POLITICS

MDC Alliance escalates voters roll war

MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti yesterday warned that Zimbabwe could slide into chaos if next month's elections are rigged.Addressing hundreds of people in Mutasa Central, Biti accused the Zimbabwe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

OPINION

'Zanu-PF hoodwinked us'

Seven months after helping President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrestle power from his mentor Robert Mugabe, war veterans are crying foul claiming there is a plot to sideline them in Zanu-PF.The war veterans ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

POLITICS

Shiri warn 'terrorists' behind Mnangagwa bomb

AGRICULTURE minister, former Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) commander Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri yesterday warned those behind the "terrorist" explosion that rocked the Zanu-PF campaign rally at Wh...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

EDUCATION

Minister lashes out at headmasters

PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima has rapped some heads for failing to implement the new education curriculum and also provide basic maintenance of their school infrastructure.Mavim...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

POLITICS

Joshua Nkomo's son not ready for politics

SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, son of the late Father Zimbabwe, Vice-President Joshua Nkomo has said he was not yet ready to join mainstream politics, although he came from a family with a strong political backg...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

North Park Traffic Centre commissioned

TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development minister Joram Gumbo on Friday commissioned the North Park Traffic Centre in Bulawayo to provide bicycle and scooter operation training for children and also ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

POLITICS

Rural teachers take Zanu-PF to court

The Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is seeking a High Court interdict to stop Zanu-PF from forcing them and their pupils to their rallies.In an urgent chamber application for an ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

AfCFTA targets 22 ratifications by year-end

THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is targeting to secure 22 ratifications by end of this year to pave way for a single continental market with a billion consumers, a Zambian minister ha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

OPINION

Violence, bomb attacks unacceptable, regrettable

THE cowardly grenade attack on Saturday at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's campaign rally in Bulawayo is most regrettable and must be strongly condemned for what it is, especially for a country with no...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa bomb blast a typical ploy to tarnish Matebeleland

ZAPU has described the blast which rocked White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday during a Zanu-PF rally as an act of terrorism meant to tarnish Matebeleland province.According to the police, 49 pe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2018

POLITICS

Jonathan Moyo warns Mnangagwa after 'bomb attack'

EXILED former higher education minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has reminded President Emmerson Mnangagwa of his own violent power grab after the latter was apparently targeted by a suspected bomb bla...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance fears crackdown after election rally bombing

pposition leaders in Zimbabwe fear the bombing of a ruling party election rally on Saturday will serve as a pretext for a wide-ranging crackdown by the government or the military in the southern Afric...

By theguardian | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

SADC 'to evaluate Zim rally blast and take appropriate steps'

South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa, who also chairs the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has condemned the bomb blast which left at least 41 people injured in Zimbabwe, saying that th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe rules out state of emergency after Mnangagwa bombing

Presidential spokesperson has ruledg out a state of emergency after an explosion at the president's campaign rally on Saturday that state media has called an assassination attempt.George Charamba tell...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Police offer reward for info on Mnangagwa bombing

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says expert teams are firmly on the ground investigating yesterday's explosion at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo and is offering a reward to anyone with information lea...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Calls for state security on presidential candidates

NCA presidential candidate and constitutional law expert, Professor Lovemore Madhuku says there is need for the state to provide security for all presidential candidates in the 2018 harmonised electio...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa to expel defiant independent candidates

The Nelson Chamisa led MDC said it is likely to expel its members who filed papers at the nomination court as independent candidates.In line with the law, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission had given a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Cash shortages now Zim's major election issue

The leader of Zimbabwe main opposition party, Nelson Chamisa, alighted from his car, grabbed a microphone and made a bold promise to scrap bond notes if he wins the July 30 presidential election to st...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Knives out for Chigumba

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) faces its sternest test to date as opposition political parties contesting next month's polls have temporarily shelved their differences to demand a raft of ref...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

'BCC 'cuts water supplies to sabotage Mnangagwa rally'

THE ruling Zanu-PF party has accused the opposition-controlled Bulawayo City council of sabotaging its campaign rally at White City Stadium by cutting water supplies to the venue.The local authority h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa calls assassination attempt 'cowardly act'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa was unscathed Saturday by an explosion at his Bulawayo campaign rally that state media called an attempt to assassinate him, later visiting his two injured vice presidents...

By AP | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa condemns attack on Mnangagwa

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday led the condemnation of the blast at a rally addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa where nine people, including government officials, were injured yest...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Mujuru, Khupe in battle to be Zim's first female president

Former vice-president Joice Mujuru and ex-deputy prime minister Thokozani Khupe present the best chance for Zimbabwe to get its first female leader, but the two will have to move mountains for them to...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

OPINION

Mugabe-organised starvation during Gukurahundi

This paper explores an episode of state-perpetrated extreme mass violence and atrocities in south-west Zimbabwe in the 1980s, with specific focus on Matabeleland South between February and April 1984,...

By Hazel Cameron | Published: 24 June 2018

POLITICS

Victory is certain, says Mnangagwa

ZANU-PF is certain of victory in next month's harmonised elections and the plebiscite to be held on 30 July will be a mere formality, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Addressing thousands of Zanu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

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