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…
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…
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has started collecting data for the 2021 population and housing census — paving the way for the delimitation of new legislative constituencies ahead of the 2023 national polls. The data will see the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mapping out the country’s 210 parliamentary constituencies and thousands of local government…
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has warned of criminals impersonating soldiers and police officers, terrorising people in Mashonaland West and Central provinces. In a statement yesterday, the ZNA said the daring criminals move around with fake warrants bearing a purported signature of Commander Defence Forces (CDF), Philip Valerio Sibanda. “ZNA would like to alert the…
BULAWAYO police have arrested a 37-year-old man, who was on the run for the past week, after he was suspected to have committed the gruesome killing of Farai Mazhindu. The deceased was found lying in a pool of blood, with his private parts ripped off just a stone’s throw from the house where he was…
HIGH Court judge Webster Chinamora has granted temporary relief to a local mining company, Angel Hill Mining Company (Angel Hill), which sought an order to suspend the Mines ministry’s directive barring it from mining along the Angwa River bank in Mashonaland West province. The ruling was handed down after the firm approached the court challenging…
INCARERATED Harare businessman Adam Hartnack has denied allegations that he swindled the government of over US$60 000 in a cloud seeding scam. Hartnack and his company Adamair are facing three counts of fraud and yesterday he told the Harare Magistrates’ Courts he had a backup aircraft after one of his planes went for mandatory maintenance…
