THE estranged husband of Bona, daughter of the late former president Robert Mugabe, Simba Chikore, claims he is not after the multi-million-dollar assets, which include a substantial sum of cash, that his wife acquired prior to their marriage in 2014. In his High Court papers filed last week, Chikore listed at least 21 farms and…
WAR veterans have reignited their push to have former first lady Grace Mugabe surrender the two dozen or so farms that her family allegedly owns in Mashonaland Central Province alone. In this light, the former freedom fighters plan to toyi-toyi at government offices this week, in a bid to force authorities to agree to their…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife, Marry Mubaiwa, has filed another court appeal in South Africa in a bid to stop the sale of her properties in the neighbouring country. Mubaiwa is seeking to stay an order granted in the Pretoria High Court last year for the seizure of her mansion and two top-of-the-range Land…
ZANU PF has rubbished Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC)’s fears that this year’s national polls will be disputed owing to, among other things, lack of electoral reforms, insisting the country had capacity to have credible polls. This comes as the ZCBC has expressed worry that the failure by the country’s political leaders as well as…
INFLUENTIAL Catholic clerics fear that this year’s crunch elections could be disputed again, especially seeing that the scope for national dialogue appears to have passed. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the new secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC), Tryvis Moyo, said the failure by the country to institute all needed electoral reforms…
ZANU PF says it will back electoral reform proposals from the opposition as long as these are “reasonable” and do not have the potential to tarnish this year’s harmonised elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zanu PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi said ruling party legislators were ready to accommodate “reasonable suggestions” from the opposition…
ZANU PF has whipped its aspiring legislators into refraining from perpetrating violence and ordering them to preach peace as they hit the campaign trail in their constituencies ahead of this year’s harmonised elections. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa had, on several occasions, implored citizens not to fight over the polls. Speaking to the Daily…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will introduce its much-debated gold backed digital tokens early next month. RBZ governor John Mangudya said yesterday that the tokens were a form of electronic money backed by gold held at the central bank. “Pursuant to the resolution of the monetary policy committee (MPC) on 28 March 2023 to…
AUTHORITIES say they will throw the book at retail outlets selling their products exclusively in US dollars. The deputy minister of Finance, Clemence Chiduwa, told the Daily News that selling goods exclusively in foreign currencies transgressed the law. This comes as the Zimbabwe dollar has now gone past the $2 000 mark against the greenback…
ZANU PF has set next weekend as the date for primary elections re-runs in some wards amid reports of irregularities when the internal polls to choose candidates to represent the party as councillors in the upcoming general elections. In a circular to all provincial chairpersons, the ruling party’s national political commissar Mike Bimha said there…
