By Mary Taruvinga FORMER President, Robert Mugabe’s widow, Grace has challenged the case in which she and her late husband are being accused of confiscating a truck belonging to Sun Marine Shipping (Private) Limited after chasing away its driver. The incident allegedly occurred back in 2014 when Mugabe was still in power and soon after
By Idah Mhetu THE United Arab Emirates government, in partnership with Estonian e-Health experts, has unveiled a hospital computerisation programme that seeks to improve operations within Zimbabwean public health institutions with Sally Mugabe Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) set to anchor the pilot project. Speaking during a tour of the hospital by Health Minister Obadiah
Xinhua Zimbabwe’s Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) is down to below 100,000 tons of the staple maize from the mandatory 500, 000 tons following a drought last year, a cabinet minister said Wednesday. Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri said the SGR was depleting, state news agency New Ziana reported. “As things stand,
By Leopold Munhende GOVERNMENT has repossessed exiled former Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere’s Mazowe farm in Mashonaland Central province for “downsizing and re-planning purposes”. Kasukuwere, also a former Cabinet Minister, was part of Zanu PF’s G40 faction that was against then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ambitions to replace the now late President Robert
By Staff Reporter MDC Mbare MP, Starman Chamisa is reported to have sought refuge at Matapi Police Station, in Harare as suspected Zanu PF youths bayed for his blood, the party claimed Wednesday. According to MDC deputy national spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, dozens of Mbare residents have also been attacked by machete wielding Zanu PF youths,
By Anna Chibamu FORMER MDC-T vice president Obert Gutu has been linked to the mysterious post of High Court prosecutor, days after ditching the Thokozani Khupe led opposition party citing “personal and private reasons”. Social media is awash with the one-time deputy justice minister now ready to take up the job. A tweet by @Klawry3
By Anna Chibamu ZIMBABWE’S unsettled junior doctors have finally accepted to be part of Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa training fellowship offer in which the mobile telecoms mogul last year set up a $100 million fund which sought to grant $5 000 each to 2 000 junior and senior doctors employed by government on top of
By Bulawayo Correspondent THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has acquired 100 000 tonnes of maize from South Africa and Brazil with the first consignment of the staple starting to trickle into the country early next week. Speaking to journalists soon after meeting various stakeholders in Bulawayo Tuesday, GMAZ chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara said the
By Thandiwe Garusa MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has chided President Emmerson Mnangagwa for encouraging suffering locals to turn to vegetables and potatoes as opposed to meat. Chamisa was delivering his State of The Nation Address and the MDC’s 2020 Agenda at Stodart Hall grounds in Mbare Tuesday. Earlier this month, Mnangagwa told residents during a
By Paidashe Mandivengerei SENIOR public hospital doctors Monday said they will not be performing complex surgeries on patients until medical equipment is availed to them. Senior doctors downed tools in November last year in solidarity with their junior colleagues who had gone for almost three months on strike while demanding improved wages and working conditions.
By Mary Taruvinga A bid for an out-of-court settlement between Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife, Marry has collapsed after the parties could not reach an agreement on how to settle their messy fallout that has dominated newspaper headlines since December last year. On Tuesday, the two warring parties were back at the
. By Staff Reporter POLICE have barred MDC from sloganeering and toy toying during this Tuesday’s State Of the Nation Address (SONA) by party president Nelson Chamisa. The mini rally is slated for Mbare’s Stodart Grounds, Harare. According to a police clearance letter sent to the party, MDC has been told not to chant any
By Bulawayo Correspondent ANTI-RIOT police were Monday called in to disperse a demonstration by students at Bulawayo’s Njube High School who took down the national flag and further brandished President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s portrait in protest over a recent steep increase in tuition fees. The demonstration was also a show of disgruntlement by the young learners
By Thandiwe Garusa GOVERNMENT, on behalf of troubled national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, on Monday took delivery of a Boeing 777 aircraft bought from Malaysia. The plane is said to have been in operation for more than 10 years before being retired by the Malaysian Airways in 2016. The late former president Robert Mugabe is
By Idah Mhetu ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga has urged Zimbabwean motorists and public transport operators to be mindful of their passengers’ safety as the carnage on the country’s roads continues. In a statement Monday, the country’s substantive VP expressed his condolences to the families of 16 passengers killed Saturday when a General Bande bus collided
By Anna Chibamu TENSIONS are high in Harare ahead of MDC President Nelson Chamisa launch of the party’s State of the Nation Agenda (SONA) 2020 road-map in the highly volatile suburb of Mbare. Last week, police barred Chamisa from holding the launch at Mai Musodzi Hall also in Mbare claiming they were busy with the
By Robert Tapfumaneyi MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe Sunday met Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo in Harare where the two politicians jointly condemned sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West and the US while calling for their immediate removal. Khupe met Moyo in her capacity as the chairperson of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) International Re-engagement
By Bulawayo Correspondent THERE is an unprecedented rush for Mopane worms in Solusi and Khami on the outskirts of Bulawayo as high meat prices force consumers to look for alternative sources. However, the rush is also causing serious environmental damage and over exploitation of the insects, a development which experts believe could lead to either their extinction
Matabeleland North Correspondent TOURISM players and churches in Victoria Falls Sunday said they were making frantic efforts mobilising resources to donate to victims of flash floods in Hwange Monday, as about over 50 affected families spent a second night in temporary shelters in the coal mining town after their homes extensively destroyed by the torrential
By Makanaka Masenyama/Bulawayo Correspondent OBERT Gutu, who resigned Saturday as Vice President of the MDC–T led by Thokozani Khupe, has dismissed as false, claims that he has ditched the MDC breakaway group to join Zanu PF. Gutu made the shock announcement Saturday morning and social media was set ablaze with most Zimbabweans speculating that he
