MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, has accused his opposition rivals of “hypocrisy”, “spreading hate on social media” and “doing nothing” to stop the passage of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 in Parliament. Addressing a media conference in Harare yesterday, the miffed opposition leader also said many of his detractors were trying to “score cheap political…
THE Senate yesterday overwhelmingly voted for the passage of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2, after 65 legislators voted in favour of it, while only 10 voted against it, as the opposition MDC once again found common ground with the ruling Zanu PF party. Out of the 80 senators in Parliament, Zanu PF currently has 53…
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is going after disloyal party officials who defied his call to withdraw from Parliament in solidarity with legislators recalled by his erstwhile colleague Douglas Mwonzora. This comes as Chamisa has lost about 40 legislators and several councillors after they were recalled by Mwonzora, who took over as the president at the…
THE Covid-19 pandemic continues to haunt the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) after last year’s Ordinary Level candidates performed dismally, registering a 6,8 percent decline compared to the 2019 results. This comes as the school calendar was disturbed several times since the country recorded its first Covid-19 case at the beginning of last year, forcing…
ACTING deputy secretary for youth affairs in the Zanu PF politiburo, Tendai Chirau has accused some members of the ruling party’s youth league of acting in a manner detrimental to the moral standing of the party leadership. In his opening remarks during a youth league national executive meeting held in Harare recently, Chirau bemoaned gross…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is scheduled to launch a fine-tuned new indigenisation and empowerment policy in Bulawayo today, as Zanu PF escalates its campaigns for the 2023 national elections. The ambitious latest iteration of the country’s empowerment programme is meant to benefit more Zimbabweans involved in mining, agriculture, infrastructure development and manufacturing, among other sectors. Zanu…
FOREIGN currency shortages have crippled the operations of fertiliser manufacturing companies in the country making it difficult to produce enough to meet the national demand. This resulted in farmers throughout the country struggling to get fertiliser on time, particularly ammonium nitrate, during the just-ended 2020-2021 cropping season. This was revealed during a tour to fertiliser…
THE ruling Zanu PF and the MDC continue to butt heads over Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, with opposition legislators arguing that this will give a sitting president too much power if approved. Speaking in the Senate on Tuesday during a heated debate over the Bill — which seeks to introduce at least 27 amendments…
THE government has allowed schools to partner private companies in commercial enterprise through public private partnerships to ensure self-sustainability by the learning institutions. Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema recently told the National Assembly that he was already in the process of facilitating the acquisition of farms by some schools that intend to venture…
PARLIAMENT has demanded that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) opens investigations into corruption allegations against senior managers at the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara). A report tabled — by the portfolio committee on Public Accounts on Thursday — last week analysing Zinara’s 2017-2018 forensic audit, revealed that hundreds of millions of United States dollars were grossly…
