HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC) might allow its employees to join other medical aid societies because the fees that are being charged by the Harare Municipal Medical Aid Society (HMMAS) are too steep. According to a report presented at the city’s Rapid Results Initiative workshop on Tuesday, HMMAS — owned by HCC —…
HARARE – There has been an outcry in Zimbabwe after the Coca-Cola Company changed the ingredients of the country’s iconic drink Mazoe. Over the last few weeks social media has been abuzz with complaints, as Zimbabweans registered their displeasure with the taste of Mazoe products bottled by Coca-Cola’s Zimbabwean franchise Schweppes Zimbabwe. The outcry, which…
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti has permanently banned UK-based charity Oxfam from operating in the country following allegations of sexual misconduct by its employees while working in the country in the aftermath of the devastating January 2010 earthquake. A government statement said on Wednesday that the action, which followed a temporary suspension in February, was taken because…
PRETORIA – EFF leader Julius Malema has warned of an “unled revolution” in South Africa, as black people “are worse off in democracy than they were under apartheid”. “If things are going the way they are, there will be a revolution in this country. There will be an unled revolution, and an unled revolution is…
HARARE – MDC Alliance boss Nelson Chamisa has suffered a major blow in his bid to form a winning, all-embracing grand coalition after other opposition leaders filed their papers at the Nomination Court yesterday to contest the youthful politician and President Mnangagwa in next month’s eagerly-anticipated presidential election. [Adz]
HARARE – A former Cabinet minister who was at the centre of Zanu PF’s power-retention strategies between 2000 and November 2017 has sensationally claimed that the ruling party has devised an elaborate plan to rig next month’s elections. Zanu PF reacted angrily to the allegations yesterday, dismissing them as “hogwash”. Jonathan Moyo, a former politburo…
HARARE – As the nomination court sits today, the chances are high that both President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF and Nelso-n Chamisa’s MDC Alliance will end up with multiple candidates contesting the same constituencies in next month’s eagerly-anticipated national elections. The impending chaos is a result of both major parties having failed to arrest…
HARARE – Former influential Zanu PF youth league leader Kudzanai Chipanga has dragged Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mutsvangwa to the High Court accusing her of illegally grabbing his farm and handing it over to a white farmer. Chipanga was among members of the G40 political faction allied to 94-year-old former President Robert Mugabe who…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday consoled the Lumbe family following the abduction and murder of their two-year-old child Professor by suspected Zanu PF activists following his father Rambai’s defection to the Joice Mujuru-led opposition National People’s Party (NPP). In a statement yesterday, Mnangagwa said the police must apprehend the murderers. “I am shocked and…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa will on Saturday officially open the 26th Session of the Child Parliament. The Zimbabwe Youth Council will coordinate and oversee the operation of the Junior Parliament, which serves as a leadership development and advocacy arm on children’s rights. Junior Parliament also seeks to facilitate participation of youths in governance issues….
