HARARE – A social media blogger, who had threatened to lift the lid on Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba’s private life seems to be backtracking on the threatened exposé. Journalist Edmund Kudzayi, who is now a fierce critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, had claimed he will expose Chigumba’salleged shenanigans on micro blogging site,…
HARARE – Harare magistrate Estere Chivasa has referred former Midlands minister of State Jaison Machaya to Gokwe Magistrates’ Court for a possible furnishing of a trial date on August 6. Machaya appeared before Chivasa yesterday facing charges of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly demanded 1 000 residential stands from Gokwe Town Council, which…
HARARE – Cleopas Mugomba, an alleged husband to a High Court judge, has been arraigned before the Harare Magistrate’s Court facing charges of raping a house helper. The victim claims Mugomba is the husband to a judge (name withheld) who was her employer at the time the rape occurred, according to State papers. The 44-year-old…
HARARE – Harare City Council has forwarded the names of three candidates to be considered for the position of town clerk to the Local Government Board (LGB). Leading the trio is current acting town clerk Hosea Chisango, who scored 1 052 points followed by ex-Zimra finance director Robert Mangwiro with 903 points and University of…
HARARE – Civic society groups and the main opposition coalition — the MDC Alliance — are protesting the presidential ballot paper outline, which has been designed in a manner that gives President Emmerson Mnangagwa a prime position ahead of his main rival. [Adz]
WASHINGTON – Newly released US intelligence documents showed that the FBI continued to investigate South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela as a potential “communist menace” even after his release from prison in 1990, a Washington-based group which sued to obtain the papers said. Property of the People, which released the papers to mark 100 years…
NIGERIA – Nigerian police have arrested eight members of the armed group Boko Haram who were involved in the 2014 abduction of more than 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, an official said. The men “confessed to having participated actively in the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls,” police commissioner Damian Chukwu told journalists on…
HARARE – In a welcome development, war veterans have now joined the military in saying on the record that they will not stand in the way of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa if he defeats President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the crunch July 30 polls. This comes as the run-up to the polls has been marred by…
HARARE – The opposition political parties that have been feuding with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) are pinning their hopes on the visiting Elders group to help them make headway on a number of demands they want met before elections are held at the end of the month. Zimbabwe holds watershed national harmonised elections on…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said it was willing to respond to MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa’s demands for reforms he has said were vital for a credible vote this month at an appropriate time. This comes after Chamisa told journalist on Tuesday that he has given Zec one week for negotiations,…
