THE country is expecting a rapid economic growth on the back of a bumper harvest this season, Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, has said. The country is expecting grain production of between 2,5 and 2,8 million metric tonnes driven by improved rainfall and increased inputs supply through the government-initiated Pfumvudza agriculture concept. Speaking…
THE imminent return of the national youth service training programme has triggered jitters among many in the opposition who have bad memories of the project’s cadets. The programme’s recruits were infamously referred to as “Green Bombers” during their reign of terror between 2001 and 2009, as the late former president Robert Mugabe battled to retain…
ZANU PF and MDC MPs have expressed divergent views regarding Constitution Amendment Bill No. 2, which will see, among other things, the dropping of the presidential running mate clause ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. Debating the proposed law in the National Assembly on Tuesday, MDC MPs criticised the bill gazetted in December 2019, saying…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has raised fears that the insurgency in Mozambique could spill over into Zimbabwe — urging local communities, especially those in Manicaland, to be on high alert. Speaking before yesterday’s Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare, Mnangagwa also said his government was working with Mozambican authorities, through the Southern African Development Community (Sadc),…
THE High Court has nullified the recall from Parliament of MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti, pictured, and five others after ruling that Benjamin Rukanda is not the bona fide People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general. Rukanda caused the recall of Biti together with William Madzimure, Settlement Chikwinya, Kucaca Ivumile Phulu, Sichelesile Mahlangu, and Regai Tsunga…
A STUDENT at the Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) has filed a High Court application demanding that the government comes up with a code of conduct for vice presidents and ministers. In court papers, Nyasha Chiramba cited Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney General Prince Machaya as the respondents. Chiramba filed his application on the…
MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and activist Cecilia Chimbiri, who are accused of violating Covid-19 regulations, have again been denied bail. The duo had made a new application for bail on changed circumstances but Harare magistrate Denis Mangosi ruled that nothing has changed to warrant granting them bail. Mamombe and Chimbiri were arrested in March…
SINCE coronavirus hit our shores in March last year, cases of domestic violence have been on an alarming increase in the country. Several women and young girls have been sexually molested. Recently, Women Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni painted a gruesome picture in Parliament. She told the stunned august House that more than 2 000 minors…
CABINET yesterday approved the reintroduction of the National Youth Service training programme, which was previously accused of being behind a Zanu PF militia that terrorised opposition members. The programme, whose cadets were commonly referred to as green bombers due to their conspicuous uniform, were introduced in 2000 by the late former Youth minister and Zanu…
IN A sign that Harare may be hardening its stance towards the West, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says meaningful re-engagement with Washington and Brussels will only happen when they accept that there will be no reversal of Zimbabwe’s land reform programme. In tidbits of his pre-recorded Independence speech which were made public yesterday by Information permanent…
