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 – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has reacted angrily to reports that former first lady Grace Mugabe will be his running mate for the July 30 elections, saying the assertions were meant to create the sense that only his rival, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, stands for a clean break from the Robert Mugabe days. Chamisa…
HARARE – The newly-appointed commissioner-general of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has blew the whistle on civil servants from the other arms of government who are working in cahoots to deprive the fiscus of the much-needed tax revenue. Zimra boss, Faith Mazani, told parliamentarians attending a tax workshop at a Harare hotel mid last week…
BULAWAYO – A survey by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (Mpoi) and Afrobarometer has predicted a closely-contested presidential race between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa that seems to point towards a run-off. See today’s paper for details. [Adz]
HARARE – An inspector who probed a reported crack in the wall of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) head office extension at Kurima House has ruled out structural problems, a spokesperson has said. Zimra employees were on Wednesday forced to evacuate the office after a false alarm that the building had been damaged. According to…
HARARE – Harare City Council is set to partner with Agriliance (Pvt) Ltd in a commercialisation project of the city’s three farms. The three farms — Ingwe, Pension and Crowborough — were acquired in 1973 as part of the city’s sewerage treatment system. According to business committee minutes, in 2013 council was loaned $600 000…
HARARE – State broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), broke with tradition yesterday when it beamed live the MDC Alliance’s 2018 election manifesto launch. It was a rare broadcast in a country where television has been tightly controlled by the State, which has previously shut out the opposition from the small screen, unless if it…
HARARE – Aspiring Zanu PF candidate for Shamva South constituency, Bramwell Bushu, who is accused of breaching the Constitution by contesting for the seat on a ruling party ticket despite being a chief, has denied claims that he is a substantive traditional leader. His lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, told High Court judge Emy Tsanga, that his…
HARARE – As the implementation of the $98 million National Broadband Project nears completion, TelOne is changing all the area codes and modifying telephone numbers countrywide. The area codes have been reduced from 195 to just 20 in line with the International Telecommunication Union regulations. The 20 area codes mean that some areas that previously…
HARARE – Ahead of next month’s decisive polls, Zanu PF is fretting over threats by the Generation 40 (G40) faction, which has openly thrown its full weight behind the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa of the MDC. On Tuesday, the G40 faction, which is rabidly opposed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration joined the MDC…
