HARARE – The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has crafted a framework giving it a guideline on how to deal with the Gukurahundi issue, including issues of exhumations and reburials to pave way for national healing. Gukurahundi refers to the dark phase after the country’s independence in the 1980s, when the army turned against…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa was in no-show at an interface meeting with vendors in Harare yesterday. The event, which was organised by National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) chairperson Sten Zvorwadza, saw only a few informal traders pitching up, collecting Zanu PF T-shirts and leaving immediately after. Mnangagwa did not pitch up, and instead…
HARARE – National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) president Sten Zvorwadza was yesterday told to prioritise court business after he sought a postponement of his attempted arson trial to go and meet with President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Zvorwadza is being accused of threatening to burn down a local hotel during a demonstration against then vice president…
HARARE – A 40-MEMBER civil society grouping called the Election Situation Room (ESR) on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, publicised its findings on the political environment in Zimbabwe ahead of the harmonised 2018 elections scheduled for July 30. At a stakeholder briefing held in Harare on Tuesday, ESR said that its preelection statement contained the most…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Election Support Network has trained and will deploy over 6 500 observers in all the 1 958 local authority wards of Zimbabwe comprising static (polling station based observers), constituency and mobile observers. Zesn, a coalition of 36 nongovernmental organisations working on the promotion of democratic elections in Zimbabwe is observing the 2018…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa sensationally claimed yesterday that former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was killed by ruling Zanu PF functionaries. Tsvangirai died in February this year after a long battle with cancer. He had been diagnosed with the disease in 2016. Addressing party supporters in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza yesterday, Chamisa…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has spoken glowingly about the late MDC founding father Morgan Tsvangirai while mocking the former trade unionist’s successor — Nelson Chamisa — whom he is squaring up against at the watershed polls on Monday. [Adz]
HARARE – After a blistering start to the season, FC Platinum have come unstuck during a frustrating month of July in which they have failed to pick up a win in three straight Castle Lager Premiership matches. This is the first time the defending champions have failed to pick up a win in three consecutive…
HARARE – Gweru-based Brightwell Tendai Kadenge is now the fourth Zimbabwean to successfully complete the Fifa Master in Management, Law, and Humanities of Sport education course. The other Zimbabweans to have attained this highly-prestigious qualification are Fifa development officer for Africa, Solomon Madege and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) athletes’ engagement manager, Primrose Mhunduru. Kadenge together…
HARARE – Prince Edward School’s sports director, Dudzai Muhomba, who passed away in Harare earlier this week, was given a befitting send-off at Zororo Memorial Cemetery in Chitungwiza yesterday. The multi-talented sports coach and administrator passed on in Harare on Monday having been ill since April. He was 46 and leaves behind his wife and…
