HARARE – Twenty-one activists from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC charged with killing a police inspector in Harare’s Glen View suburb last year, were finally admitted to bail yesterday. High Court judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu granted bail to the 21 activists after noting that the State’s case “has weaknesses and inconsistencies”. The activists are charged…
HARARE – Security commanders have not sat down with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe in the National Security Council (NSC) in over four months, with the veteran leader not calling any meetings since May. Under the NSC Act, the Council should meet every month, with security commanders congregating with key leaders of…
HARARE – Reports yesterday indicated Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai had reshuffled his top aides with United Kingdom-based lawyer Alex Magaisa coming in to head the PM’s political office ahead of elections next year. Magaisa will also take some of mandates currently held by Tsvangirai’s chief-of-staff Ian Makone. However, media reports had yesterday suggested that both…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC yesterday boycotted the burial of Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director general Elias Kanengoni at the National Heroes Acre saying he was a star architect of political violence and a regime henchman. Kanengoni was convicted of the near-fatal 1990 shooting of Patrick Kombayi, who at the time of…
HARARE – Four aides to Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai were on Tuesday charged with breaching the official secrets code, impersonating the police and illegal possession of documents for criminal use. Thabani Mpofu, director for research in Tsvangirai’s office, two subordinates and a senior party official were arrested on Sunday, in the wake of a…
HARARE – The race for Parliament and council seats ahead of the forthcoming general elections has ripped Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC apart, with factions fighting for supremacy. Factionalism in the party has resurfaced as jockeying intensifies with different camps, fighting for supremacy There is a camp which is fielding young cadres and academics, which…
HARARE – Suluman Chimbetu’s new hit song, Sean Timba has touched political nerves as commentators allege it promotes violence. The controversial song, off his recently-launched album Syllabus explicitly encourages violence and revenge as a way of solving conflict. In Sean Timba, Chimbetu queries the sensibleness of Sean Timba who always escorts others to earn their…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) yesterday blasted President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s “inclusive” government for worsening the plight of students. Scores of students from poor families relying on state support have been forced out of universities because the government continues defaulting on payments under the cadetship scheme. Zinasu president…
HARARE – While we welcome the pledge by the regional body Sadc, to ensure that Zimbabwe will hold free and fair elections next year, more needs to be done to force the Principals to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) to be more serious. The constitutional process has stalled because President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is…
HARARE – For the last 32 years, we have been grudgingly celebrating Heroes’ Day. It is better for us to abandon the culture of heroes as it continues to be severely abused. One time Zanu PF favourite son, Vladimir Lenin, said, “All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the…
