By Bloomberg News Zimbabwe began formal trading of what’s effectively a new currency as it tries to ease a shortage of dollars that’s crushed the economy. The initial rate for the southern African nation’s currency, known as RTGS dollars, will be 2.5 per U.S. dollar, central bank Governor John Mangudya told business leaders Friday in
By AFP WHILE it’s unlikely that many Zimbabweans yearn for former ruler Robert Mugabe’s return, the occasion of his 95th birthday on Thursday has led some to see him in a softer light. “Comrade Bob” was toppled from 37 years in power in November 2017 following a brief military takeover that saw him replaced by
By Mary Taruvinga MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday attacked President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly meddling in the courts adding that the incumbent was more cruel than his predecessor Robert Mugabe. Chamisa was addressing the media outside the Harare magistrates’ court soon after party MP and deputy national chair, Tendai Biti was handed a wholly
By Staff Reporter AN Amnesty International top official says President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s weekend threats of renewed clampdown on dissenting voices are a “sinister hint” on worse off persecution soon to befall government critics. Addressing thousands of party supporters at a ‘thank-you’ rally in Mwenezi on Saturday, President Mnangagwa admitted deploying the military to ostensibly to
By Audience Mutema A 30-year-old Harare businessman was Monday dragged before a Harare magistrate for allegedly duping his church mate out of his cash and goods while purporting to be a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation. According to prosecutors Dumisani Muchirahondo also claimed to be a close friend to president Mnangagwa’s son, Collins. He
By Bulawayo Correspondent STAFF at Mlondolozi Women Prison in Bulawayo on Saturday barred MDC national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo and her delegation from visiting party members incarcerated at the penal facility. Khumalo who was also accompanied by relatives of the imprisoned activists said the delegation had brought sanitary pads and other food stuffs to the inmates.
By Anna Chibamu ZANU PF’s controversial Chegutu West member of parliament (MP) Dexter Nduna must resign immediately after appearing to threaten a rival legislator with death, the opposition MDC has said. Nduna rowed bitterly in during a parliamentary committee hearing with independent Norton MP Norton Mliswa with the latter repeatedly calling the Zanu PF legislator
By Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ominously vowed to go after doctors and nurses who treated victims of the brutal police and military crackdown against protestors last month. Addressing a rally at Rutenga in Masvingo Saturday, the Zanu PF leader claimed that doctors and nurses had been put on standby as part of preparations
By Matabeleland North Correspondent UMGUZA: Hundreds of families have been left homeless after the government launched a crackdown on people who illegally settled on various farms countrywide. In Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, some 240 families at Stoncroft Farm had homesteads torched by the owner of the farm which they occupied more than a decade ago.
By Agencies RESCUERS have pulled the bodies of at least 22 illegal gold-miners out of shafts at Battlefields that were flooded earlier in the week, and rescued eight more alive, officials and witnesses say. The accident involving about 70 miners happened on Tuesday night and has shone a light on the risks run by illegal gold-miners,
By Idah Mhetu COMBINED operations to retrieve bodies of deceased artisanal miners from two disused mine shafts in Battlefields, Kadoma began Saturday with five bodies recovered by evening. Police and members of the Civil Protection Unit combined forces with artisanal miners and mining firms to bring to the surface, 8 survivors and bodies of the
By Leopold Munhende in Battlefields FIVE dead bodies of artisanal miners were Saturday retrieved from a disused mine shaft in Kadoma after they were trapped inside shafts Tuesday by floods. Twenty more are still underground and awaiting lifting to the surface. Officials from government’s Civil Protection Unit (CPU) Saturday combined forces with artisanal miners and
By Leopold Munhende in Battlefields EIGHT artisanal miners who were trapped in a flooded mine tunnel in Battlefields since Tuesday, have been retrieved alive but looking traumatised by the ordeal. Visibly exhausted, muddied and worn out, the survivors were saved this Saturday morning at around 7am following brisk efforts to drain water from the tunnels
By Staff Reporter ONE of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated authors, Charles Mungoshi has died. He was 71. His death was confirmed by the family in a statement Saturday morning. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing away of our dearly beloved father, Dr Charles Mungoshi (71). “He had been ill for ten years,
By Kingston Ndabatei ZIMBABWE’S unrepentant government faces renewed European Union (EU) sanctions in the wake of recent army killings and claims of rape, among some serious rights violations pinned on the Emmerson Mnangagwa led administration. In resolutions made by the influential EU Parliament late Thursday, the bloc wants sanctions that were suspended three years ago
By Robert Tapfumaneyi Victoria Falls: Speaker of the national assembly Jacob Mudenda has bemoaned lack of depth and economic literacy among his MPs. Mudenda was addressing some local and foreign chief executive officers gathered for the 6th edition of the CEO Africa Roundtable conference in Victoria Falls Thursday. The Zanu PF top official went on
By Anna Chibamu NORTON MP, Temba Mliswa was Wednesday dragged out of parliament when he rowed with deputy speaker Tsitsi Gezi whom he accused of siding with Zanu PF MPs. This is after the fiery politician had stood to demand a murder probe to be instituted by parliament against Zanu PF MP for Chegutu West,
By TimesLive THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Monday weighed in with support for Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa. The support by SADC for Mnangagwa, political observers said, was likely to anger the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) which had been hopeful of the censure of Mnangagwa by the regional bloc. The 76-year-old president
By Staff Reporter INDEPENDENT MP for Norton, Temba Mliswa had a nasty fall-out with Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna with the former threatening to castrate the Zanu PF legislator. The incident happened during a meeting by the Mines and Energy Committee chaired by Mliswa. Mliswa is infuriated by claims made via the Herald that his
By Kingston Ndabatei PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has scoffed at reports that an influential British lawmaker wants the UK to withdraw its support for Zimbabwe’s application the Commonwealth. Mnangagwa told French television channel France24.com in an interview on the side-lines of African Union (AU) summit currently underway in Ethiopia that Britain’s opinion is not law within
