POLITICS

Zimbabwe army vows neutrality in election

Zimbabwe's military vowed on Wednesday to stay neutral in upcoming elections, dismissing suggestions it would deploy service personnel to influence national polls scheduled for July 30.The military is...

By AFP | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim duo making baking flour out of bananas

Two 20-year-olds who dove into business after high school in Zimbabwe, turning bananas into a low-cost alternative option to wheat flour.Where most youngsters would opt for a business degree before st...

By FORBES AFRICA | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mphoko accused of funding Mthwakazi

Choppies chairperson, Festus Mogae has written a strongly worded letter to Choppies Zimbabwe's 51% shareholder, former vice president, Phelekezela Mphoko, demanding that he relinquish his Choppies sha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa a dishonest politician, says Mujuru

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa is an evasive and dishonest politician whose traits led to the collapse of coalition talks with other opposition parties, National People's Party ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's ally faces jail term over debt

Deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe is today set to appear before High Court judge Justice Edith Mushore, where he faces civil imprisonment over a $32 593 Trust Bank debt.Trust Holdings' banking s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe returns

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: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Kasukuwere's home raided by police

FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar and Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's fallout with law enforcement agents continued to unfold with police detectives raiding his Harare mansion yesterda...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Noah Manyika reports Zanu-PF to EU observers

BUILD Zimbabwe Alliance (BZA) presidential candidate Noah Manyika says he has notified police and election observer missions that Zanu-PF supporters are engaging in electoral malpractices ahead of the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwean to be deported from Philippines

THE Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) indicated Tuesday that United Methodist missionary Tawanda Chandiwana from Zimbabwe had overstayed and engaged in political activities violating his missionar...

By inquirer.net | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Khupe, Chamisa face off over party funds

THE battle for control of the opposition MDC-T alliance's resources has taken a new angle with leader of the breakaway faction Thokozani Khupe threatening to take her rival Nelson Chamisa to court dem...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mphoko's Choppies fails to pay Zimra

THE government has distributed to Bulawayo hospitals foodstuff confiscated from former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's trucks at Beitbridge border post by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA).Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe flies into bomb storm

Former president Robert Mugabe returned home yesterday to face a torrent of allegations, inflamed by the recent bomb explosion that rocked the second city of Bulawayo on June 24, claiming two lives.Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance candidate raises kidnapping allegations

MDC-T councillor for ward 9 in Chegutu, Edward Dzeka claims he was abducted and tortured by suspected State security agents on Sunday night.Dzeka, who is also his party's deputy spokesperson for Masho...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

OPINION

NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?

Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...

By Tapiwa Nyandoro | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Vote for an untainted leader: Mutinhiri

MDC Alliance top official Tracy Mutinhiri said it was high time Zimbabweans voted in an untainted leader such as Nelson Chamisa.Addressing supporters at Nhekairo business centre in Marondera on Saturd...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa still has grip on Zec, State media

MDC Alliance parliamentary candidate for Mbizo constituency, Settlement Chikwinya, yesterday described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a sly politician who pretended to promote peace, yet he maintaine...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

OPINION

Inside Chamisa's backyard

AS a little boy in the rural Chiwara area of Gutu, south of Zimbabwe, Nelson Chamisa probably never dreamt of leading a major political party, the MDC-T, let alone be among the favourites to win the c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Bid to protect Mnangagwa's name backfires

A BID to protect President Emmerson Mnangagwa from being insulted has landed a Zanu-PF activist in trouble after he was convicted of assaulting an MDC-T supporter in Mvurwi yesterday.Godfrey Museba (4...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

US issues Zimbabwe travel alert

THE United States government has called on its citizens travelling to Zimbabwe to exercise extreme caution, saying they anticipated a spike in the crime rate and civil unrest ahead of the July 30 elec...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Vic Falls mock plane crash tests airport response plan

EMERGENCY service providers in Victoria Falls had an opportunity to test their reaction time yesterday after receiving an aircraft plane crash alert, which later turned out to be a hoax.Several fire t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Chimene's daughter rendered homeless

FORMER Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene's daughter Ellen Zimondi is now "homeless" after the government allegedly dispossessed her of a fraudulently owned plot in Mutare.Thi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

OPINION

The top 5 party manifestos

LAST week's column looked at the Build Zimbabwe manifesto which I ranked third . This week we examine a fourth manifesto.Number 2: People's Rainbow CoalitionThe coalition's manifesto is summed up as t...

By Paul Kaseke | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa threatens 'earthquake' on Mnangagwa

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday threatened to unleash an "earthquake" to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla C...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mudzi is the latest political violence hotbed

THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has released a report indicating that Mudzi district in Mashonaland East had become the latest hotbed of political violence, with candidates complaini...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

OPINION

Is Zimbabwe open for business?

The new government has adopted the term "Zimbabwe is open for business" as its official policy statement. I would like to argue that while in terms of rhetoric Zimbabwe may be open for business, a lot...

By Dumisani O Nkomo | Published: 04 July 2018

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