OPINION

2018 elections promise to be 'smart'

The Military Assisted Transition (MAT) took place in November last year. It is now six months into 2018 and seven months since the MAT. How are we doing? Our world has certainly changed and it is very...

By Eddie Cross | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Fissures in opposition could bolster Zanu PF victory

REPORTS of fissures in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance are regrettable given that for many years, opposition parties in the country have been known to shoot themselves in the foot - and at very cr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

'Zec, Zanu PF same,' says Mutsekwa

FORMER Home Affairs co-minister Giles Mutsekwa has sensationally claimed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) takes orders from the ruling Zanu PF party, hence its reluctance to implement oppo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Khupe party national appeal under spotlight

THE Thokozani Khupe-led faction of the MDC-T yesterday said it had fielded 110 out of the country's 210 parliamentary seats at stake in next month's general elections. The seats are more concentrated ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Mutare mayor accepts defeat in MDC-T primaries

MUTARE mayor, Tatenda Nhamarare, said he had conceded defeat to MDC-T's ward 8 candidate, Sophia Njanike Gwasira, but would remain a loyal party member although he had reservations over the way the pa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Expert calls for commodity-backed currency

ZIMBABWE should re-introduce its own currency backed by commodities since bond notes and dollarisation has failed, financial expert Persistence Gwanyanya has said. Speaking during the CEO Africa Round...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

OPINION

Why PPPs are evading Zimbabwe

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank have stressed that Zimbabwe's infrastructure gap requires investment amounting to $2 billion annually, following years of deprived investment and...

By Victor Bhoroma | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Elections stall property sector

LOOMING elections are stalling the property market as sellers and buyers have adopted a wait and see attitude on the outcome of those elections, a property expert has said. Speaking to NewsDay recentl...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance candidate faces arrest

HARARE magistrate Elisha Singano has issued a warrant of arrest against MDC Alliance's Mutare North parliamentary candidate Godfrey Munyamana who faces allegations of swindling a city man of $380 000 ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Zec drops poll bombshell

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has effectively shut the doors on opposition parties, saying they could only raise complaints over the quality of the voters' roll and other election-related ma...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Delma Lupepe faces jail over debt

PROMINENT Bulawayo business tycoon, Delma Lupepe, is set to be incarcerated over a $280 000 Ecobank debt, after he missed an ultimatum to settle the amount by March 21, 2018. Early this year, the fina...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Court orders miner off Chinese claims

THE High Court has ordered a local mining company, Blue Day Mine, to stop illegal mining activities at the Chinese-owned Bel-ore Mine claims in Inyathi, Matabeleland North province. The order came aft...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Rangers gun down suspected poacher

ZIMBABWE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) rangers last week gunned down one suspected poacher, recovered rifles and cyanide-laced cabbages and oranges in two separate incidents. ZimP...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

WATCH: CCTV sells out suspected thieves

FOUR suspected thieves who were last week captured on camera stealing a Point of Sale (POS) machine at a Zuva Petroleum pump station appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing theft ch...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

19 MDC Alliance supporters injured

NINETEEN MDC Alliance supporters were seriously injured after a truck they were travelling in overturned in Binga as they were coming from a rally addressed by their leader, Advocate Nelson Chamisa, a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Mujuru speaks on national healing

National reconciliation and healing will never be achieved in Zimbabwe as long as the issue on the 1980s disturbances in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces is swept under the carpet.People's Rainbow ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Calls for Kasukuwere's arrest

ZANU-PF Central Committee member Elifasi Mashaba has called for the arrest of former Cabinet Minister, Mr Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of duping Bulawayo residents over stands at Umvutshwa on the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

'Mugabe was told of missing diamonds'

PEOPLE'S Rainbow Coalition leader Dr Joice Mujuru has said ex-President Robert Mugabe's revelation that the country was prejudiced of $15 billion through underhand diamond sales should not been dismis...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

FreeZim wins t-shirts wrangle

THE High Court has ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to immediately release 50 000 campaign T-shirts which were seized from an opposition political party by police at Beitbridge Borde...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa swallows Dabengwa

ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has said his party is backing the candidature of MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa in the forthcoming election.Dr Dabengwa said Zapu and the MDC Alliance had s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

OPINION

Incentives remain an important FDI magnet

ONE of the key drawcards of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is the desire to transform Zimbabwe into a middle-class economy by 2030. Since taking over last November, the President has su...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Zec to unveil ballot printing company

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will this week unveil, before contesting political parties, the company that will print ballot papers to be used in the July 30 harmonised elections.In an interview y...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Zec says polls can't be stopped

THE forthcoming harmonised elections cannot be stopped for whatever reason with aggrieved candidates only able to challenge the outcome of the polls.This was said by Zec chairperson Justice Priscilla ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

No load shedding, says Zesa

THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) says there will not be any load shedding this winter.Speaking on the sidelines of a symposium held in Gweru, Zesa subsidiary, Zimbabwe Transmission and...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa cannot direct candidates to withdraw

THE MDC Alliance is mired in confusion after one of its co-principals and spokesperson Professor Welshman Ncube dismissed claims by MDC-T secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora that the coalition has b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

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