By Idah Mhetu PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government on Tuesday announced yet another ambitious plan this time to transform the country’s mining sector into a US$12 billion industry in the next four years. Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa told a post-cabinet media briefing in Harare, that cabinet had received a paper from the Mines Minister Winston Chitando
By Anna Chibamu THE MDC has described as a de facto State of Emergency, the ban and police siege on city centres in which the party had lined up protest marches against rising poverty under the Zanu PF led government. In a statement Tuesday, MDC bemoaned dimming prospects of ever enjoying freedom of assembly under
Bloomberg Zimbabwe will issue new notes and coins soon to replace the country’s quasi currency that was introduced three years ago in a failed attempt to counter a crippling shortage of cash and that’s pushed inflation to the highest rate since 2008. The return to a fully fledged local currency exchangeable outside the country’s borders
By Bulawayo Correspondent BULAWAYO magistrate, Tinashe Tashaya Tuesday acquitted Bulawayo city council Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami and Ward Four councillor Silas Chigora following trial for allegedly assaulting Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube. Kambarami and Chigora were jointly accused of assaulting Dube while serving him with his suspension letter. Magistrate Tashaya acquitted the two councillors on
By Leopold Munhende THE Zanu PF youth league has accused US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols of sponsoring terrorism in the country and further called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reign in on the diplomat. At a press briefing in Harare on Monday, party secretary for the youth, Pupurai Togarepi accused Ambassador Nichols of meddling
By Leopold Munhende THE Zanu PF youth league Monday vowed to resist what it claimed was a plot by the MDC to overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government through attempts to stage anti-government demonstrations that have been blocked by the State on every turn. Addressing journalists at the Zanu PF headquarters, party secretary for youths, Pupurai
By Paidashe Mandivengerei PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to up his anti-corruption crusade with an awareness campaign to be launched in Harare Wednesday. While the Zanu PF leader is loud on attempts to wipe out graft that is crippling the economy, very little has been done by his administration in the same direction. The anti-corruption
By Midlands Correspondent POLICE on Monday banned the MDC’s Gweru demonstration, pilling more misery on a party that had seen similar protests in Harare and Bulawayo banned in quick succession. The MDC demonstration which the opposition party had set for this Tuesday, is among a series of planned anti-government protests the party had planned against
By Bulawayo Correspondent A BULAWAYO magistrate Monday upheld a police ban imposed Sunday against an MDC demonstration which had been planned for the country’s second largest city on Monday. Police Officer Commanding Bulawayo District, Chief Superintendent Elizabeth Phiri on Sunday issued a prohibition order barring the main opposition from holding an anti-government protest in the
By Midlands Correspondent A POLICE ban on an anti-government demonstration in Harare has not broken the spirits of party loyalists in Midlands who have vowed to stage their own protest in Gweru, the capital of Midlands, widely considered President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s backyard. The main opposition had organised protests against the country’s fast deteriorating economic situation
By Staff Reporter ZANU PF youths have called for a bash at the party’s main headquarters in Harare to celebrate President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s assumption of the SADC Troika chairmanship. A message circulated on social media by party youth league secretary general Godfrey Tsenengamu called on Zanu PF youths to congregate for celebrations. “You are hereby
By Bulawayo Correspondent LAWYERS representing some business groups, churches, and MDC, in a matter in which the main opposition was being challenged to stop its Bulawayo protest, were Sunday forced to abandon their court arguments following a ban issued by police against the Monday protest. This is after the groups had approached court with an
By Staff Reporter THE price of fuel has risen for the umpteenth time this year with a litre of diesel now $9.36 while the same quantity of petrol will now be $9.12. This is according to a circular sent by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) on Sunday. The new prices are with effect from
By Bulawayo Correspondent EMBATTLED former State Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has challenged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) to arrest incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former president Robert Mugabe, saying the two were also part of the presidency which allegedly abused power, the same allegations Mphoko is facing. ZACC investigating officers on Friday visited Mphoko at
By Bulawayo Correspondent OPPOSITION political parties in Bulawayo have strongly condemned the incarceration of firebrand Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni following his conviction on charges of destroying a villager’s property in Ntabazinduna 2017. Bulawayo magistrate, Gladmore Mushove Friday sentenced Ndiweni to 18 months in prison for damaging Fetti Mbele’s homestead. His other 23
By Staff Reporter THE Centre for Natural Resources Governance CNRG has called on the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate and hold to account, perpetrators of torture and extrajudicial killings in Marange diamond fields. The call comes after security guards of state-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) last week set dogs and seriously injured
By Robert Tapfumaneyi AN opposition politician has lashed out at Nelson Chamisa for the latter’s spirited attempt to delegitimise President Emmerson Mnangagwa when the MDC leader in fact endorsed the State president unintentionally. Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com Saturday, New Patriotic Front (NPF) vice president Welcome Shumba said the question of Mnangagwa’s legitimacy or lack of, was
By Alois Vinga ZIMBABWE’S business community has called on government to urgently address ordinary people’s concerns in order to avoid continuous loss of production time through protest shutdowns. The MDC had called for a massive protest in central Harare Friday to express growing impatience with government’s failure to remedy a deepening economic crisis that has
By Staff Reporter POLICE on Friday arrested 91 suspected MDC supporters who defied a ban on a party demonstration the main opposition had organised for central Harare on the same day. Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said in a statement Friday that the 91 were arrested for various offences arising from the illegal demonstration.
By Bulawayo Correspondent FIREBRAND Ntabazinduna traditional chief and fearless government critic Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni was Friday slapped with an 18 month jail term after having been found guilty of destroying a villager’s property. However, 23 of his co-accused escaped with lesser sentences of 525 hours each of community service at Ntabazinduna clinic and two other
