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

POLITICS

'Togarepi intimidates rivals'

ZANU-PF youth league leader and Gutu South National Assembly aspiring candidate, Pupurai Togarepi stands accused of intimidating and threatening villagers in the constituency whom he suspects of not s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF candidate Mutodi turns prosecutor

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and Zanu-PF's Goromonzi West parliamentary candidate, Energy Mutodi who spent the better part of last year commuting to Harare Magistrates' Court facing various all...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Obert Mpofu subpoenaed

BULAWAYO magistrate Gladmore Mushove yesterday ordered the State to subpoena Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu (pictured) to court to testify in a case where he stands accused of inciting a Ntabazindu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance candidate challenges Zec advert

MDC Alliance's Bulawayo South parliamentary candidate, Muvirimi Francis Mangwendeza, has dismissed a recent Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) notice claiming that he was one of the 24 candidates who...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

'Chamisa a slippery politician'

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

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Brace for extreme cold!

ZIMBABWEANS should brace for an extreme cold spell as reports show temperatures will go as low as 3 Degrees Celsius especially in the southern region.In a statement yesterday, the Meteorological Servi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance candidate 'withdrawn' without his consent

AN aspiring MDC Alliance Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South Mr Muvirimi Francis Mangwendeza is in limbo after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission yesterday published his name among a list of candid...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa bomb: Cops dragnet closing in on suspects

POLICE Commissioner General Godwin Matanga yesterday said two suspects were arrested in Bulawayo in connection with the White City Stadium terror attack at the beginning of an intense investigation to...

By Staff rpeorter | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Vic Falls unveils carnival line-up

This year's Victoria Falls Carnival, which is in its seventh edition, has been launched with organisers saying they have added another day, specifically for the Victoria Falls community.Over the past ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

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