HARARE – The United Nations mission in Zimbabwe has claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling government is doing its best to ensure that a mid-year general election is “free and fair.” Bishow Parajuli, UN Resident Co-ordinator for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Zimbabwe, said in New York last week that he believed Zimbabwe was prepared…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy could grow by up to 4,5 percent this year, driven by an expected growth in agriculture and mining, Parliament’s Budget Office has said. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who came to power in November after a de facto military coup that removed long-time leader Robert Mugabe, has promised economic reforms to attract foreign…
HARARE – The nasty fight for 40 percent of mobile network operator Telecel’s shares, which belong to an empowerment consortium, is getting worse — amid damaging claims and counterclaims by the warring parties. Now, the corporate brawl has sucked in the secretaries of the consortium, Carlton Consultants, a company that is headed by Caston Chikosi….
HARARE – The MDC’s weekend primary elections descended into chaos, with violence, death threats and allegations of bribery marring the main opposition party’s internal polls in some constituencies as its supporters voted to choose their representatives for the country’s looming national elections. [Adz]
HARARE – The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has filed High Court papers demanding an order barring a rival camp led by Thokozani Khupe to stop using the party’s name and symbol. This follows a Supreme Court ruling directing that the matter to be heard urgently. Chamisa’s camp had initially approached the Supreme Court on appeal challenging…
HARARE – Child defilement in relation to sodomy cases are dominating the country’s courts. This comes as frustrations of a jobless younger generation, the dereliction of duty by their elders and an unhealthy mental state of the nation have contributed to the increase in these crimes, observers say. Just last week, a 73-year-old man was…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under huge pressure to sack under fire junior minister Terence Mukupe over a litany of controversial actions and statements that he has made in recent weeks, which have caused palpable anger among many Zimbabweans. [Adz]
HARARE – Several opposition parties and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF have launched their manifestos, all projecting themselves as committed to providing a messianic solution to the vast majority of the country’s poor in an attempt to redress inequalities in society. All the parties that have unveiled their manifestos have made vague, largely unworkable…
HARARE – On a school gate in the Harare West council elections, a hand-written note details the results of MDC municipal primary elections. The winner, by far, was abstention. Barely a third of the registered voters in this working class neighbourhood bothered to cast a ballot at the school, which doubled up as a polling…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s liquidity constraints are now stifling economic activity, with the impact of the currency shortage extending beyond everyday consumers and seeping into other sectors of the economy. This comes as most service stations in Harare have run out of fuel amid a worsening economic crisis, and long queues have formed at the few…
