HARARE – The chaotic manner in which Zanu PF selected its parliamentary candidates could cost the ruling party in Mashonaland East (Mash East) province where disgruntled supporters have threatened to vote for opposition candidates in the July 30 election. The problem is not only in Mash East, several disgruntled party supporters in various other provinces…
HARARE – The country’s pro-democratic movement has suffered a huge setback after one of the key funders of civic society groups championing rights and peace-building terminated its funding over noncompliance issues. United States Agency for International Development (USAid) has terminated its contract with the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights), Counselling Services Unit (CSU), the Election…
HARARE – Hearing of the dispute involving Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe over ownership of the MDC name, symbol and logo is expected to commence today at the High Court. The two’s legal counsels had last Friday, tentatively, agreed to postpone commencement of the trial to Sunday depending on the schedule of Thabani Mpofu, who…
HARARE – The Health ministry says it has injected the necessary funding to enable public health institutions to offer blood for free with effect from this month. This comes as the ministry scrapped user fees for blood accessed from public health institutions. The David Parirenyatwa-led ministry has injected nearly $7 million as a subsidy into…
HARARE – Harare Central Hospital — one of Zimbabwe’s major referral health institutions — has fixed its chemistry analyser machine, which tests blood samples among other, after it broke down nearly a fortnight ago, an official has said. The hospital, in dire straits due to collapsing antiquated infrastructure and shortage of professional staff, had stopped…
HARARE – Government has waived income tax for expatriate staff of World Vision Zimbabwe (WVZ) and projects financed by the United States (US) government. This follows provisions provided for under Statutory Instrument 127 of 2018 published in last Friday’s Government Gazette. According to the gazette, the exemption is provided for in the framework agreement, Zimbabwe…
HARARE – International aid agencies contributed $931 million towards effective humanitarian support to vulnerable Zimbabweans since 2016, the United Nations (UN) has said. The statistics were revealed at a meeting jointly convened by government and the UN in Harare last week to validate programme results achieved under the 2016-2020 Zimbabwe United Nations Development Assistance Framework…
HARARE – I have just finished reading an intriguing book by Steven Levitski, a well-known comparative political scientist. The 2002 book has given me very useful insights into Zimbabwe’s contemporary regime under President Emerson Mnangagwa. Apparently, Zimbabwe is neither a modern democracy nor a full time authoritarian regime. Mnangagwa is running a hybrid regime called…
HARARE – The worsening shortages of foreign currency, particularly the United States dollar, underline the mammoth task that government faces in its quest to make things work again. Part of the problem we face as a country is that when former president Robert Mugabe and the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai reached a political settlement…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) members must engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa directly on their offer to be part of his close security, Information minister Simon Khaya-Moyo has said. The offer is in the wake of a bomb attack that claimed two lives and seriously injured several others at Mnangagwa’s rally at…
