July 2019

© ZIMBABWEANS in London on Wednesday demonstrated against Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, pictured, who is in London, United Kingdom on a four-day re-engagement programme to strengthen bilateral relations and to woo investment into the country. The minister is expected to attend the Global Conference for Media Freedom, which ends on Sunday. [GoogleAd] The demonstrators…

© AMIDST a growing list of colleges and schools tainted with examination leaks, Kwekwe Polytechnic has found itself embroiled in a bitter feud with 93 students who have approached the High Court seeking to overturn a decision to withhold their results. This followed the college’s decision to withhold results and order a re-sit following a…

© MDC Youth Assembly secretary general Gift Ostallos Siziba appeared in court yesterday on charges of inciting public violence under heavy police presence. Nearly a dozen riot police officers armed with button sticks stood guard outside the courtroom where Siziba appeared before deputy chief magistrate Elijah Makomo. [GoogleAd] Outside the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, more riot…

THE battle between former president Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace and their ex-general manager Stanley Nhari is raging on after the manager who is demanding a whopping $756 000 from the former first family filed a Supreme Court appeal. Nhari filed a Supreme Court in a matter that will be heard today, after losing the…

PROMINENT Bulawayo activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube will next week lead a three-hour peaceful demonstration as part of highlighting the plight of an ordinary suffering citizen as the economy continues to tank. Ngulube who is famous for leading various demonstrations in the city, yesterday said the protest has been slated for Wednesday, July 17 in the…

THE battle for the control of the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) took a new twist when a faction of the MDC councillors yesterday claimed to have suspended Town Clerk Christopher Dube over the city’s water crisis. This followed reports that Dube has been frustrating moves by the faction to usurp the power of the local…

© FLOUR supply to the baking industry from wheat millers has started to improve and now set at 500 metric tonnes per day of flour. Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara said this is equivalent to 1 million loaves against a national daily demand of 1,4 million loaves. “We are, therefore, calling…

© ZIMBABWE will need US$34 billion to restore its infrastructure to proper working condition, the Africa Development Bank (ADB) 2019 Infrastructure Flagship Report has revealed. Prepared by the bank group on behalf of the government, the report was presented yesterday at the Meikles Hotel in Harare by AfDB lead economist George Auma Kararach at a…

© ZIMBABWE is among the 14 countries yet to ratify the African Union (AU) protocol instituting the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Court). This was revealed at a recent human rights training in Addis Abba, Ethiopia. The Court is a continental judicial body, resident in Tanzania, established by African countries to ensure…