POLITICS

Chamisa's UK trip draws mixed feelings

MDC-T president Nelson Chamisa this week continued his momentum to consolidate his leadership of the MDC Alliance with the high-profile visit to London, where he met United Kingdom senior government o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's debt strategy: 6 options on the table

ZIMBABWE has commissioned a local think-tank which is exploring six options of settling its US$12 billion external debt through negotiations led by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The process wil...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe farmer's escape from death's jaws

AFTER spending 80 years on the same farm, building a school that the late Defence minister Moven Mahachi once attended, the Smart family thought nothing would uproot them from this property they had g...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

OPINION

Chamisa's rude awakening - Hardtalk

MDC-T and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had the opportunity to be grilled by Stephen Sucker - traditionally known to take no prisoners - on BBC Hardtalk and his responses have drawn divergent vie...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe opposition leader dies in car crash

AN aspiring Presidential candidate in the forthcoming general election has reportedly died in a car crash on his way from South Africa to Zimbabwe on the eve of the launch of his political party.Josph...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF bigwigs set for another bruising battle

ZANU-PF bigwigs are set for another bruising battle in the ruling party's primary elections rerun set for next Monday.The spotlight would be on Mashonaland West where poll reruns will be held in six c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Rigging evidence unearthed in Harare East

As emotions continue to run high in Zanu-PF over the chaotic manner in which it ran its primary elections, officials in Harare East constituency have "unearthed'' evidence of rigging involving Univers...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa rails Mnangagwa over ballot papers

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's promise of a free and fair election saying if he was sincere he would not be rejecting opposition demands for an open tender for ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Court ordered to resolve Chamisa-Khupe row urgently

The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the High Court to urgently resolve a feud between the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC camp and  a rival camp led by Thokozani Khupe which is insisting on using  th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Chombo going to SA for medical attention

AILING former Finance minister, Ignatius Chombo is seeking further relaxation of his bail conditions, a Harare court heard on Friday.He told the court through his lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku that soon he...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Government recalls fired nurses

Government has recalled nurses that it had discharged from service, Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has said.He said the health professionals have since resumed their duties."I would...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa is 'new face of the old order', says Chamisa

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not delivering change in the country after the years of Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has said.He told HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur: "He h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa raises war veterans' pension

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has committed to increasing the allowances paid to former liberation war fighters, NewZimbabwe.com reported.Addressing hundreds of war veterans in Harare,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

OPINION

Chamisa: real change possible only 'when I become president'

WHEN Robert Mugabe was ousted in a coup in 2017 after three decades in power, many in Zimbabwe hoped that his downfall would spark a new era of democracy and prosperity in a country wracked by corrupt...

By Newsweek magazine | Published: 12 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt slashes allowances for doctors, nurses

GOVERNMENT has reneged on the agreement it entered with the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) which saw their on call allowances being increased to $1 200 in March.According to NewZimbabwe....

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Strategic street to be named after Tsvangirai

THE Masvingo City Council is proposing to rename one of the city's busiest streets in the Central Business District after the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, NewZimbabwe.com reported.The motion t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa pleads for war vets support

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to increase pensions paid to war veterans as well as the timely release of school fees for their children while at the same time requesting their support in t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF members told not to abuse campaign regalia

Zanu-PF Harare Province has urged its members to desist from abusing the party's campaigning regalia as distribution has kicked off.The campaign trail has now set off for the ruling party following th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo-Plumtree highway perimeter fence commissioned

The government through the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe has completed the erection of a perimeter fence for the 100 kilometer stretch of the Bulawayo-Plumtree highway in a move that will signifi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe opposition urged to boycott polls

OPPOSITION parties in Zimbabwe need to create a crisis that will result in international intervention to come up with conditions for a free and fair election, a leading academic has said.Speaking at a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Dangote's prospects in Zim remain on track

Nigerian billionaire Mr Aliko Dangote's billion dollar prospects in Zimbabwe remain on track as the famed richest man in Africa scouts for massive coal and lime opportunities.The reality of this ventu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

Villagers recount Grace Mugabe's terror

ONE September night last year, Derick Amos dropped off at Mazowe from a car he had hiked along the Harare-Bindura highway."It was around 8pm and I was coming from Harare Central Hospital where my moth...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

ZPRA war vets snub Mnangagwa

ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army Veterans Association's leadership yesterday boycotted a national war veterans meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Harare, complaining that they were not f...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

'Mnangagwa surrounded by criminals'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa was now surrounded by criminals and the Zanu-PF faction associated with former President Robert Mugabe was still alive in the former guerrilla movement, war veterans charg...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

OPINION

Zanu manifesto a botched attempt at party renewal

Under "normal" circumstances, one would have expected the programme line-up for Zanu-PF's manifesto launch to feature a cameo appearance by its long-serving former first secretary, Robert Mugabe.That ...

By Enocent Nemuramba | Published: 12 May 2018

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