June 2018

HARARE – Both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa face major problems as the country’s national elections beckon — with dozens of disgruntled former Cabinet ministers and MPs from their respective parties staging a rebellion by registering to contest the make-or-break polls as independents. This comes after the country’s two biggest political parties…

BULAWAYO – ZAPU leader and former Home Affairs minister Dumiso Dabengwa yesterday gave MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa a huge lift when he announced a deal to join the country’s biggest opposition grouping. This came hardly a day after Chamisa suffered a huge blow in his last ditch attempts to persuade rival leaders to…

HARARE – At least 100 000 people have been struck off the final voters’ roll which the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) unveiled yesterday. Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Zec chairperson Priscilla Chigumba said those who were excluded from the voters’ roll include the deceased, those with issues with their national identity (ID) cards and some…

HARARE – The MDC Alliance has tabled a demand that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) should ensure ballot papers for the forthcoming presidential election have names arranged in alphabetical order beginning with surnames. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, on Thursday successfully filed his nomination papers to contest as the ruling party’s presidential candidate…

HARARE – A Harare magistrate has dismissed a case in which Patience Chivasa had attempted to have a South African businessman Dharmesh Nagar convicted on false charges of fraud and forgery. According to information at hand, the two entered into a Zanu PF party-regalia supply deal and after which confirmation orders were issued, and a…

HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Samuel Undenge, who is facing a litany of charges at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, temporarily lost his freedom mid-this week when he was arrested for defaulting payment of child support. The maintenance was due to the child he had with his first wife Angeline. The former minister of Energy was…