By Mary Taruvinga FORMER Mines Minister, Walter Chidhakwa has revealed that former State President and close relative Robert Mugabe died a sad man. He was addressing mourners, among them several Heads of State and Government, at a funeral ceremony held in honour of the country’s founding leader, who died aged 95 in Singapore over a
By Paidashe Mandivengerei LATE former President Robert Mugabe will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Sunday, family spokesperson Leo Mugabe has said. Mugabe’s nephew said the decision on whether it will be a public or private funeral rests with traditional leaders from Zvimba, Mugabe’s rural home. “Yes I can confirm that there has
The Guardian THE family of Robert Mugabe has said he will be buried in his home town in private, in an apparent snub to the government, which wants to inter him at a national monument. Leo Mugabe, a nephew of Zimbabwe’s late ruler, said the ceremony would probably be held early next week in Zvimba
By Matebeleland North Correspondent MDC leader Nelson Chamisa should consider recruiting youths for military training if he was entertaining any thoughts of taking over power in Zimbabwe, the party’s supporters in Matebeleland North have said. Angry party supporters still smarting from government’s decision to ban countrywide demonstrations and the deployment of the military in January
By Paidashe Mandivengerei PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party cannot lay claim to owning former President Robert Mugabe because the former guerrilla movement expelled him, MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa has said. Addressing journalists at a press conference in Harare Tuesday, Chamisa said Mugabe’s death is not a party event and Zanu PF has no
By Bulawayo Correspondent The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has sent students on forced vacation to “mourn” its former Chancellor and former State President Robert Mugabe who died in Singapore last Friday. According to an internal memo from the University‘s Information and Public Relations Affairs, the campus will be closed from September 12 to 15 September
By Leopold Munhende DIVISIONS have emerged within the MDC on how to react to former State President and Zanu PF strongman Robert Mugabe’s death in Singapore on Friday. While the party’s leadership including president Nelson Chamisa have suggested it would be uncultured to pour scorn on the late leader, the youth assembly is calling for
By Ebenezzer Sibanda AN aircraft company in Zimbabwe has failed to pay the feared Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), forcing President Enmerson Mnangagwa’s aides to approach the courts for relief. Central Air Transport Services (CATS) has allegedly failed to pay US$40 827.59 and $6 000 for aircrafts it hired from the President’s Office. CATS is an air
By Idah Mhetu FORMER President Robert Mugabe will be laid to rest on Sunday at the national heroes acre in Harare, a day his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa will be celebrating his birthday and turning 77 years of age. Sunday is Mnangagwa’s 77th birthday. While the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was not specific as to where
By Anna Chibamu ZIMBABWE’s political crisis has once again attracted the attention of global political leaders with The Elders now looking at ways of bringing to the negotiating table heckling parties in the country. The Elders a group of eminent international politicians known was in the country last week to try and kick-start a sticky
By Costa Nkomo GOVERNMENT has dispelled social media reports it had opened doors for G40 kingpin and ex-Cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo and other exiled members of the now decimated Zanu PF faction to return home for former President Robert Mugabe’s funeral. Generation 40, as the faction was commonly referred to, was a Zanu PF camp
By Leopold Munhende MDC President Nelson Chamisa says his party has lost one more voter following the passing of ex-Zanu PF leader Robert Mugabe Friday morning. Chamisa was speaking to international broadcaster Al Jazeera on Mugabe’s life and legacy Friday afternoon. “We acknowledge the contribution made to the country in the liberation of our country and also
By Mary Taruvinga ZIMBABWE will observe an indefinite period of national mourning following the death in Singapore of the country’s founding leader Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Friday. Mnangagwa told journalists after cutting short his trip to the African leg of the World Economic Forum in Cape Town South Africa that Mugabe the ruling
By Richard Chidza FORMER President Robert Mugabe has died. He was 95. State radio reported early Friday that Mugabe had passed away but little detail was yet readily available. Mugabe has been in Singapore where he was receiving treatment for unknown ailments but for years the former Zanu PF leader had had problems with reported
By Mary Taruvinga PROSECUTOR-General (PG), Kumbirai Hodzi Thursday appeared before Harare Magistrate, Morgan Nemadire to answer to bribery allegations amid accusations that he unlawfully stopped the trial of a Harare man who allegedly used high-profile people’s names to swindle unsuspecting clients of various amounts of money. Hodzi on Wednesday ordered the trial of Leon Gomani
By Mary Taruvinga FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has demanded that his criminal abuse of office case be tried in Bulawayo setting the stage for a bruising battle with prosecutors. Mphoko appeared before Harare Magistrate, Hosea Mujaya for his routine remand after his case was transferred to Harare from Bulawayo. He is answering to a
By Costa Nkomo GOVERNMENT has finally reacted to the current wave of violence rocking neighbouring South Africa describing it as barbaric and warning citizens travelling to that country to take necessary precautions. On Tuesday Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa told a post-Cabinet media briefing that Cabinet had not discussed the issues and President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled
By Leopold Munhende ZIMBABWEAN doctors, nurses and other workers within the country’s ailing health sector will nolonger be allowed to go on strike but shall only be permitted to stage demonstrations for some few hours before returning to work. This is contained in government’s proposed amendments to the Health Services Amendment Bill revealed at a
By Costa Nkomo SUSPECTED Zanu PF militant supporters Monday assaulted Chitungwiza mayor, Lovemore Maiko at council offices after serving the Town Clerk George Makunde with a suspension letter as the Zanu PF Mashonaland central provincial executive member faces abuse of office and incompetence. Ahead of the aborted Chitungwiza full council meeting Monday, mayor Maiko recounted
By Mary Taruvinga MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government against pushing his party too far as witnessed by a continued State crackdown, telling party followers Sunday that the main opposition was only restraining itself from an armed retaliation against the abuses. He was addressing thousands of party supporters who
