June 2019

© UNITED African National Congress (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa has said political dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and multiple fringe opposition parties is not going to yield anything. [GoogleAd] Muzorewa told the Daily News the dialogue will not change anything. “This dialogue is a political filibuster. Mnangagwa has said ‘tinongotonga, tichingotonga imi muchingovukura (we will…

© A BRITISH safari boss is charging callous trophy hunters thousands of pounds to kill lions that have been bred in captivity, [GoogleAd] The Mail on Sunday has revealed.Gruesome photographs show Alex Goss posing beside the bodies of two lions after they were slaughtered during hunts in South Africa. He is believed to be the…

© FORMER Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) board chairperson Albert Mugabe wrote a letter to CBZ Bank guaranteeing a private mortgage facility for the parastatal’s chief executive officer without a board resolution, a court heard last week. [GoogleAd] Mugabe is accused of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly wrote to CBZ Bank misrepresenting that…

© REVELATIONS by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he wishes to be succeeded by a younger person have thrown wide open his succession, which many believed was a closed chapter. [GoogleAd] Speaking on a listener-based programme on State-owned Capitalk FM called “Catching up with ED” last week, the 76-year-old Zanu PF leader intimated that he should…

© VICE President Constantino Chiwenga’s prolonged absence from the public glare should be a source of major concern, especially in view of the enormity of the challenges facing the country, analysts have said. [GoogleAd] Chiwenga has been in-and-out of office since his appointment as VP in 2017 due to ill-health. In October, government said the…

© Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure appeared in court yesterday after he violated his bail conditions. [GoogleAd] Masaraure is on remand on allegations of plotting to topple a constitutionally-elected government by urging people to protest against fuel hikes in January. Harare provincial magistrate Barbra Mateko remanded Masaraure in custody to…

© THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) lacks the wherewithal to effectively deal with graft in both private and public institutions owing to a myriad of challenges, including paucity of resources and absence of a strong legal instrument, among others, aspiring commissioners of the anti-graft body have said. [GoogleAd] While corruption has been singled out as…

© GOVERNMENT will this year buy 200 000 metric tonnes of wheat in order to end bread shortages, deputy Agriculture minister Vangelis Haritatos has said. [GoogleAd] Haritatos told Senators last week that the government will soon end bread shortages. “We have been importing wheat for the past few years and nothing has changed. For this year,…

© THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has finally put to rest the issue of having its clinics operate round the clock, declaring that it was an impossible task. [GoogleAd] This comes after some residents have in the past continuously petitioned city fathers demanding that the local authority’s clinics be available to residents 24 hours. So…