POLITICS

Mphoko accused of 'looting' Choppies cash

THE Mphoko family has come under fire for allegedly hijacking the Choppies retail business and "looting" cash from the outlets countrywide without board approval.Mr Siqokoqela Mphoko, son to the count...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa appoints chiefs

President Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Tsaurai Alphios Chitsa as substantive Chief Chitsa of Gutu and Mr Mhumhi Mapfumo as Chief Zimuto of Masvingo, paving the way for their investiture. The appointment...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018

POLITICS

'Zanu-PF has no control over ZEC'

ZANU-PF does not control the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) and the electoral body is totally independent, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has said. Addressing thousands of Zanu-PF supporters...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance too broke to pay for ads

The MDC Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday admitted it was struggling to raise money to pay for advertising slots availed by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation on both radio and television...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018

POLITICS

'Reckless and retrogressive' Chiwenga slammed

Local authorities have warned Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga against inciting residents to boycott paying rates, saying his recent call for a rates boycott was "reckless and retrogressive".Outgoi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018

OPINION

Is Zimbabwe falling into the coup trap?

A coup d'état, can be understood as the sudden and illegal removal of the incumbent using force or the threat of force.The "stroke of the State" as per the French translation is often a swift, surpri...

By Munyaradzi Ziburawa | Published: 11 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T intensify parliamentary bid

Some aspiring National Assembly members in Bulawayo from the Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T faction have intensified their parliamentary bid with some door-to-door campaigns while expressing confidence ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Grace Mugabe ally's farm safe for now

Axed Zanu-PF Manicaland youth chair Mubuso Chinguno has obtained an urgent court interdict preventing army officials from invading his farm.This comes amid sustained pressure by officials angling to t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa mourns Mohadi's brother

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday offered his condolences to the Mohadi family following the death of Steven Dugish Mohadi, brother to Vice President Kembo Mohadi. Mohadi (58), a war veteran and a former ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Voter challenges Chamisa's demands at court

A registered voter has approached the High Court seeking to bar the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) from acceding to demands by various political formations for the electoral body to provide them ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Charamba calls Chamisa's spokesperson a 'spin nurse'

Zanu-PF has dismissed claims by communication upstarts in the MDC Alliance's information department that President Mnangagwa has been seeking to meet the coalition's leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for a pol...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa's supporters jailed for assault

TWO MDC-T supporters from Mutasa Central constituency were yesterday slapped with one year imprisonment for assaulting a Zanu-PF supporter they accused of wearing the ruling party's regalia.The two br...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe ghosts hangs over polls

More than six months after former president Robert Mugabe was dramatically ousted from power - and with Zimbabwe’s crunch national polls a mere three weeks away - the nonagenarian continues to hog t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Fresh row over voters' details

A fresh row has erupted between the MDC Alliance and Zec over the release of voters' cellphone numbers after Zanu P allegedly sent text messages to people soliciting for voters ahead of this months' w...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'RBZ has failed in forex allocation'

ZIMBABWE Textile Manufacturers' Association (Zitma) says local banks should handle the foreign currency allocation system as the central bank has failed to allocate forex to the industry and was now f...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

Chamisa in campaign blitz, lines up 5 star rallies

MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, this week takes his campaign trail to Manicaland province where he has lined up five star rallies as the elections scheduled for July 30 draw close...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga scoffs at MDC Alliance protest

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday scoffed at the proposed MDC Alliance march scheduled for tomorrow to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to level the political playfield ahead of the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

'Zanu-PF breaks into Zec database'

STAKEHOLDERS in the harmonised elections have accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of granting Zanu-PF access to the Biometric Voters Roll (BVR) database where the ruling party accessed reg...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF candidates in door-to-door campaign

ZANU-PF's Mutare Central and Dangamvura or Chikanga parliamentary candidates Nancy Saungweme and Esau Mupfumi have embarked on door-to-door campaigns as they seek direct interaction with the electorat...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

EU, US support Zanu-PF, claims Mutsvangwa

MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mutsvangwa on Saturday claimed that Zanu-PF had support of most European countries and the United States because of the peace prevailing in the country ah...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

250 000 'ghost voters' on Zimbabwe roll

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has reportedly released a register of voters with over 250 000 ghost voters on its final biometric voters' roll (BVR), NewsDay reported.The alleged scam, accord...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare City misses its deadline

HARARE City Council has missed the deadline it had set for recruitment of a town clerk, with the human resources committee blaming the mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni, for the delay.Council, three weeks ago...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Tempers flare over defaced election posters

THE Zanu-PF youth league has accused MDC Alliance activists of defacing the ruling party candidates' campaign posters across the country as incidents of defacing of campaign posters are on the increas...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

60 new magistrates undergo induction course

CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday commended the government for lifting the lid on public service recruitment, saying the move had enabled the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to hire an additional ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

POLITICS

Mohadi's brother dies

VICE-President Kembo Mohadi's young brother, Steven has died.Mohadi's wife Tambudzani, confirmed the death, saying the Vice-President's only blood brother died at a private hospital in Harare on Satur...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018

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