By Leopold Munhende MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has described as stupid, protests by hordes of suspected party supporters who took to the streets August 1 to demand the announcement of all the results of the July 30 election with fears of rigging by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission on Zanu PF’s behalf. Chamisa said this at
By Anna Chibamu POLICE say they have instituted investigations into the killing of six civilians during the August 1 post-electoral violence in what could further rile the opposition which claims a government cover up plot of state excesses. The civilians were killed by what is widely believed to be soldiers deployed on the streets of
By Leopold Munhende EX-MDC MP Gabriel Chaibva returned Tuesday to haunt his erstwhile colleagues through sensational claims they armed some party youths to kill two people during the August 1 post-electoral violence. Chaibva was making submissions before the Kgalema Motlanthe chaired Commission of Inquiry into the violence that rocked Harare’s CBD soon after the July
Business Report HARARE – Inflation is on the rampage in Zimbabwe, with the year on year rate for the month of October spiking by as much as 15.46 percentage points to 20.85 percent, Zimbabwe Statistics (Zimstats) said on Tuesday, further highlighting the scourge of price hikes emanating from rising parallel market currency rates in the
By Nkosana Dlamini THE MDC has accused the state of plotting to kill its President Nelson Chamisa through stage managing a road accident involving the opposition leader. Party spokesperson Jacob Mafume said on Monday that suspected state security agents were now in the habit of keeping “apartheid” style surveillance on Chamisa and attempts to impede
By Staff Reporter & AFP THE government publicly denied claims Sunday that its spy agency had attempted to kidnap main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa as he left a rally in Marondera this weekend. Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the claimed abduction bid was possibly just a case of “road rage”, adding that the individuals involved
By Idah Mhetu MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume says party leader Nelson Chamisa has escaped a dramatic abduction attempt by suspected state security agents. The incident happened near Mabvuku, Harare when the MDC convoy was just returning from a party rally in Marondera. Some armed persons are said to have waylaid and blocked Chamisa’s car and
By Audience Mutema DOZENS of teachers on Friday marched to Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s office to demand a minimum wage of $3 000 dollars or have their current salaries pegged in US dollars. The educators, who comprised Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) members, also demanded the immediate scrapping of government’s 2 percent tax on
By Bulawayo Correspondent RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya says he is making sacrifices to keep the country’s economy afloat and wants some gratitude from Zimbabweans for his heroics. “Some of us have gone out of our way to get this economy running. It is about time that the people of Zimbabwe are
By Business Live THE government has started a land audit to cut farm sizes, flush out multiple farm owners and correct some of the mistakes from its chaotic land reform programme. The effort is an attempt by the government to redress the damage caused by its land seizures that started in 2000. Recently lands, agriculture, rural
By Anna Chibamu A MAN claiming to be slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son has been languishing at Harare Remand Prison since 2014 when he came to the country as an asylum seeker, NewZimbabwe.com has established. The man says he came to Zimbabwe to seek political asylum and expected to be put in a refugee
By Staff Reporter FORTY seven people died on the spot Wednesday evening while dozens were injured in one of the most horrific accidents in Zimbabwean road transport history. The death toll is expected to increase. Police spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, said the tragedy occurred some 20km from Rusape when two buses crashed head-on.
By Court Reporter EMBATTLED former Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister, Supa Mandiwanzira, was Wednesday freed on $2 000 bail but placed a complaint over police’s decision to detain him at “filthy” Matapi police cells. Mandiwanzira stands accused of abusing his authority as ICT minister by ordering government telecomms firm NetOne to pay $5 million to
By Staff Reporter FORMER ICT Minister Supa Mandiwanzira, arrested Tuesday on criminal abuse of office charges, was later locked up at the notorious Matapi Police Station pending his court appearance this Wednesday. Both police and his lawyers confirmed the Zanu PF MP for Nyanga South was spending a night in police cells. “Yes he is
By Leopold Munhende POLICE chief spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba has played down wide beliefs police were subdued and rendered dysfunctional by the army during last November’s military take over that forced out long serving President Robert Mugabe. She was speaking at a media stakeholders meeting organised by the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ)
By Kwekwe Correspondent TEACHERS are this week plotting industrial action and street protests to register their discontent with a government they see as unresponsive to their concerns. Civil servants have been demanding that the administration pays their salaries in United States dollars as the surrogate Bond Notes and RTGS currencies continue to plunge in value.
By UK Bureau FOREIGN affairs minister Retired Lieutenant General Sibusiso Moyo is yet to return to work, nearly two months after he was rushed to an upmarket Harare hospital with an undisclosed health complaint. The coup spokesman’s unexplained illness has curiously coincided with vice president Constantino Chiwenga also being side-lined by poor health. Chiwenga, then
By Court Reporter PROPHET Walter Magaya and his workers flushed through the toilet system and further tried to burn containers of the preacher’s HIV/Aids “cure” when they got wind of an impending police raid on his Malborough premises in Harare, a court heard on Friday. The Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder is in the
By Staff Reporter UNDER-FIRE preacher Walter Magaya has issued an apology for “rushed” claims he had discovered a cure for HIV/Aids, telling a joint media briefing with the Health Ministry Thursday that he made the announcement out of “excitement”. The Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder invited strong rebuke from government, the United Nations and
By Anna Chibamu POLICE raided the Harare offices of prominent preacher Walter Magaya Wednesday evening to collect samples of his alleged cure for HIV and Aids, a deputy minister has confirmed. Over the weekend, Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) ministries leader Walter Magaya claimed to have discovered a cure for HIV and AIDS. Magaya said
