POLITICS

Voters' roll inspection closes, 100k register to vote

Inspection of the provisional voters' roll ended yesterday, with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) recording over 100 000 new voter registrants.The inspection began on May 19 and the electoral b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Matebeleland South ready to host Mnangagwa

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will visit Matabeleland South Province on Saturday, where he will tour projects in Gwanda and Beitbridge areas and address people from the province.In an interview, Matabeleland So...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Tongaat employees clash with resettled farmers

Over 200 Tongaat Huletts Zimbabwe employees here were last week involved in fierce clashes with scores of resettled sugarcane farmers who wanted to take over their houses at Hippo Valley Estates.Riot ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt approves setting up of industrial parks

GOVERNMENT has approved the setting up of industrial parks which will result in the development of innovations by higher and tertiary students to process and manufacture products.In an interview, the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Government recruits nurses

GOVERNMENT has recruited 240 new nurses in Manicaland to improve the staff complement in public hospitals.In April, the Ministry of Health and Child Care gave hospitals permission to recruit more nurs...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimplats to lease claims to ranchers

Zimplats has made a request to Mhondoro-Ngezi Rural District Council for permission to lease some of its mining claims for commercial ranching.According to the request, the local authority is set to b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

SME complex opens in June

LISTED construction firm Masimba Holdings is putting final touches to the construction of Old Mutual's $21,4 million Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) centre in Harare, targeting its official opening ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe election to be held on July 30

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly announced that the country will hold its general elections on July 30.The elections would be the first since the ouster of former president Robert Mugabe fo...

By Ngoni Shenjere | Published: 30 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa's anti-graft blitz loses steam

The anti-corruption crusade rolled out by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he assumed the top office late last year is losing steam as the mighty and powerful are finding ways of escaping the long ar...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T sued over $286,000 debt

The MDC has been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay back $286 000, advanced to it by a local firm in 2016.According to court papers, sometime in 2016, the MDC borrowed $331 800 from Ishline ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T now blaming China for rigging 2013 elections

The opposition MDC-T has made a sensational claim that an unnamed Chinese company was involved in the alleged rigging of the 2013 harmonised elections, a U-turn from previous claims that an Israeli fi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

OPINION

Vigilante groups must be disbanded

Elections are the hallmark of representative democracy, allowing the people's regular input in choices about leaders and policy. Yet, they are also competitive processes, unleashing conflict and tens...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF panics

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's call for a Zanu-PF indaba to heal wounds emanating from its just-ended chaotic primary elections is a sign of panic amid fears for another bhora musango scenario reminis...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe faces arrest

Ousted former president Robert Mugabe risks going to jail for continuing to ignore directives by Parliament to give evidence on the disappearance of $15 billion diamond revenue, with the august body y...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

OPINION

Chamisa must act on the vanguard

The chaos and violence which were witnessed in the MDC's primary elections, just like what happened in the Zanu-PF internal voting, highlight a very worrying culture of failing to disagree in a manner...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF quartet in court for robbery

FOUR suspected supporters of the Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson Kazembe Kazembe were on Monday hauled before a Bindura magistrate Miriam Banda facing charges of robbing a haulage t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa warns wife Auxillia

ZANU-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned his wife, First Lady Auxillia, against interfering with his official duties, saying she should not be like her predecessor Grace Mugabe, who had ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Prison officer in soup for 'praising' Chamisa

A PRISON officer based in Chiredzi has been summoned to appear before the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services internal disciplinary hearing after he allegedly heaped praises on main opposition ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa in no hurry to arrest Kasukuwere

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba yesterday said government was not in a hurry to arrest former Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, who returned to Zimbab...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa, Mujuru cosying up

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and National People's Party (NPP) president Joice Mujuru are moving towards joining forces in order to fight President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party as a cohesive unit a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

No law, court can stop Mnangagwa, says Chief Justice

THE President is obliged by the law to proclaim dates for the harmonised election within the prescribed period and neither a court of law nor any individual, for whatever reason, can stop him from per...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF plot to gang up against Kagonye

SOME disgruntled Zanu-PF losing candidates in Goromonzi South are reportedly mulling to pick an independent candidate to stand in the harmonised elections against Petronella Kagonye whom they accused ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Erect Nkomo's statue in Harare, family appeals

THE Joshua Nkomo Cultural Movement (JNCM) has appealed to the Government to erect a statue of Father Zimbabwe, the late Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo, in Harare.JNCM chairperson and son to Dr Nkomo, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

SA returns Rhodesian Cabinet files

SOUTH Africa has returned Rhodesian Cabinet files and others State papers dating back to 1927 that Ian Douglas Smith took to that country following the collapse of his regime and these will be officia...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

POLITICS

Khupe to subpoena Chamisa's youth militia commander

THE Dr Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T is planning to subpoena the commander of the so-called Vanguard youth militia, Mr Shakespeare Mukoyi, from the rival Mr Nelson Chamisa camp, to tell the court of the g...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 May 2018

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