HARARE – Old Mutual Zimbabwe (Old Mutual) says its profit after tax declined by 35 percent to $66 million for the half year to June 30, 2018 from $101,8 million achieved during the same period last year due to the impact of lower fair value gains on listed equities during the period under review. The…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe awaits the Constitutional Court (Con-Court)’s verdict on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s election petition challenging the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)’ s declaration of Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner of the July 30 Presidential election, the call for calm cannot be overemphasised. The country is clearly on the edge…
HARARE – In most politically mature nations, people vote around the issues candidates present during the election campaign period, including party manifestos. This suggests that people are free to make independent choices based on what they think about the different candidates who present themselves to them through manifestoes, party rallies and other platforms. What informs…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) will deliver its judgment tomorrow in an application in which MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is challenging President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win in the July 30 elections. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – The poll dispute between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa of the MDC Alliance is today entering a decisive phase whereby the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) will sit to hear both sides of the story before making its determination. In a deeply-polarised nation, the poll dispute has further divided Zimbabweans, while plunging its agro-based…
HARARE – A court application in which Misa Zimbabwe had sought to live stream today’s MDC Alliance petition hearing in the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has been thrown out. In dismissing the application, Chief Justice Luke Malaba said ZBC which has been given exclusive rights to broadcast the proceedings, has sufficient means to publicise the proceedings….
HARARE – Political activists Paddington Japajapa and Jim Kunaka were yesterday arraigned before the courts on allegations of inciting and participating in the violence that rocked Harare on August 1. Japajapa was represented by Simon Simango when he appeared before Harare magistrate Ruramai Chitumbura charged with incitement to commit public violence. He was released on…
HARARE – Warriors’ manager Wellington Mpandare, has accused government of taking a backseat by not helping them tie down British players of Zimbabwean descent who have been called in to join the squad. Zimbabwe face Congo Brazzaville next month in an African Cup of Nations Qualifier (Afcon) and coach Sunday Chidzambwa included in his 28-man…
HARARE – Suspected Zanu PF thugs allegedly raped an MDC Alliance polling agent in Buhera South before sodomising her husband. In an affidavit filed at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) by a medical doctor who attended to them, suspected Zanu PF agents went to the house of the polling agent on the night of August 3,…
HARARE – Independent Norton candidate Temba Mliswa was barred from sitting in the VIP tent housing government officials and Zanu PF’s politburo members during Thokozile Mathuthu’s burial at the National Heroes Acre. Mliswa, a former Zanu PF chairperson for Mashonaland West, immediately took to Twitter to express his bitterness. He said such exclusionary politics reflect…
