HARARE – A group of prominent Elders yesterday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to iron out serious disagreements over a raft of electoral reform issues. The Elders who arrived in the country on Thursday and will be in Zimbabwe until today include former US President…
HARARE – Harare City Council has begun installing high mast lighting or tower lights in 11 high and medium density suburbs. Council spokesperson Michael Chideme said the idea is to have a safe and well-lit city for the residents to enjoy. The tower lights come as the city was blasted during a 100-day review for…
HARARE – After spending more than 10 years without receiving municipal water, residents of Mabvuku and Tafara heaved a sigh of relief last weekend when the Harare City Council (HCC) resumed pumping the resource to their homes. The two high density suburbs had, for more than a decade, been hard hit by a water crisis,…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party is being accused of hijacking the distribution of food aid and farming inputs —to make sure opposition members in Mashonaland East’s Uzumba constituency do not access them. Supporters of the MDC Alliance claimed that having hijacked the programme, Zanu PF officials were withholding food handouts and farming inputs…
BULAWAYO – Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa will, for the first time, appear at an MDC Alliance rally to be addressed by party president Nelson Chamisa today. The rally has been set for White City Stadium, the venue of last month’s ugly incident where a bomb blast killed two people, while injuring several others. Dabengwa pulled…
HARARE – In a sentence that could serve as a deterrent to would-be offenders, four villagers have been slapped with a total of 36 years — each serving nine years’ imprisonment — after they were found guilty of hunting a specially protected animal. Masvingo magistrate Peter Madiba handed down the sentence after a full trial…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections look set to end in a presidential run-off pitting Zanu PF leader and current President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, of the MDC Alliance. A survey by Afrobarometer yesterday, exactly 10 days before the much-awaited crunch July 30 elections, shows Mnangagwa getting 40 percent of the vote,…
HARARE – The tenure of office for the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has been extended by six months following its expiry in June 2018. This was revealed by the Zimra board chair, Willia Bonyongwe, in a revenue performance report for the first half of the year ended June 30, 2018. “…The positive 2018 first half…
HARARE – The chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Luke Malaba was yesterday asked to investigate Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) judge Priscilla Chigumba for allegedly behaving “most dishonourably and in an unworthy manner” over her “appalling” handling of the electoral process. A concerned citizen Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo has lodged a complaint with the commission,…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa snubbed an interface meeting of all presidential candidates convened by the civic society in Harare yesterday to foster peace ahead of the crunch July 30 elections. Both were conspicuous by their absence at the Jesuit-run, Arrupe College indaba, in Mt Pleasant. Chamisa ignored…
