BULAWAYO – Alliance for National Salvation (Ansa) president Moses Mzila-Ndlovu has sensationally claimed that a lot of those in the opposition are Zanu PF surrogates whose agenda is to perpetuate the ruling party’s stay in power. With over 100 political parties and 23 presidential candidates registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for the July…
EDITOR — Harare’s streets have become so dirty that it boggles the mind how the city fathers still want to refer to it as the Sunshine City. There is filth wherever you go, something we were not used to way back. The number of street vendors seems to increase by the day and night. The…
HARARE – Insurance giant Old Mutual Zimbabwe has liberalised its B Class shares that were previously open to trading among locals as part of the company’s indigenisation plan. In 2011, Old Mutual surrendered 25 percent of its issued shares to indigenous investors as a way of complying with Zimbabwe’s controversial Indigenisation laws. Under the scheme,…
HARARE – The Fifa 2018 World Cup tournament has been a boon for the uptake of Kwesé iflix, Econet Media’s recently launched video-on-demand service, which offers top sports and entertainment content on mobile phones, tablets and other multimedia platforms, everywhere — on the go. The service, which was launched in Zimbabwe just over three weeks…
HARARE – Dendera musician Tryson Chimbetu is going to officially unveil his latest project in Chipinge. The launch is scheduled for Dzonzayi Complex on June 30. Of late, rising musicians are launching their new albums in marginalised areas so as to attract sizable crowds. Last month, Gasa’s album launch which was held at Chinhoyi stadium…
BULAWAYO – An explosion rocked a star rally addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday, in a surprise development that is set to rattle an otherwise peaceful election campaign — the most peaceful the country has ever had since the 1960s. Mnangagwa’s campaign team has called the incident an assassination attempt on the 75-year-old former guerrilla…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) faces its sternest test to date as opposition political parties contesting next month’s polls have temporarily shelved their differences to demand a raft of reforms aimed at levelling the electoral playing field currently tilted in favour of Zanu PF. Zec has spurned demands for electoral reforms that are…
HARARE – The leader of Zimbabwe main opposition party, Nelson Chamisa, alighted from his car, grabbed a microphone and made a bold promise to scrap bond notes if he wins the July 30 presidential election to stem the worsening cash shortages and liquidity crunch. The intensifying cash shortages have been a major issue on the…
HARARE – The Nelson Chamisa led MDC said it is likely to expel its members who filed papers at the nomination court as independent candidates. In line with the law, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission had given a seven-day window, which expired on Friday, to those aspiring presidential candidates, legislators and councillors who wished to pull…
HARARE – The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Zimbabwe said it will deploy 44 long-term observers throughout the country for the July 30 election. “Observers will be present in the EU EOM mission outfit with the EU EOM logo,” the mission said in a statement. The observers will be sent off from…
