HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has pledged to change the title of traditional leaders from chiefs to kings, saying the former title was imposed by colonialists who wanted to belittle the institution. Addressing thousands of party supporters at a campaign rally in Chiredzi on Sunday, Chamisa who will battle it out with…
HARARE – From illegal settlements in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone farms to poky informal shelters built on undesignated sites, there are now a huge number of squatter camps mushrooming across Zimbabwe’s capital city. In Hatcliffe, an informal community just outside Harare, settlements with shacks made of wood, cardboard and other scrap materials have become the…
HARARE – Talks to reunite the feuding MDC-T factions have virtually collapsed with the Thokozani Khupe-led formation saying it will not go to bed with a political outfit that is full of gangsters and is about to enter into an electoral pact with former president Robert Mugabe. The MDC was plunged into a bitter power…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere told the court yesterday that he skipped the country’s border and sought refuge in Mozambique after learning that the junta wanted to execute him during “Operation Restore Legacy”. This was revealed during the opening of Kasukuwere’s trial on charges of contravening section 24 (1) of…
HARARE – Amid indications that the first round of voting may not produce a clear winner, a section of the civil society in Zimbabwe has started putting together building blocks for a transitional authority — modelled along the lines of the 2009 to 2013 government of national unity (GNU) in which former president Robert Mugabe…
MUTARE – Dangamvura-Chikanga constituency has notched 59 000 registered voters, the highest in Manicaland, the Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) has confirmed. The registered voters in the 2013 election stood at 30 680. This constituency consists mainly of Mutare city’s high density suburbs of Dangamvura and Chikanga and other suburbs which exclude Fern Valley and Green…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday signed the Public Entities Corporate Governance Act into law. He also introduced two statutory instruments, namely the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Regulations and the 2018 Civil Aviation Regulations. In terms of the Public Entities Corporate Governance Act, it provides for the governance of public entities in compliance…
HARARE – In line with its new economic thinking, government must have checks and balances in place to guard against unscrupulous investors who may want to take advantage of its “Zimbabwe is open for Business” mantra. This was said by the commissioner-general of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), Faith Mazani, when she addressed parliamentarians during…
JOHANNESBURG – James Makamba’s sprawling Johannesburg property could soon be confiscated by Absa Bank to recover a $4,5 million (R59 million) debt owed by the Zimbabwe businessman. The debt is understood to have accumulated in mortgage, credit card and vehicle financing accounts the businessman opened with Absa’s Wealth Unit. Makamba, who is a top Zimbabwean businessman…
HARARE – An eventful eighth Parliament of Zimbabwe has come to a close. Last Thursday, Senators and Members of Parliament concluded their business as curtains came down to a lively session of the National Assembly. This followed the gazetting of July 30 as the election date on which President Emmerson Mnangagwa will face MDC Alliance…
