AFP US President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to guarantee that he will transfer power if he loses the November election, earning scorn from his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and even from within his own party. “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump responded when asked at a White House press conference
VOA A HARARE magistrate has confined recalled Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, Joanna Mamombe, to prison pending a mental evaluation. Bianca Makwande ordered Mamombe, who claims that she was abducted and sexually abused by suspected state security agents early this year, to be evaluated by two doctors. Mamombe was arrested when she did not appear
Xinhua PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday thanked his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa for calling for the lifting of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe. Ramaphosa made the call Tuesday at the start of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday. He made the call in his capacity as the African Union
Mining.com Russian-Zimbabwean platinum venture Great Dyke Investments (GDI) has cleared an important hurdle to develop what it would be the African nation’s largest platinum mine. GDI, 50% owned by Russia’s Vi Holding and Zimbabwean investors, said the African Export-Import Bank had completed a due diligence study allowing it to proceed with a $500 million funding program
By Costa Nkomo FIREBRAND MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala Wednesday demanded the closure of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison saying the country’s biggest jail was unfit for human habitation. Chikurubi, a highly fortified prison, some 15 kilometres east of Harare, is home to over 2 000 men classified as dangerous prisoners who are said to be
By Staff Reporter KNOWE residents in Norton are baying for the blood of former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) colonel, Todson Ruramai, who they accuse of clinging on to the association’s chairmanship and abusing their subscriptions. Knowe is an upmarket suburb where the late music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi lived until the time of his death last
By Idah Mhetu ZANU PF Secretary for External Affairs Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has said the ongoing onslaught against the ruling party by opposition forces was also an attack on the ANC of South Africa. The former minister of foreign affairs also accused local opposition parties of working on removing Zanu PF from office but said the
By Robert Tapfumaneyi THE involvement of the military in Zimbabwe’s civilian politics has turned out to be an “extreme disaster”, former Zanu PF politburo member and ex-minister, Patrick Zhuwao has said. The politician, now in self-exile in South Africa, made the comments Wednesday in a letter to the ANC secretary-general, Ace Magashule appreciating the role
By Mary Taruvinga HARARE magistrate Bianca Makwande is expected to hand down her ruling on an application by the state seeking mental examination for Harare West legislator Joanna Mamombe. The state applied for her to be examined by at least two government medical doctors to determine her mental fitness to stand trial. Mamombe is facing
African News Agency PRETORIA – Two people appeared this week in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court in connection with the murder of Ocean Basket seafood restaurant owner Lizette Deacon and her mother Hettie, the NPA said on Tuesday. Sophy Mmako, who was a domestic worker for the slain Deacons, appeared in court on Monday with her
Reuters TOXINS in water produced by cyanobacteria killed more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year, officials said on Monday as they announced the result of an investigation into the deaths which had baffled and alarmed conservationists. Cyanobacteria are microscopic organisms common in water and sometimes found in soil. Not all produce toxins but scientists
University World News STUDENT leaders say they are living in fear after the Zimbabwe government recently arrested a number of students, including a prominent student union leader, and was accused of being behind the abduction and torture of another. President of the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) Takudzwa Ngadziore (22), a student at Great Zimbabwe
By Anna Chibamu CONTROVERSIAL Norton independent MP Temba Mliswa Tuesday urged other legislators to speak good about the late former Agriculture Minister Perrance Shiri as it was inhuman to talk evil of someone who cannot defend themselves. Shiri, who once served as an army commander during the Gukurahundi atrocities, died on 29 July due to
By Alois Vinga THE MDC Alliance has threatened to stage a fresh broad-based confrontation against the Zanu PF-led government in the wake of deteriorating socio-economic conditions. In a communique signed by party national spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere after the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, the MDC Alliance reveals it is gearing towards a sustained confrontation against
By Anna Chibamu PROGRESSIVE Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general, Raymond Majongwe has accused the government of being scandalous to its response to the plight of teachers. With schools set to reopen next Monday after a nearly six-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, teachers in public schools are demanding a review of their salaries
By Costa Nkomo GOVERNMENT Tuesday announced schools will re-open starting next week but the process will be done in phases starting with learners who are due for final examinations this year. However, Education Minister Cain Mathema said he was unaware teachers were planning not to report for duty in protest over poor salaries and working
By Alois Vinga THE Zimbabwe dollar firmed by $0.21 cents as it strengthened against the United States dollar amid sustained stability. It closed Tuesday’s Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign exchange auction at $81.49 from the previous week’s $81.70. This marks a record three times since the local currency first gained against the US dollar when it
BBC Zimbabwe’s Zimbaqua mine is the first of its kind in Africa to employ entirely a female workforce. In addition to sourcing the gemstones, the miners are being trained in cutting and polishing, which allows them to increase the value of the gemstones themselves. According to the African Minerals Development Center (AMDC), at least 40-50%
By Staff Reporter FORMER Midlands Minister Jason Machaya was Tuesday sentenced by a Gweru magistrate to four years in prison on criminal abuse of office charges. Machaya and former Midlands physical planner Chisayinyerwa Chiburur were Monday found guilty of abuse of office involving the sale of state land in Gokwe. On Tuesday Magistrate Charity Maphosa
VOA A ZIMBABWEAN human rights lawyer says the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa is unlikely to seek a court order to stop the Thokozani Khupe MDC-T from using the Alliance to field candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary and council elections. In an interview, Matshobana Ncube said seeking a court order in
