By Staff Reporter GOVERNMENT will this month pay civil servants a cushioning once-off allowance of $400 dollars per worker, on top of their basic salaries. This comes when the government workforce has intensified its demands for a living wage from their employer in the wake of rapid price increases that have rendered their salaries a
By Anna Chibamu MUTARE Central MP, Innocent Gonese Wednesday demanded an investigation into recent threats on the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa’s life by a state security officer. The MDC politician also said during parliament’s question and answer session that government should also update the nation on who carried out the shock assassination attempt against President
By Anna Chibamu A Chipinge white commercial farmer stunned MPs sitting in the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture Tuesday after breaking down while giving oral evidence and later requesting for a minute of silence for late war hero General Josiah Tongogara. Coffee farmer Richard Le Vieux in a cracking emotional voice while giving evidence on the
By Leopold Munhende A leaked audio that went viral on social media late Monday, reportedly bearing the voice of First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has raised alarm that President Mnangagwa’s administration is in danger of a coup. Mnangagwa rose to power in November 2017 on the back of a military coup that toppled his long time
By Paidashe Mandivengerei PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has roped in two former MDC legislators to help resuscitate his fight against rampaging corruption in the country. Mnangagwa officially announced eight officials as members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), Monday among them Jessie Majome and Gabriel Chaibva. Majome was, until 2018, the MDC MP for Harare West
By Masvingo Correspondent MDC leader Nelson Chamisa wants to lead Zimbabwe’s transition to a “new dispensation” but not before he forces President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the negotiating table. Chamisa told thousands of party supporters at Masvingo’s Mucheke Stadium that he will soon lead them in a programme of “political and diplomatic pressure” to force Mnangagwa
By Masvingo/Manicaland Correspondents THE ruling Zanu PF has wrestled the Nyanga South ward 26 seat from the MDC Alliance in a by-election which was held Saturday and retained Bikita Rural District Council ward 31 on the same day. In Nyanga South, ward 26 won by the opposition in last year’s elections, was won by Zanu
By Leopold Munhende SANCTIONS imposed on Zimbabwe by the US mirror the aspirations of Zimbabweans, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said. The measures imposed on former President Robert Mugabe and his administration in 2001 under the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera) which stand to this day have been blamed for the country’s economic
By Idah Mhetu PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come out swinging condemning the violent attack on Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo and his delegation in London Friday, by a group of protestors linked to the opposition MDC. Moyo had just addressed globally respected British think-tank Chatham House when he came under attack from angry protestors demanding
By Leopold Munhende ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson and recently confirmed chief elections officer, Utoile Silaigwana, will not manage elections in Zimbabwe again, opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa said Thursday. Chamisa was speaking at the party’s launch of the Return to Economic Recovery, Legitimacy, Openness and Democracy (RELOAD) policy document in Harare. “We are saying
By Tonderai Saharo BIKITA: MDC deputy national chairman Job Sikhala who is facing subversion charges connected to utterances he reportedly made at a party campaign rally in Masvingo last Saturday has been remanded in jail until July 24. Sikhala appeared before Masvingo Provincial Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa in Bikita with a handful of supporters milling outside
By Idah Mhetu MDC leader Nelson Chamisa in an audacious bid to undercut President Emmerson Mnangagwa, visited a newly completed clinic at the run-down settlement of Hopley, south of the capital a day before the Zanu PF leader is to officially open it. On Tuesday, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced Mnangagwa will Thursday
By Costa Nkomo TEMPERS are rising in Harare after Zengeza West MP, Job Sikhala charged with subversion over coup utterances allegedly made at a rally in Bikita, Masvingo failed to appear in court Wednesday afternoon before government announced he will be arraigned before a Magistrate, Thursday. MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, in a message on his
By Leopold Munhende FOREIGN Airlines have met President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance Minister over continued failed attempts to repatriate to their countries, over US$100 million paid by locals towards airfares. International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General Alexandre de Juniac (pictured below) on Monday told the media they had to call for the crisis meeting
By Alois Vinga BUSINESS leaders Monday took turns to dress down Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya for allegedly causing chaos in the national economy through policy summersaults. At a business breakfast meeting in Harare, the business leaders said the two controversial officials’ policies did not speak to the needs of
Aljazeera The move was bold, and many did not see it coming. In a bid to defend the new and fledgling Zimbabwean dollar against black market speculation, the country’s finance minister on June 25 outlawed using United States dollars and other foreign currencies in local transactions. When news of the policy broke, Harare-based independent economist
Bulawayo Correspondent BULAWAYO City councillors and management Friday walked out on Energy Minister Fortune Chasi who was chairing a stakeholders meeting which rubberstamped plans by the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) to demolish the city’s two iconic cooling towers without consulting them. The councillors, led by Mayor Solomon Mguni, told the Minister that they were fed
By Costa Nkomo MDC leader Nelson Chamisa Friday brought panic among Chikurubi Maximum Prison officers who first blocked him before seeking permission to allow him into the high security compound. The opposition leader was making a surprise visit to party activists who are serving time for killing a senior police officer during ugly clashes by
By Staff Reporter PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) founder and preacher Walter Magaya’s upmarket hotel in Harare’s Waterfalls suburb has gone up in smoke. While details around the fire were still sketchy late Thursday, videos and pictures of the hotel that has become the symbol of the self styled prophet’s new found wealth went viral
By Leopold Munhende INFORMATION Minister Monica Mutsvangwa Wednesday appeared fighting in China’s corner, assuring a tiles manufacturer from the Asian economic giant the “xenophobic type” debacle involving the company’s security employee and a local traditional chief will not dent relations between the country and its ally. Mutsvangwa was speaking during her visit together with two
