By Leopold Munhende KEMBO Mohadi cited a wrong section of the constitution while announcing his resignation as the country’s Vice President, constitutional law Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said. Mohadi was hounded out of the top office by a string of sex scandals that were exposed by a local news site. In announcing his resignation, the
By Staff Reporter ZANU PF has made sensationally claims that the majority of high-ranking officials in the MDC Alliance-led by Nelson Chamisa are set to defect the biggest opposition and join the ruling party by the end of 2021. Last week, a senior official in Chamisa’s camp Lilian Timevos, an ardent follower of the outspoken
Bloomberg BUSINESS executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe, a sea change from the pessimism they’ve expressed through two decades of economic mismanagement and institutional decay. The southern African nation is reaping the benefits of a commodities boom and good summer rains that are bolstering farm output. A series of reforms spearheaded by Finance Minister
By Costa Nkomo FORMER Zanu PF Politburo member and Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo has described as strategic, the continued silence maintained by MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa despite facing determined attacks from different fronts against him and party. Since the Supreme Court in March last year stripped him of his right to be heir to
By Robert Tapfumaneyi CELEBRATED United States- based Zimbabwean Chimurenga musician and human rights activist, Thomas Mapfumo, has appealed to the international community to immediately intervene and stop what he calls an “ever-rising crisis” in Zimbabwe. In a long emotional letter, Mapfumo, a fierce critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime, said citizens were “sold a dummy”
GroundUP SHINGIRAI Musekiwa and Elton Chibhebhe fled Zimbabwe to come to South Africa because they are gay. Now based in Langa, the activist couple is fighting for the human rights of Zimbabwean homosexuals and the repeal of section 73 of the Zimbabwean Constitution which criminalises homosexuality. They’ve dubbed their movement Zimbabwe LGBTQ+ Crusader and say
By Anna Chibamu PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zimbabweans to get vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic or they will soon be barred from all public spaces. Zimbabwe rolled out the national immunisation programme last week after receiving a donation of 200 000 Sinopharm doses from China. Speaking in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North province Thursday, Mnangagwa
By Mary Taruvinga MDC Alliance Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe and scores of party youths Thursday staged a flash demonstration outside the Harare Magistrates’ Courts demanding the release of activist Makomborero Haruzivishe. Haruzivishe was arrested at gunpoint last week and was in court Thursday seeking kidnapping charges raised against him to be dropped. During the
Xinhua THE Covid-19 pandemic has worsened Zimbabwe’s pre-existing socio-economic challenges, with urban centres now on the frontline of the current rise in acute hunger, the World Food Programme said Thursday. In a statement announcing a donation of US$4.5 million from the Japanese government for emergency food assistance, WFP country director and representative Francesca Erdelmann said
Reuters ZIMBABWE will buy an additional 1.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from China at a preferential price, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson said on Wednesday, after Beijing agreed to give more free doses to the southern African country. Zimbabwe began Covid-19 vaccinations last week after receiving a donation of 200,000 doses from the China National Pharmaceutical
By Staff Reporter VICE PRESIDENT says allegations against him that he was involved in intimate relationships with various women are false and well-choreographed attempts to demean and soil his image. Addressing a press conference at his Munhumutapa government offices Wednesday, Mohadi said he was a victim of political machinations through hacking and voice cloning. “Following
By Anna Chibamu ZIMBABWE’S lawmakers have demanded that they be vaccinated immediately against Covid-19 as they are a top priority and frontline personnel at risk of contracting the deadly virus. The MPs have questioned why the government has not included them in the high risk sector of people being vaccinated against the scourge. MDC Alliance
By Staff Reporter YET another audio recording of Vice President Kembo Mohadi negotiating for sex with a different woman has gone viral on social media. The recording follows a few more taped ones in which the country’s top government officials either vows his undying love for an intimate subordinate or is inviting some married women
VOA ZIMBABWE’S information tsar, Nick Mangwana, has been attacked on Twitter for suggesting that married women are free to have affairs outside wedlock. In a tweet that has set the social network on fire, Mangwana made the remark while responding to a tweet by a person, who described Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s alleged sex scandals
By Anna Chibamu FORMER Local Government Minister Ignatious Chombo (70) was Monday arrested over criminal abuse of office and fraud charges. He is detained at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare. A state outline seen by newzimbabwe.com state the former cabinet minister is facing five counts of criminal abuse of office charges. It is alleged he
By Staff Reporter YET another audio conversation between Vice President Kembo Mohadi and a Bulawayo lover has gone viral on social media. In the latest audio, Mohadi is heard trying to put up a romantic tone and inviting his “honey” to the Holiday Inn hotel in Bulawayo. He tells his girlfriend, said to be a
By Bulawayo Correspondent AS the nation commemorates Robert Mugabe National Youth Day this Sunday, political parties have expressed mixed feelings towards the late strongman’s legacy with some crediting the once fierce ruler for keeping the military out of national politics. Mugabe was dethroned in a popular military assisted coup November 2017. February 21, which is
By Bulawayo Correspondent SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has escalated its bid to restore the Mthwakazi Kingdom through an appeal to newly elected American President Joe Biden to use his world influence to grant their wishes. The party, through its president Mqondisi Moyo, recently wrote to Biden pleading with him to use the superpower’s influence
Agencies A RUSAPE man died early this week after a swab inserted in his nostrils as part of a Covid-19 test got stuck inside and was rushed to theatre for an operation which saw him fail to regain consciousness. The deceased Arnold Mapiye (47) famously known ‘DJ Bhinya-Bhinya. He is said to have complained of
By Nkosana Dlamini VICE President Kembo Mohadi’s shocking love romps with married mistresses have been laid bare in two leaked phone conversations in which the country’s number 2 is heard inviting his sex toys for unprotected sex in his government office. This comes after yet another love scandal the philandering VP has been having with
