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HARARE – MPs across the political divide yesterday grilled Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa over the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s alleged involvement in the cash parallel market. This comes as the RBZ is suing opposition NPF spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire for allegedly fingering one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s sons in alleged black-market currency trading in cahoots…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is mulling declaring the day of voting in this year’s eagerly-awaited elections, a public holiday, a Cabinet minister has said. Justice and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told the National Assembly on Tuesday that the Constitution allows the president to declare voting day as a public holiday. “Also in terms…

HARARE – Opposition Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) has lodged an application seeking direct access to the Constitutional Court where it intends to challenge some defective provisions of the Electoral Act and press for their alignment with the new Constitution before the country holds national elections in a few months’ time. In the application, the…

HARARE – The Pretoria High Court will today give itself a chance to decide an issue that could lead to the revocation of diplomatic immunity granted to Zimbabwe’s former first lady, Grace Mugabe, paving the way for her to face prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model. The court agreed to hear a…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rebuke of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over its involvement in the running of Zanu PF primary elections has received mixed reactions, with some analysts saying he was right to censure the force while others seriously doubted his sincerity. This comes after allegations that Zanu PF used ZRP, Central Intelligence…

HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, has spoken at the Oxford Union about his contentious rise to the MDC presidency. The 40-year-old opposition leader spoke to students about the recent MDC split over leadership struggles that have seen one of the vice presidents Thokozani Khupe walk out to form her own movement. Chamisa…

HARARE – The mainstream MDC has called to order senior party members who are eyeing constituencies that have been reserved for members of its youth assembly. The party has reserved at least 20 percent of the contested seats, at both local authority and parliamentary levels, for young people. But with elections fast approaching around July/August…

HARARE – The High Court has ordered Labour and  Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye to pay over $400 000, including interest, borrowed from a local bank over five years ago. The court heard on May 24, 2011, CBZ Bank Limited and Kagonye entered into an agreement in which the bank agreed to provide the politician…

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is fighting to protect its property attached to settle a $450 000 debt owed to a company contracted to partake in a $4 million borehole drilling project. This follows the High Court’s decision to grant Water Logistics Investments (Private) Limited a writ of execution in March this year…

HARARE – Teachers have strongly disagreed over what course of action to take after government’s offer of a 10 percent salary increment was not universally accepted by the unions — prompting sharp divisions which saw most of the schools reporting full staff complement at the commencement of the new term yesterday. The country’s largest teachers’…