HARARE – Top human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has accused the State of abusing the justice delivery system by being political in a case in which her client ZimRights director Okay Machisa lost a bail bid. Mtetwa said this yesterday during a bail application for Machisa, whose organisation is accused of manufacturing fake copies of…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his former ally-turned-foe Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube are under pressure to form a coalition from smaller political parties and the generality of Zimbabweans. Although Ncube has already ruled out any prospects of a poll pact with his former president under a united MDC — political analysts…
HARARE – Malawi President Joyce Banda says she is impressed by the level of participation by the country’s small-scale farmers in the production of tobacco. Addressing the media after touring Boka Tobacco Auction Floors in Harare yesterday, Banda who is in the country for a five-day State visit during which she will also open this…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe will remain saddled with the tough mediation of South African President Jacob Zuma after the African National Congress (ANC) retained the Zimbabwean crisis mediator as party leader. Zuma’s re-election at the party’s congress yesterday effectively means he will remain Sadc’s key man to Zimbabwe, which is heading towards a watershed…
HARARE – Registrar General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has deliberately set in motion a media gag by isolating the independent media from national processes which affect the forthcoming referendum and general election. A Daily News reporter was thrown out of Mudede’s boardroom while attending a press conference on the voters’ roll. Mudede said invitations to cover…
HARARE – Socialite and fashionista Pokello Nare has been chosen as the face of local fashion label Ndeip/Zviri Sei Sei fashion label in a year-long endorsement deal. Pokello is best known for her expensive tastes and glamorous fashion – big personal collections and a relationship with swaggering rapper Desmond “Stunner” Chideme, who has also been…
HARARE – Cabinet has blocked a move by Vice President Joice Mujuru to force local authorities — widely led by the MDC — to procure goods through the State Procurement Board. Finance minister Tendai Biti told journalists last week that a Cabinet meeting chaired by President Robert Mugabe had resolved to give procurement powers back…
HARARE – Acting President Joice Mujuru has waded into the indigenisation saga which has seen a few politically-connected individuals creaming millions of dollars while the majority suffers. Mujuru, whom sources say is miffed by the rate at which some of her Zanu PF colleagues and businesspeople are plundering national resources and engaging in self-enrichment under…
HARARE – Tickets to a four-day men-only convention staged by Zimbabwe’s charismatic celebrity preachers Prophets Emmanuel Makandiwa and Uebert Angel starting tomorrow are fast-selling. Yesterday, United Family International Church (UFIC)’s Harare branch, where the tickets are being sold, said they were running out of tickets for the four-day convention scheduled for the City Sports Centre…
HARARE – SADC countries including Zimbabwe have reportedly deployed troops to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid reports of a spectre of a long multi-national campaign against the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels. Zimbabwe is reported to have deployed a battalion of soldiers into the DRC as part of a broader multi-national peacekeeping force to…
