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 – At least 10 civil society groups are facing the sword, as police intensify a crackdown on non-governmental organisations which has now attracted global attention. The Daily News can reveal that police are combing through potential evidence to nail the 10 civil society groups, whose operations include documenting cases of human rights abuses and…
HARARE – Zimbabwean judges have recommended a number of structural and organic changes in the justice delivery system in a bid to reduce “ever increasing” workload and streamline operations. Judges have recommended that the Labour Court be empowered to execute its own judgments and arbitral powers, that regional magistrates’ powers of scrutiny are substantially revised…
