killings, torture, and abductions by government security forces and the ruling Zanu PF during and after the presidential election run-off in 2008. In an interview with the authoritative The Economist, Mnangagwa denied that previous elections were…
BULAWAYO – Authorities arrested three top MDC officials and 16 party youths in response to intra-party violence that erupted at the local party headquarters last weekend. MDC provincial chairperson Gift Banda, youth chair Mlandu Ncube and 16 other party youths were picked up by police over their alleged involvement in the bloody clashes between allies…
HARARE – Legislators across the political divide yesterday said more needs to be done for the country to have credible elections. Debate the Electoral Amendment Bill, MPs said the Bill is very shallow as it is not addressing the controversial issues on elections. It was the Second Reading debate. The Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs…
HARARE – Mhiripiri Bus Company owner Mathius Mhiripiri, 60, was arraigned before the courts yesterday charged with raping his 17-year-old niece at gun point. He appeared before Harare magistrate Tilda Mazhande and was released on $200 bail. Mhiripiri will be back in the dock on March 23 pending finalisation of investigations into the matter. Prosecutor…
BULAWAYO – MDC Alliance spokesperson Welshman Ncube has torn into People’s Rainbow Coalition (PRC) president Joice Mujuru, accusing her of perfidiousness over opposition coalition to face Zanu PF in the forthcoming elections. A seething Ncube this week told Southern News that Mujuru’s coalition remarks at the late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai’s funeral should be taken…
HARARE – A Norton man yesterday confessed to murdering his wife in cold blood before burying the body in a disused toilet pit at his house. Lenon Mangwiro, 29, reportedly wrapped the woman’s body in a blanket and placed it in a toilet pit before stashing layers of maize cobs on top. The body was…
HARARE – Senior Assistant Commissioner Stephen Mutamba has been appointed the new officer commanding Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Law and Order Section in Harare. He takes over from Senior Assistant Commissioner Godfrey Munyonga, who was relieved of his duties along with 10 other high-ranking ZRP officers. The senior police officers were sent packing…
HARARE – A Mufakose man, Kundishora Gava, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly murdering his girlfriend and dumping the body at railway lines behind Bhadhela Wholesalers in Mbare, Harare. The court heard that on September 27, the now deceased was at Fly High Bar soliciting for clients for the purposes of prostitution. It was alleged…
