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THE government has declined to be drawn into the court battle between opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). This comes after Mwonzora approached the Constitutional Court last month, challenging the constitutionality of Zec’s much-debated and since gazetted delimitation report. The MDC boss cited President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and…

THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has allocated new top-of-the-range Ford Ranger double cab vehicles and sedans to some of the country’s magistrates. This emerged this week as about 200 magistrates met in the resort town of Victoria Falls for the inaugural national magistrates’ conference. Addressing the magistrates on Thursday, chief magistrate Faith Mushure expressed her…

INVESTMENT expert Lionel Marumahoko says the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) offers local small to medium enterprises (SMEs) an elastic market and vast growth opportunities. AfCFTA is the world’s largest free trade area bringing together 55 countries of the African Union (AU) and eight regional economic communities (RECs). Established in 2018 and operationalised in…

By Brandon Josphat ZANU PF says it is looking for a “thunderous victory” in this year’s crunch national elections, and will thus approach the polls in the same way it did for the historic independence ballot of 1980. Speaking last night on independent television station 3Ktv’s widely-followed news and current affairs programme, Vantage, voluble Zanu…

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has opened the floor for any member who wants to challenge party president Nelson Chamisa during internal nominations to choose aspiring candidates to represent the opposition in this year’s harmonised elections. This comes as the opposition party yesterday announced it was going to have their nominations on April 5. Speaking…

CLERK of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing charges of allegedly inflating a Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) tender for the purchase of laptops and desktops. Chokuda and Parliament’s procurement director Stanley Bhebhe were arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials yesterday morning and were later brought to court…

GLOBAL broadcaster Al Jazeera yesterday aired the second episode of its four-part documentary alleging rampant money laundering and gold smuggling in the country. While the first episode focused on the alleged local “gold mafia”, yesterday’s instalment introduced another concept of the “diplomatic mafia”, while also broadening the documentary’s reach to the region. In this light,…