HARARE – The squabbling in the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC, is likely going to create a serious crisis that will result in many aspiring candidates contesting as independents, analysts have said. There are currently serious fights in the ruling party and MDC as disgruntled candidates are planning to contest as independent…
HARARE – Farmers on resettled land burnt 700 000 hectares of land out of a total 1 268 534 hectares that was consumed by veld fires in the year ended 2017. The 1 268 534 hectares that went up in smoke, destroying valuable deciduous trees, wildlife and property represents a 300 percent increase of total…
HARARE – Since the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led new dispensation took charge last November, long-suffering Zimbabweans feel the country’s economy has remained in the doldrums. The cash crisis, which started during deposed president Robert Mugabe’s rule, has worsened, the illegal foreign currency market is flourishing, while Zimstats recently said Zimbabwe’s year-on-year inflation edged up to 2,71…
MUTARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told thousands of Zanu PF supporters here that elections would be held in July. The revelation comes amid calls by Zanu PF’s rival and civic organisations for the president to announce the election roadmap that spells out the actual poll dates. Mnangagwa pleaded with party supporters who thronged Sakubva…
HARARE – Government has suspended the licensing and growing of marijuana — popularly known as mbanje. Last month, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration gazetted licence fees for those interested in growing cannabis (mbanje) for research and medicinal purposes. This was seen as part of strategies to shore up revenue flows to the depressed fiscus. The development,…
HARARE – Opposition political parties have said pronouncements by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscillah Chigumba that they will only be allowed to observe the printing process of ballot papers were not sufficient enough to allay their rigging fears. On Wednesday, Chigumba said the electoral body’s commissioners had unanimously agreed that it was unconstitutional for…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s “scientific illiteracy” is the main reason why the country’s economy will not improve anytime soon, opposition New Patriotic Front (NPF) leader Tendai Munyanduri has said. He alleges Ambrose Mutinhiri and his cabal stole the name “New Patriotic Front” from him. Munyanduri rebranded his Progressive and Innovative Movement of Zimbabwe (PIMZ)…
HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s mother-in-law, Helga Mubaiwa, has dragged the ruling Zanu PF party to the High Court challenging the outcome of the recently-conducted primary elections. Mubaiwa lost the poll to rival, Munyaradzi Kashambe, who was declared the winner to represent Zanu PF as its parliamentary candidate for the Seke constituency, in the…
HARARE – The death of businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei’s father dealt a major blow on government business this week as virtually all ministers abandoned their workstations to attend his burial — in a development that also paralysed Parliament’s business. There was a virtual government business shut-down in Parliament on Wednesday as President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his deputy…
HARARE – Contrary to claims by Zanu PF that the issue of ballot paper cannot be subjected to open tender, the Electoral Act mandates the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to disclose the process to competing parties in an election. There has been disagreement between the ruling party and the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC over whether…
