HARARE – Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s trip to South Africa where he is seeking treatment for an undisclosed ailment sparked outrage yesterday, coming at a time government has aggravated the dire situation in the health sector by dismissing nurses who downed their tools on April 16 over poor working conditions. Mohadi quietly slipped to neighbouring…
HARARE – Chimurenga music icon Thomas Mapfumo has said he would want to bring both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his opposition challenger Nelson Chamisa to persuade them to preach unity and peaceful co-existence ahead of elections. Addressing the media in the capital yesterday ahead of his homecoming gig next week, Mapfumo said while he was…
HARARE – Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, former US President Jimmy Carter and other prominent figures have encouraged all political actors in Zimbabwe to deliver integrity and transparency across the country’s transition, including a level playing field ahead of the upcoming elections. Annan, Carter and Nelson Mandela’s wife, Graca Machel, are part of a group…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF politburo member Daniel Shumba has said he will launch his opposition party the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) next week in Chitungwiza. Shumba dismissed his former allies President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ex-president Robert Mugabe as damaged goods and said he was confident of winning the elections. The former Masvingo Central legislator…
BULAWAYO – MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora and human rights activist Linda Masarira are expected to participate at the extraordinary congress of a breakaway MDC faction led by expelled deputy president Thokozani Khupe. According to a list of contestants seen by this paper, a number of candidates eyeing top posts will battle it out at the…
HARARE – Government has slashed the cost of vehicle licence plates by 50 percent to contribute towards government policy on ease-of-doing business. This follows years of outcry from motorists over the high cost of paying licences despite the use of inexpensive aluminium that is used to produce them. Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries had also raised…
HARARE – A South Africa-based man, 35, has been charged with sodomising his eight-month-old baby. The court heard that in 2016, the man lost sexual appetite for his wife and drew closer to his son. It was alleged that the mother would notice cracks on her son’s anus while bathing him. When she inquired from…
HARARE – Two more suspected armed robbers who were involved in a shoot-out with police officers that claimed the life of one civilian have appeared in court. Pias Sibanda and Arnold Mpofu appeared before Harare magistrate Tilda Mazhande facing armed robbery charges. They were detained in police custody pending apprehension of their accomplices believed to…
HARARE – A 42-year-old Harare man who sexually violated his 11-year-old daughter following his wife’s death has appeared in court. The man (name withheld) was charged with rape when he appeared before Harare magistrate Tilda Mazhande. He was remanded in custody to April 30, and advised to approach the High Court for bail because he…
HARARE – Expelled MDC deputy president Thokozani Khupe has commenced a multiplicity of actions in the High Court and Constitutional Court (Con-Court) in her desperate bid to dethrone Nelson Chamisa whose entry in the presidential race as the new MDC leader has ignited interest in the impending polls. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
