HARARE – The security sector will play an active role in the production and regulation of cannabis (mbanje or dagga) to be grown for medicinal or scientific purposes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Early this year, government legalised the production of mbanje upon acquiring a licence and subject to meeting set requirements. This was done…
HARARE – Since taking over from Mugabe with the assistance of the military in November last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has faced criticism for doing very little to achieve gender parity in the top echelons of his government. His ruling Zanu PF party’s constitution specifically provides for a 50-50 percent representation of men and women…
HARARE – Since taking over from Mugabe with the assistance of the military in November last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has faced criticism for doing very little to achieve gender parity in the top echelons of his government. [GoogleAd] [Adz]
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s local authorities which are owed over $2 billion are now desperately discounting their ratepayers in a bid to recover some of the money. Since the beginning of the year, most councils have been offering between 30 and 50 percent discounts to residents who are their biggest debtors. As a Zanu PF campaign…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s newly-established commission of inquiry into the politically-motivated violence of August 1 that led to the death of at least six civilians is bound to fail just like several other previous commissions, whose results have not been made public, political analysts have said. Zimbabwe has a documented and long history of…
HARARE – A nine-member committee has been tasked by Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to organise a State burial for former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan on September 13. A statement signed by the director of communications at the presidency, Eugene Arhin, said that Ambassador Annan Cato would chair the committee that has Kojo…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum is calling on government to consider compensating families of victims of forced disappearances. This comes as Zimbabweans joined the rest of the world in commemorating the United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, dedicated to raising awareness that enforced disappearance is a crime. The…
HARARE – The State has set November 19 and 29 as trial dates for former Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi who is facing a slew of corruption charges. Mzembi appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa represented by Job Sikhala yesterday. His trial on allegations of misappropriating funds meant for the 2013 United Nations World Tourism Organisation…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday threw out a challenge by MDC Alliance official Tendai Biti who was contesting the authority of Zimbabwean courts to prosecute him arguing he was unconstitutionally removed from Zambia where he was seeking asylum. Magistrate Francis Mapfumo concurred with the State that Biti was arrested on Zimbabwean soil and ruled…
HARARE – As Harare City Council draws towards its budget consultation meetings for formulation of the 2019 budget, residents are of the opinion that the notification time given by the City Fathers is too short. In interviews conducted during a residents’ meeting this week, residents argued that people were being informed of ward meetings on…
