POLITICS

Khupe faction blames 'rebel' tag for poor election showing

THE Thokozani Khupe-led faction of the MDC-T claims that the "breakaway faction and rebel" tag given to it by its rivals significantly contributed to its poor performance in the July 30 general electi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Komichi abandons placement on remand challenge

MDC Alliance chairperson Morgen Komichi, who is accused of attempting to disrupt the announcement of presidential election results by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, yesterday abandoned his bid to ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance, MRP trade barbs over Bulawayo mayoral candidate

MDC Alliance Bulawayo youths are up in arms against their Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) counterparts whom they accused of interfering in the selection of the city's mayor.On Tuesday, the two groups c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Kwekwe's first female mayor hits ground running

KWEKWE City Council's first female mayor since independence in 1980, Angeline Kasipo, has hit the ground running - declaring on her first day in office that she had already launched a five-year progra...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Zacc probes Zimra official

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday said it was closing in on a top Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) official implicated in a bribery storm after he allegedly demanded a bribe f...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe calls for caution in mandatory postal tracking implementation

ZIMBABWE has called on the international community of postal regulatory authorities to be cautious before implementing a planned blanket mandatory tracking system on parcels, arguing it could hit oper...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Bulawayo councillors petitioned to declare their assets

THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents' Association (BPRA) has petitioned incoming councillors to declare their assets to prevent unbridled corruption as witnessed in the previous council.Former Local Gov...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

OPINION

Two vital pillars towards 'fixing' Zimbabwe

THESE are trying times we find ourselves in; the election has come and gone. Peaceful voting was met with excessive use of force by the police and army, which resulted in the regrettable loss of life....

By Stakes Chigs | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa to consult Chitungwiza this weekend

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will this weekend date his Chitungwiza grassroots supporters in an ongoing consultation exercise to map the way forward following the disputed July 30 harmonised ele...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

War vets rap opposition over shortages

THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) has blamed the opposition for conniving with their "imperialist handlers" to cause the worsening economic situation in the country, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

$10 million for export credit guarantee

GOVERNMENT has injected $10 million into the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of Zimbabwe (ECGC) in a bid to promote the growth and diversification of the country's export trade, an official has sa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Gweru mayor, deputy elected unopposed

WARD Two councillor Josiah Makombe is the new mayor of Gweru after being elected unopposed while Clr Cleopas Shiri will deputise him after also sailing through unopposed. Gweru councillors were on Tue...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Water shedding starts in Bulawayo

THE Bulawayo City Council has embarked on 10 hour water cuts in some suburbs mainly due to erratic electricity supply at its waterworks. In a statement, the Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube advised res...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Is Chamisa losing grip?

THE revolt by councillors against MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, over his alleged attempts to impose candidates in the coalition-controlled councils is significant in showing his loose grip o...

By Nduduzo Tshuma | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Victoria Falls residents bay for Chamisa ally's blood

CHAOS reigned supreme during voting for the next Victoria Falls mayor and deputy as residents protested imposition of a candidate by the MDC Alliance. While the swearing in process went on peacefully,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance failed to bring amendments to electoral law

The MDC Alliance and civil society failed to bring to Parliament any proposed amendments to the electoral law despite endless calls for reforms every time they faced elections, Speaker of the National...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Madiro scoffs at NPF’s poll petition

Zanu-PF Mutare North House of Assembly representative Michael Madiro has described losing National Patriotic Front (NPF) candidate, Mr Agrippa Bopela Masiyakurima's High Court petition challenging his...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

OPINION

Why rural vote is heart, soul of Zimbabwean democracy

Rural folk did not limit their usefulness to war times because even when we got political independence, the country still needed to protect itself from cultural and economic colonisers. In this new ta...

By Charles Motsi | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Biti in $30 million NSSA scam

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday indicated that it was keen to interview Finance Minister during the Government of National Unity era Tendai Biti over allegations that he instructed t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T slept on duty, says Mudenda

The opposition and civic society failed to bring to Parliament any proposed amendments to the electoral law despite endless calls for reforms every time they faced elections, Speaker of the National A...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa, Biti in good books

State Media reports that power struggles in MDC-Alliance between its leader Mr Nelson Chamisa and Mr Tendai Biti have escalated and are now playing out in the ongoing mayoral elections, it has emerged...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

US to intensify sanctions on Zimbabwe

THE United States Senate and Congress have passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act (ZIDERA) sanctions amendment Bill (S. 2779), energised at the behest of the opposition's re...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa mocks Chamisa

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has spoken glowingly about the late MDC founding father Morgan Tsvangirai while mocking the former trade unionist's successor - Nelson Chamisa - whom he is squaring up aga...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 July 2018

POLITICS

Mujuru tells candidates to fund their campaigns

People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate Joice Mujuru has ordered her council and parliamentary candidates to fund their own campaigns ahead of next weeks' elections.In correspondence t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa ropes in anti-rigging experts

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has put together a team of experts in an attempt to forestall any form of rigging that may arise before, during and after the Monday poll.Harare lawyer Thabani Mpofu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 July 2018
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