HARARE – Youths from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party are demanding their pound of flesh, and want at least one in every four party candidates in next year’s elections to come from their ranks. Traditionally used as foot soldiers for ageing politicians, the youth said time has come for party leaders to acknowledge that…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwawo is at the centre of a wrangle in which a private property under dispute is being parcelled out to Zanu PF supporters. The land at the centre of the controversy, Whitecliffe Farm, was compulsorily acquired under the controversial land reform exercise. The property belongs to property tycoon…
BEITBRIDGE – MDC youths say they are ready to die defending party leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in the event “dark forces” prevent him from taking power legitimately. These are some of the bold statements MDC youth leader Solomon Madzore has been making since being released from remand prison last month. “This time we are…
JOHANNESBURG – Five high-ranking officials in South Africa have been suspended as the government investigates security breaches during a society wedding. The justice minister said three police officers had also been arrested. A wealthy Indian family was allowed to land a private jet at a military base near the capital, Pretoria. The Gupta family, which…
HARARE – Following the dubious elections of 2008, the African Union meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, mandated Sadc to oversee, among other things, the transition to electoral democracy in Zimbabwe. Last week, I highlighted the primacy of electoralism in democratic transition in Zimbabwe. The significance of electoralism, contrasted with the current fascination on constitutionalism, found…
HARARE – Over a year since a devastating wave of civil unrest swept across North Africa leaving in its wake a string of deposed long-time dictators, President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is still worried about the prospects of such an action here. Panicking, the party is now fighting the world — literally — after it…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today locks horns yet again with estranged “wife” Locardia Karimatsenga, who is demanding a whopping $15 000 in maintenance at the civil courts. The PM, whom the courts say is customarily married to the 38-year-old businesswoman, is contesting the case. He married another woman Elizabeth Macheka last week. However,…
HARARE – High Court judge Samuel Kudya has freed ZimRights director Okay Machisa who was fighting forgery and fraud charges. Kudya set aside Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe’s ruling placing Machisa on remand. The ruling followed an application filed by Machisa’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa for a review of proceedings. Mtetwa told the High Court that Mahwe…
HARARE – Dozens of MDC supporters on Friday came under attack from a group of men in army uniform minutes after party leader Welshman Ncube addressed a rally in Mutoko, Mashonaland East, officials said. Ncube and senior party leaders had just left the venue of the rally at Mutoko Centre when dispersing supporters came under…
HARARE – Tendayi Mundawarara, the NMB Bank chairperson and nephew of the late Solomon Mujuru, is a free man after the State has dropped charges against him for allegedly swindling a Dubai jewellery company of $430 000. The young businessman had been accused of duping Kalotti Jewellery (Kalotti) of cash under an 8,5kg of gold…
