HARARE – South African President Jacob Zuma has vowed to maintain tough mediation on Zimbabwe as dates for elections draw closer. In his state of the nation address, Zuma, the Sadc-appointed mediator said the region will maintain the spotlight on President Robert Mugabe and his coalition partners, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry and Commerce…
HARARE – President Jacob Zuma, the Sadc appointed mediator to the Zimbabwe crisis says Zimbabwe’s ruling parties will have to secure consensus before proclaiming election dates. Reacting to President Robert Mugabe’s unilateral proclamation of an election on July 31, Zuma’s international relations advisor Lindiwe Zulu told the UK Telegraph that the regional body will not…
HARARE – South African President Jacob Zuma says the July 31 poll date ordered by the Constitutional Court is impractical, unless key reforms to ensure free and fair elections are implemented to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2008 poll. Mugabe had rushed to use the Presidential Powers Act to unilaterally proclaim July 31 as…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party warned yesterday that the arson attack on the home of a member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) — allegedly by ruling Zanu PF supporters — signalled the start of a violent general election campaign. The burning of two houses belonging to David Chihwai Chamanga, the MDC…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are desperately in need of over $20 million to kick-start a voter registration blitz ahead of a referendum and watershed election. With the constitution-making process stalled because of disagreements between Mugabe and Tsvangirai’s parties, the fragile unity government is agreed that there is need to…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe Mugabe is delaying swearing-in Morgan Komichi, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s pick for deputy minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development, a development which could raise tensions in the coalition government. Tsvangirai has chosen Komichi, the MDC deputy chairperson, to fill the vacancy created following the death of Tichaona Mudzingwa in April…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has described the referendum vote as historic as his counterpart President Robert Mugabe admitted that time given to Zimbabweans to digest the draft charter was inadequate. Mugabe and Tsvangirai who voted in high density suburbs of Highfield and Chitungwiza respectively were mobbed by their loyalists who were also casting…
HARARE – Renegade Anglican bishop and prominent supporter of President Robert Mugabe, the ex-communicated Bishop Nolbert Kunonga, is in trouble following legal moves to force him to return cash and shares seized during his five-year illegal control of the church. Lawyers for the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) have written to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke wants the country to use the inaugural Zimbabwe International Carnival set for May as an essential destination marketing tool. The ZTA boss made the remarks during the official opening of a training programme being conducted by a Brazilian company for carnival stakeholders in Harare…
HARARE – Stakeholders to the country’s first carnival set for Africa Day in Harare believe naming the event Harare International Carnival will defeat attempts to elicit a national buy-in for the project. The various representatives of tourist-related organisations who met on Tuesday at the Rainbow Towers overwhelmingly suggested to the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) to…
