THE ruling Zanu PF is no longer practising “old politics” and is pushing committedly for unity and tolerance among all Zimbabweans, party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, he also assured jittery opposition leaders and their supporters that the return of the national youth service training programme would not lead to…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is battling a serious staff shortage, with over 1 300 vacant posts, one of the reasons for poor service delivery. In December last year, the local authority wrote to the Local Government ministry requesting permission to hire 1 341 staff members over a four-year period, citing the impending human capital…
AUTHORITIES are escalating their bid to rehabilitate all damaged roads in the country after heavy rains pounded the region this past rain season. Speaking yesterday at the newly-constructed Karanda Bridge in Mt Darwin in Mashonaland Central, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the government was targeting to refurbish at least 10 000km of the road infrastructure. “In…
FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is facing corruption charges, is seeking to be tried separately from her co-accused, the ministry’s then permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka, saying she wants him to be her defence witness. Through her lawyer Admire Rubaya, Mupfumira yesterday told the court that the State had crippled her right to execute…
A HARARE man has filed a lawsuit against police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga, at the High Court claiming that he was wrongfully arrested and is seeking to be released from custody. Borislav Trifonov Boynov, who is under police guard in hospital, cited Matanga and an assistant inspector Patrick Matare as the respondents in the suit. Boynov…
THE imminent return of the national youth service training programme has triggered jitters among many in the opposition who have bad memories of the project’s cadets. The programme’s recruits were infamously referred to as “Green Bombers” during their reign of terror between 2001 and 2009, as the late former president Robert Mugabe battled to retain…
ZANU PF and MDC MPs have expressed divergent views regarding Constitution Amendment Bill No. 2, which will see, among other things, the dropping of the presidential running mate clause ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. Debating the proposed law in the National Assembly on Tuesday, MDC MPs criticised the bill gazetted in December 2019, saying…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has raised fears that the insurgency in Mozambique could spill over into Zimbabwe — urging local communities, especially those in Manicaland, to be on high alert. Speaking before yesterday’s Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare, Mnangagwa also said his government was working with Mozambican authorities, through the Southern African Development Community (Sadc),…
THE High Court has nullified the recall from Parliament of MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti, pictured, and five others after ruling that Benjamin Rukanda is not the bona fide People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general. Rukanda caused the recall of Biti together with William Madzimure, Settlement Chikwinya, Kucaca Ivumile Phulu, Sichelesile Mahlangu, and Regai Tsunga…
IN A sign that Harare may be hardening its stance towards the West, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says meaningful re-engagement with Washington and Brussels will only happen when they accept that there will be no reversal of Zimbabwe’s land reform programme. In tidbits of his pre-recorded Independence speech which were made public yesterday by Information permanent…
