May 2021

PEOPLE in both urban and rural areas are living at the mercy of gun-toting individuals who are breaking into premises and making away with money and valuables. Week in week out, cases of gun crime and gun violence make the news, with the latest being an armed robbery at a supermarket in Bulawayo this past week….

THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC is struggling to pay its election agents who participated in the 2018 elections as well as party employees, with some claiming they have not received salaries for close to a year. This comes as one of the employees, Kudzanai Mashumba, who was MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe’s chief aide when she…

THE president of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe, Reverend Amon Madawo, pictured, has described the Supreme Court decision favouring the current leadership of the church as God’s victory. The Supreme Court upheld a High Court decision which annulled a 2018 meeting which purported to dismiss Madawo and replace him with Bishop Cossam Chiangwa….

FORMER deputy prime minister in the 2009 government of national unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara, says national unity is critical for Zimbabwe to move forward at full throttle. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) symposium on Thursday, which looked at recent constitutional changes, Mutambara said deep-seated political divisions were inhibiting the country’s development. At…

THE Supreme Court has settled the Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Zimbabwe (AFM) leadership battle after dismissing an appeal filed by faction leader Cossam Chiangwa in which he challenged a 2019 High Court order. In delivering their judgment, Supreme Court judges — Susan Mavangira, Lavender Makoni and Samuel Kudya — upheld High Court judge David…

THE government has banned face-to-face holiday lessons in schools in a bid to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus as the first term comes to an end next Friday. Schools, which will take a three-week break, are set to reopen on June 28.  However, in a circular to school heads, district and provincial education…

THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has once again filed another Supreme Court appeal challenging a High Court judgment which nixed the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office, following the release of the full ruling on Thursday. This comes as the JSC had initially filed an appeal based on a summarised judgment handed…