MUTARE – Soldiers have cleared illegal artisanal gold miners who had maintained a two-decade stranglehold on government-owned Allied Timbers’ Tarka Forest Reserve – a commercial pine tree plantation in Chimanimani – in a clean sweep that suggests a previous lack of political will in addressing the menace. The army moved in in April and has…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s civil society has petitioned regional bloc Southern African Development Community (Sadc) expressing concern at Zimbabwe’s preelection stalemate, as pressure continued piling up on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to level the electoral playing field ahead of July 30 elections. Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) — a conglomeration of more than 80 civil society organisations…
HARARE – A Zanu PF rally at Robert Mugabe Square in Harare meant to counter Tuesday’s MDC Alliance demonstration attracted a lower than expected turn-out yesterday, with the event sullied by a scramble for T-shirts. The Zanu PF youth league had hoped to flex its muscle at the solidarity march with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s call…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) managing director Noah Gwariro yesterday testified that former Energy minister Samuel Undenge was responsible for authorising a public relations contract that prejudiced the power utility of $12 000. Undenge is answering to criminal abuse of office charges before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya. The charges relate to a contract…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has blamed the police for failing to arrest unlicensed foreign currency traders saying there was a legal framework in place to curb the vice. This comes as the country is in the throes of a critical US dollar shortage it adopted as legal tender in 2009 after the worthless…
HARARE – ZANU PF campaign material worth millions of dollars is being imported into Zimbabwe without paying duty at a time the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is struggling to meet its collection targets and the country’s economy is on its knees. The revelations were made during a question and answer session with parliamentarians in Harare…
HARARE – A chief in Mashonaland Central, Bramwell Bushu, is under fire for winning primary elections to represent Zanu PF as its parliamentary candidate in the Shamva South Constituency in the July 30 elections. His opposite number, MDC candidate Leman Pwanyiwa, is challenging Bushu’s selection, which he argues is unconstitutional. In the application before the…
HARARE – A civil society activist Bongani Nyathi has approached the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) challenging the army’s intervention last November, which led to former president Robert Mugabe’s resignation. The army led an exercise code-named Operation Restore Legacy that ousted 94-year-old Mugabe, one of the world’s longest serving dictators, in a bloodless takeover. In the court…
HARARE – The National Patriotic Front (NPF) — which has the blessings of ousted former president Robert Mugabe — yesterday threw its weight behind the MDC Alliance in its protest march against what it perceives as the slow pace of electoral reforms ahead of the July 30 vote. The development came as thousands of MDC…
HARARE – The National Patriotic Front (NPF) — which has the blessings of ousted former president Robert Mugabe — yesterday threw its weight behind the MDC Alliance in its protest march against what it perceives as the slow pace of electoral reforms ahead of the July 30 vote. See today’s paper for details. [Adz]
