MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, has accused his opposition rivals of “hypocrisy”, “spreading hate on social media” and “doing nothing” to stop the passage of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 in Parliament. Addressing a media conference in Harare yesterday, the miffed opposition leader also said many of his detractors were trying to “score cheap political…
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, pictured, said the recent surge in child murders is worrisome and has appealed to the public to work together with law enforcement agents to stop the killings. Speaking in the National Assembly yesterday, Kazembe said the police were doing their best to stop the killings which were ritually-motivated in most…
ORGANISATION for Public Health Interventions and Developments (Ophid) has partnered various apostolic sect church leaders to raise awareness on behavioural change and the importance of taking medication among congregants living with HIV. This comes as a number of apostolic sect congregants have been abandoning their medication, amid claims they could miraculously get healed through prayers,…
PREPARATIONS by political parties for the 2023 national elections are gathering pace, with the ruling Zanu PF announcing at the weekend that it had embarked on a national restructuring exercise ahead of the fast approaching polls. At the same time, analysts said yesterday that the former liberation movement’s root and branch re-organisation exercise demonstrated how…
THE Senate yesterday overwhelmingly voted for the passage of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2, after 65 legislators voted in favour of it, while only 10 voted against it, as the opposition MDC once again found common ground with the ruling Zanu PF party. Out of the 80 senators in Parliament, Zanu PF currently has 53…
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded over 400 motor vehicles operating illegally and not registered with the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) in terms of the new regulations put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19. Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube, however, told journalists that reports that all personal vehicles or those belonging to a…
THE government has admitted that prices of basic commodities have in recent months increased marginally and is now working tirelessly to curb…
THERE is no let up to the senseless infighting consuming the country’s opposition, with MDC supporters belonging to different factions involved in ugly scenes at the weekend. Yesterday, officials from the two dominant factions of the country’s main opposition traded accusations and counter accusations over the chaotic scenes which led to police intervening in the…
THE Covid-19 pandemic continues to haunt the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) after last year’s Ordinary Level candidates performed dismally, registering a 6,8 percent decline compared to the 2019 results. This comes as the school calendar was disturbed several times since the country recorded its first Covid-19 case at the beginning of last year, forcing…
