HARARE – A member of Zimbabwe National Parks anti-poaching team will spend the next 18 years in jail after he dragged and raped a woman in a maize field. Michael Chirambwi, 37, of Madokero in Harare was convicted of the rape charge after a full trial before Harare regional magistrate Lucy Mungwari. Chirambwi claimed that…
HARARE – Zanu PF is cracking down on individuals who filed papers as independent candidates — with some including former Harare province political commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe facing jail while others risk losing their properties. This comes as the influential Vice President Constantino Chiwenga recently warned that the heat would be turned on Mashayamombe — who…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has formally designated Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to oversee the running of the Defence and War Veterans Affairs ministry. The formal appointment was made under Statutory Instrument 97 of 2018, published in the Government Gazette last week. Chiwenga was appointed to oversee the Defence and War Veterans Affairs ministry through…
HARARE – Preisdent Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he was sacked as the country’s vice president last year by Grace Mugabe, using her influence on former president Robert Mugabe, whom he said was no longer in a position to lead the country. Mnangagwa revealed this in a High Court application in which he challenged and sought…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) triggered a fresh storm yesterday after it availed the voters’ roll to the British Embassy while denying same to candidates participating in the forthcoming general elections. In a tweet posted yesterday, the embassy revealed receiving the contentious voters’ roll from Zec offices — immediately triggering a social media…
HARARE – As the clock ticks towards next month’s elections, main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that rivals were pulling everything out of their bags of tricks to deny his MDC Alliance victory at the forthcoming polls, including attempts on his life. The MDC Alliance presidential candidate made the claims while addressing party…
HARARE – The long-drawn Zimbabwe Airways saga refuses to go away, with under-fire Transport minister Joram Gumbo now standing accused of shielding ousted former president Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law, Simba Chikore, from incarceration — following claims that he recently kidnapped the new airline’s legal head, Bertha Zakeyo. For months now, the murky and fledgling new carrier…
BULAWAYO – While the people of Makokoba constituency agree that the incumbent Zanu PF legislator Tshinga Dube has done well, there are others who think he is wearing the wrong political jacket. Bulawayo has always been an opposition MDC stronghold hence no space for the ruling Zanu PF and Dube won the seat after years…
HARARE – MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe said while they are still tabulating their national figures, they have, however, fielded parliamentary and local government candidates in all the 10 provinces of Zimbabwe. “I am pretty sure we will have more than 110 National Assembly candidates and around 1 000 local government candidates. We are certainly…
HARARE – Factions within the ruling Zanu PF and the main opposition party, MDC will end with this year’s election, social and political analysts contend, adding that the poll will also see an end to several political careers. For the first time President Emmerson Mnangagwa who leads the Zanu PF Lacoste faction will contest the…
