August 2018

HARARE – United States President Donald Trump’s administration is ratcheting up pressure on embattled President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa by demanding that he institutes a transparent and credible investigation into the August 1 killing of at least six protesters in Harare. Speaking after meeting Mnangagwa in the capital on Wednesday, US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols, said…

HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s election petition, challenging results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been set down for hearing next week Wednesday. Chamisa, who is disputing Zec’s declaration of Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner of the July 30 presidential election in the Constitutional Court (Con-Court), has now…

HARARE – Chief Justice Luke Malaba has declared that Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika and Daniel Shumba of the United Democratic Alliance will not be allowed to make their presentations or submit their petitions. Malaba reportedly cited the expiration of the deadline during a Case Management Conference held at his Chambers yesterday. This means…

HARARE – Chief Justice Luke Malaba has been accused of acting illegally by increasing application fees for those wishing to challenge the outcome of National Assembly elections, a legal watchdog has said. This comes after Malaba increased the application fee from $500 to $2 000 for those wishing to challenge the National Assembly election results…

HARARE – Amnesty International (AI) is ratcheting up pressure on the Zimbabwean government to conclude investigation into the disappearance of journalist-cum-political and human rights activist Itai Dzamara. AI’s newly-elected leader Kumi Naidoo of South Africa pledged on Wednesday that his first port of call into his term of office would be writing to whoever will…

HARARE – Police on Thursday charged Costa Machingauta, an opposition MDC Alliance party legislator for Budiriro constituency with public violence for allegedly participating in protests staged over delays in announcing the results of harmonised elections. Machingauta, who is represented by Tarisai Mutangi of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights was summoned to report at Law and…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s civil society has asked the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to discuss Zimbabwe’s military-led post-election reprisals that have led to democratic regression and the contestations around the legitimacy and accuracy of the election results at a summit of the regional bloc in the Namibian capital Windhoek today. Southern Africa’s regional body is…

HARARE – The Harare City Junior Council (HCJC), in association with the One-Soul Foundation will conduct the draw for the Million Pads Campaign Raffle on Friday next week at Town House at 10:00hrs. The initiative is meant to raise awareness as well as providing sanitary wear in rural and urban settings. Event organisers have been…

HARARE – The Zanu PF women’s league has conveyed its condolences to the Mathuthu family on the passing on of former deputy Information minister Thokozile Mathuthu at the age of 61. In a statement, the wing’s secretary Mabel Chinomona said Mathuthu was a hardworking and dedicated cadre who played a pivotal role during and after…

HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC) is experiencing technical glitches with its prepaid electronic personal parking meters, otherwise known as Smart Park. According to City Parking, HCC’s parking venture, the technical challenges have affected the reloading of the meters, prompting it to advise motorists to use prepaid cards until the problem has been rectified….