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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest trade union federation has dismissed a warning from Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema that those planning anti-government demonstrations risked dire consequences. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), an ally of Nelson Chamisa’s MDC, said it was disturbed by comments attributed to Mathema that any future anti-government demonstrations would be crushed….

HARARE – Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has outrightly denied that soldiers are responsible for the killing of six civilians on August 1, implying that there could be a second hand responsible for the shootings. Testifying before the Kgalema Montlanthe-led commission, both Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Valerio Sibanda and Brigadier General Anselem Sanyatwe…

HARARE – People living with disabilities have said they are being let down by underfunding and are calling for a boost in funds allocated to them in the 2019 National Budget. A Deaf Zimbabwe Trust official said President Emmerson Mnangagwa specifically mentioned that the lives of persons with disabilities are a priority and will improve…

HARARE – Mount Pleasant MDC Member of Parliament Samuel Banda was yesterday arraigned in court over allegations of presenting a false residential address to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). Banda allegedly provided the false address during the National Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) exercise in December last year. Using the alleged false address, Banda contested for…

HARARE – Members of Parliament are to get their sitting allowance cut in an attempt to reduce the public wage bill. The MPs’ $75 per sitting pay will be slashed, although their salaries will remain unchanged and will still get Parliament-issued vehicles. The lawmakers vigorously blocked attempts to deny them vehicles, saying that they were…

HARARE – A Peruvian man who was caught with a kilogramme of cocaine at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in September has been slapped with a 10 year jail term. Wilmer Tarazona Aro was convicted on his own plea of guilty for unlawfully dealing in dangerous drugs by Harare magistrate Rumbidai Mugwagwa. Mugwagwa sentenced Aro…

HARARE – Zimbabwe yesterday received a $3,6m grant for cyber security equipment to curb the increase in cyber crimes. The grant was inked by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Japan ambassador to Zimbabwe Toshiyuki Iwado at a signing ceremony at the ministry offices. Iwado said the main aim of the project was to improve the…

HARARE – The MDC yesterday said it feared for the life of its leader Nelson Chamisa, whom it claimed had narrowly escaped kidnapping by suspected State security agents over the weekend. But the government has robustly dismissed the Saturday incident as nothing more than “a mere road rage” matter. Addressing journalists at the party’s headquarters…

HARARE – Masvingo has gone for a week without water because the municipality is failing to raise $4 000 for fix a water pump. Masvingo Residents Trust (MRT) coordinator Ephraim Mutombeni has written to minister of State for Masvingo Province Ezra Chadzamira to facilitate the emergency allocation of the required forex from the Reserve Bank…

HARARE – Zanu PF’s notorious succession demons have resurfaced, with the party’s senior officials locking horns over who should take over from President Emmerson Mnangagwa — a few months after the 76-year-old strongman won a hotly-disputed five-year mandate to lead the country. The fresh fissures in the former liberation movement come as Mnangagwa has recently…