OPINION

Democracy is about quality, not quantity

The ruling by Chief Justice Luke Malaba that formation of a political party is not a business for funding through the public purse to enrich individuals is a welcome caveat given developments we have ...

By Farirai Machivenyika | Published: 31 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Feonirich seeking to invest in Victoria Falls

The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) and the Tourism ministry have welcomed the visit from a United Arab Emirates based investor, Feonirich LLC who is seeking to invest in projects in Victoria Falls. ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 May 2018

POLITICS

Polling station-based voting legalised

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has taken the final step needed to give legal effect to polling station-based voting.Chigumba has done so by gazetting the requisite ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

ZACC turns Bulawayo unit into 'charge office'

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) offices in Bulawayo are currently being manned by police officers as lack of resources continue to hamper the operations of the anti-graft body.This, how...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

'Khupe and Gutu must go hang'

MDC Youth Assembly vice president Shakespeare Mukoyi said he will not testify against party leader, Nelson Chamisa, in his battle against Thokozani Khupe for the control of the country's biggest oppos...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Black market fuel back

BLACK MARKET fuel dealers have resurfaced in Harare in recent weeks following the sharp rise in oil prices on the global market, which hit the Zimbabwe market the hardest.Unlike neighbouring countries...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa receives Smith's Cabinet files

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Wednesday officially received records mainly Cabinet minutes and security reports that were unlawfully removed from public offices and exported to South Africa by former Rhodesi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

July 30 elections 'a major test for Mnangagwa'

Zimbabwe will hold nation-wide polls to elect the president and members of parliament's lower house on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in an official publication on Wednesday.The elections ...

By AFP | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwean diaspora cannot vote from abroad

The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) today ruled that the Zimbabwean diaspora cannot vote from abroad.The Court had reserved judgment in a matter in which three Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora are s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa taken head-on over Gukurahundi

TWO Matabeleland-based opposition parties have launched a campaign to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to provide restorative justice to victims of Gukurahundi before even consideri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Fist fight over Mukupe's alleged rigging

VIOLENCE broke outside the New Government Complex in Harare yesterday when Zanu-PF youths aligned to Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe clashed with students from various tertiary institutions who...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

OPINION

Local government elections must be held separately

It's election year again and the usual suspects are out there promising everything to everyone, everywhere they go.Pertinently below the rubble, of harmonised elections lies a very important plebiscit...

By Dumisani O Nkomo | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T extends primaries deadline

OPPOSITION MDC-T has resolved to extend the deadline for its primary elections to end of this week to allow for aggrieved party members to lodge their appeals.The party commenced its candidate selecti...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T raises red flag over voters' roll

MDC-T has raised alarm over the provisional biometric voters' roll, demanding that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) should release the provisional roll in electronic analysable data so that the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe ouster exhibition for Bulawayo

AN exhibition that gives local artists a platform to reflect on and interrogate, the solidarity march that contributed to the ouster of former President Robert Mugabe on November 21 last year is set t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa assents to Ziscosteel Bill

President Mnangagwa has assented to the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel (Debt Assumption) Bill enabling Government to take over its approximately $500 million debt it owes to various local and foreign credito...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's business partner jets in

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's business partner and former British Cabinet minister, Peter Hain, arrived in Harare last night as part of the Moti Group's drive to promote their chrome mining business ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Time to push out military rule, says Welshman Ncube

MDC leader Welshman Ncube has urged the electorate to vote out President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "military-captured" government in the upcoming general elections or risk entrenching military rule for the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga's 'bhora musango' headache

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday rallied warring Zanu-PF camps to bury their differences, stemming from the just-ended divisive party primary elections, to avoid a repeat of bhora musango...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Majome, Mudzuri given lifeline

THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T has succumbed to pressure from two of its top leaders, Jessie Majome and vice-president Elias Mudzuri and placed them on the party's Senate list after they refused to part...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

129 parties on Zec sample ballot paper

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has printed a sample ballot paper with 129 political parties intending to participate in the 2018 elections as part of body's preparations for the polls.Zec cha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

'Gun threats' at MDC-T primaries

AN aspiring MDC-T councillor in Bulawayo allegedly pulled out a pistol and threatened to shoot party supporters for allegedly holding primary elections in a constituency he claimed was reserved for yo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T appeases senior party members

THE Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T has resolved not to subject some senior leaders to primary elections in a bid to quell growing discontent over the party's internal polls in which some big guns lost.Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt assures public on fuel prices

The Ministry of Energy and Power Development yesterday assured members of the public that Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) will monitor the market and ensure compliance to regulated prices ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Rwanda's Paul Kagame doesn't know Chamisa?

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has exposed Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa for lying that he helped him with the ICT policy.Chamisa told a rally last week that he met Kagame in Geneva and t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

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