POLITICS

Mukupe slapped with another default judgment

HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore yesterday gave troubled Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe until July 18 to settle his $32 593 debt with Trust Bank loan or face civil imprisonment.Justice ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa ready to die

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is prepared to go to jail or die fighting for a free and fair election, which he said was now unlikely due to an alleged "unholy" alliance between the Zimbabwe Elect...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe army to review Mnangagwa's security

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close protection will be drastically tightened following a botched "attempted assassination" of the head of state at a rally in Bulawayo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Industry targets $7bn revenue

Zimbabwe's manufacturing industry is mulling a plan its contribution to $7 billion by 2030, as it aligns with government's ambitious plan to reverse economic turmoil. The 20 percent contribution will ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

EDUCATION

Govt vows to proceed with public exam

GOVERNMENT has vowed to proceed with the November Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) final Science practical examinations as scheduled despite demands by a teachers group to suspend sitting...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Madhuku's candidates blocked by ZEC

PROFESSOR Lovemore Madhuku's NCA says it only managed to field 72 candidates to contest for the national assembly seats this July with the rest blocked from filing their papers during nomination last ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Undenge demands Mnangagwa arrest

FRAUD accused former Energy Minister, Samuel Undenge went ballistic and demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa's arrest as he took to the dock Wednesday to defend claims of prejudicing the Zimbabwe Pow...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa opens up on bomb scare

President Mnangagwa has for the first time opened up on circumstances surrounding his 1964 arrest after bombing the Rhodesian steam locomotive in Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), revealing how he was for...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa appointed ZEC commissioners

MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday revealed that he played a crucial role in the appointment of commissioners to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), which today he condemns as lackin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Zim military pledges to respect poll outcome

The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) says it will respect the outcome of the July 30 harmonised elections as its conduct is guided by the Constitution. ZDF spokesperson Colonel Overson Mugwisi said ZDF m...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Vambe dumps Zanu-PF to drum up support for Chamisa

RENOWNED drummer Douglas Vambe has shifted his political allegiance to the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance after dumping the ruling Zanu-PF party, which he accuses of abusing him and failing to recog...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

$200 000 property up in smoke

PROPERTY worth an estimated $202 000 was reduced to ashes on Tuesday when Empire House in Bulawayo was gutted down by fire.The building houses several flea markets.Bulawayo chief fire officer, Richard...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's Office admits to graft

Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, yesterday admitted that remnants of corruption from the previous government of former President Robert Mugabe's administration were still...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Kazembe, Musarara case rages

HARARE businessman, Tafadzwa Musarara has said he still enjoys cordial relations with Sports minister Kazembe Kazembe who defeated him in Zanu-PF primary elections for Mazowe West constituency.Musara ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Undenge want real criminals in govt to be arrested

Former Energy minister Samuel Undenge yesterday said it was a mockery to arrest him for merely writing a letter for a voluntary work while there are "real criminals" who offered Vice-President Constan...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

No red carpet for Mugabe at his airport

FORMER President Robert Mugabe limped home to the humiliation of being consigned to watching his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reception party wait to receive him complete with a spread out...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa rejects 'sham' Zec ballot

OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday rejected the "sham" ballot papers produced for the July 30 elections and immediately dispatched his emissaries on a regional diplomatic offensiv...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Councillors call for 50% debt write-off

BULAWAYO councillors are calling for a 50% debt write-off for ratepayers or two months exemption from paying bills to cushion them against the harsh economic conditions.According to the latest full co...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

OPINION

Why Mnangagwa will lose the election

The economy. The temptation for those in the political classes is to view politics as an abstract game. It is not.There are real people who graduated 10 years ago and have never seen a pay slip. Peopl...

By Edmund Kudzayi | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Bond paper ballot case dismissed

THE High Court has dismissed a bid by little-known opposition Zanu party to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to print this year's ballot material on ordinary bond paper.High Court judge J...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Dabengwa regrets collapse of coalition talks

ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has said he regrets the failure by opposition to form a grand coalition to block what he fears will herald political militarisation should the ruling Zanu-PF win the July 3...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Cops clear MLF prayer meeting

POLICE in Bulawayo have given secessionist Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) activists the green light to hold their "Breaking the Silence" prayer meeting at the Stanley Square on Saturday, on conditio...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

OPINION

Beyond the rhetoric, what does Mnangagwa offer?

When President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)came to power, I was one of the sceptical ones, as he has been in government since independence and I believed he was as much to blame for the economic, pol...

By Nqaba Matshazi | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Old Mutual's centre to jumpstart informal sector

ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed financial services group, Old Mutual, says its $21,4 million state-of-the-art small to medium enterprises (SMEs) Eastgate Market in Harare would be opened next month.Spe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

US travel warnings an indictment on Mnangagwa

REPORTS that the United States government has urged its citizens travelling to Zimbabwe to exercise extreme caution due to an anticipated spike in crime and civil unrest ahead of the July 30 elections...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

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