By Staff Reporter LIFE has effectively come to a difficult standstill for the family of slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali as they cannot go to work and while some have been forced into hiding with suspected State agents hunting them down while their lawyer remains incarcerated. Family spokesperson Washington Ali, who
By Lenin Ndebele for News24.com A court has stopped a miner from prospecting for gold on a ranch owned by the Oppenheimer family. The Oppenheimers, through their company Shangani Holistic, turned to the courts after a South African firm Pearline Mineral Exploration started conducting an aerial geophysical survey of the property. The ranch employs 400 people
By Fin24.com HARARE: New gold coins, an interest rate at 200% – among the highest in the world – and jotting down the legal currency status for US dollars into law are all part of the latest money merry-go-round finance measures put in place by Zimbabwe to try to attract investors. Zimbabwe’s battered economy has
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Corespondent VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has fired salvos at opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over mounds of dirt found across the country’s major urban areas, which include graffiti that denounces his President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his Zanu PF party and government. Graffiti, used as a form of protest art, was
By Associated Press CAPE TOWN: South African former track star Oscar Pistorius has met with the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot to death in 2013, as part of his parole process, the Steenkamp’s family lawyer told The Associated Press on Friday. Lawyer Tania Koen said in a text message that Pistorius and
By BBCNews.com LONDON: A man has said he was left in agony after plastic tubing was left in his body after undergoing brain surgery. Kennedy Mugovera, 51, from Swindon, had the procedure at the University College London Hospital in 2016. After struggling to receive follow-up medical attention from the NHS, he went to doctors in
By Staff Reporter EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has unleashed another jibe aimed at the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa, in what could signify a waning relationship between the two, barely a year after the former offered his services to the opposition party, on a consultancy basis. Moyo, Thursday appeared to
By Leopold Munhende, Chief Correspondent THE Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC)’s rural mobilisation strategy which, for a while, received backlash from Zanu PF has reportedly left ruling party officials in Mashonaland province battling to save their political fortunes. The strategy, fronted by CCC secretary for rural mobilisation Happymore Chidziva has made significant inroads in the
By Staff Reporter OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole will spend more time in jail after their bail appeal was struck off the roll by High court judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi. The two legislators are being accused of inciting public violence in Nyatsime area, rural Seke, to avenge the
By Leopold Munhende, Chief Correspondent THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum) has cited Zimbabwe’s poor rights record as an indication the country is not yet ready to rejoin the Commonwealth following its unsuccessful application for re-admittance. In a statement addressed to the Commonwealth, whose heads of states meeting ended in Rwanda on Saturday,
By Mary Taruvinga, Chief Reporter NURSES have dismissed finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s raft of economic strategies, announced Monday and stuck to their earlier promise of downing tools in two weeks’ time if government fails to pay them in US dollars and improve working conditions. Public health workers went on strike a week ago, citing incapacitation,
By Alois Vinga THE Finance Ministry on Monday slammed greedy businesses amid revelations that Zimbabwe is on the path to realise a record US$12 billion in export revenue by year end. The remarks come shortly after recent investigations by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) exposed illicit dealings which resulted in the acquisition of multiple
By Alois Vinga FINANCE Minister, Mthuli Ncube on Monday traversed a tight passage as he balanced between the country’s pressing economic needs and the tide of rising inflation prompted by external factors and low confidence levels on the local currency. The treasury boss is currently battling surging inflationary pressures which have been worsened by the
By Leopold Munhende, Chief Correspondent CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa has weighed in on the debate about party structures, assuring supporters that “we know what we are doing”. Formed in January this year, the party has faced questions about not holding an elective congress, the apparent absence of a constitution and organisational
By Associated Press JOHANNESBURG: South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 20 people at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London early Sunday morning. It is unclear what led to the deaths of the young people, who were reportedly attending a party to celebrate the end of winter school exams.
By UK Correspondent & Agencies ZIMBABWE’S annual inflation rate quickened to 191.6 percent in June, more than doubling the consumer price increases of two months ago, official statistics showed Saturday. The development came as the government failed to present new measures to tackle the rising cost of living which President Emmerson Mnangagwa had said would
By UK Correspondent & Xinhua PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said Friday his government would announce new measures to address worsening cost of living challenges after the ruling party’s Women’s League told him that the “increase in prices is quite shocking”. President the league’s report at the ongoing Women’s League national conference in the capital, secretary for
By Staff Reporter HEALTH workers have called off their industrial action and given government 14 days to deliver on their demands of a US dollar salary and better working conditions. The decision came out of a crisis meeting held Friday, after four days of industrial action. In a statement released on the same day, the
By Leopold Munhende, Chief Correspondent DELISH Nguwaya, the Geogenix BV local representative, has vowed Harare city council will pay its ballooning debt to the controversial waste-to-energy company, despite the local authority’s resistance to the deal. His statement also follows a directive by the local government ministry to council, ordering it to settle its US$780 890
By businesslive.co.za From January 1 2023, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans and their children will no longer be able to live, work and go to school legally in the republic Three Zimbabweans who held Zimbabwean exemption permits (ZEPs), which the SA government has now scrapped, share their anxiety and anguish as they face deportation, uprooting
