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Renamo politician assassinated in Nampula
The victim, Jose Almeida Murevete, was a Renamo member of the Nampula Provincial Assembly. He was killed early in the morning, when the gunmen attacked his house in an outlying Nampula neighbourhood....
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Tsvangirai is right on candidate choice
Morgan Tsvangirai As expected, some opportunistic political parties with no grassroots support were up in arms following the Tsvangirai led MDC’s resolution to field a candidate with a real chance of...
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2017 National budget comments (Part 2)
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa Here is the point: Budget Expenditures USD 4.1 billion = 28.2% of GDP Of which employment costs will take USD 3billion This will leave only USD400 million for all...
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Dear Father Christmas
I got the idea to write to you from a friend who’s been in exile in the Diaspora for many years. Like four million other Zimbabweans in the Diaspora he’d love to come home but wouldn’t survive if he...
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Appointment of Chief Justice and move to change the constitution
Anticipating the coming vacancy, the Judicial Service Commission [JSC] in mid-October began the procedure laid down by section 180 of the Constitution for the appointment of a new Chief Justice. Under...
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The portrait is falling
With considerable trepidation, I took the lift to the sixth floor of the ministry of justice in central Harare to interview the minister. It wasn’t just that I lacked the accreditation foreign...
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Frelimo calls renamo to lay down its arms
Speaking at the closing session of the last sitting this year of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, Talapa stressed that dialogue, and not violence, “is the main path for solving...
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Mudodo and Mawire shine in Zambia
This was a schools chess individuals chess tournament a second edition after the first one was held in Gaborone, Botswana last year. The two best players from Zimbabwe played for the under 11 girls...
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2018 Zimbabwe general election set to record intensive violence’
The organization’s director, Gabriel Shumba, told reporters in Johannesburg that their assessment of the current political situation in Zimbabwe indicates that the next election won’t be free and...
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Who is abusing Mugabe?
President Mugabe Electing to die in power demonstrates that President Mugabe does not care about his legacy, at all. He does not care about his colleagues that have been around him for many years....
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Linda Masarira saga reveals tribal tension
Linda Masarira Bigger issues than Linda Masarira’s remarks Enough has already been said about Masarira’s alleged infraction. I have no wish to remark on correctness or incorrectness of Masarira’s...
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Why Zimbabwe land reform has failed to remedy rural hunger
BEVERLY PETERS Governments throughout the world have found difficulty devising economically successful land tenure models that incorporate landless populations meaningfully into food and cash crop...
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Renamo attacks prison and coal train
According to the spokesperson for the Manica provincial police command, Elsidia Filipe, the gunmen stole uniforms from the prison guards, handcuffs and cell phones, as well as setting the prisoners...
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Bloody boundary clashes
The villagers who have over the years used the now disputed piece of land said Green Fuel security guards came aboard two trucks and pounced on innocent villagers threatening them with prosecution for...
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Nyusi pledges to work for lasting peace
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi Speaking at the traditional end-of-year reception in the Presidential gardens, Nyusi, in a clear reference to Renamo, attacked those Mozambicans “who advocate a...
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No truce over christmas, says Dhlakama
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama In an interview published in Thursday’s issue of the independent daily “O Pais”, he was asked whether the attacks would cease over the Christmas and New Year period. “It...
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Diamond ring shame: Zim judge orders Grace Mugabe to return seized property
High Court judge Clement Phiri on Wednesday ordered President Robert Mugabe’s wife to remove her representatives from the properties that she seized after Lebanese national Jamal Ahmed failed to repay...
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Grace Mugabe’s diamond ring dealer threatened
Grace Mugabe was taken to court by Jamal Ahmed after she took over three of his properties, demanding that he repay the $1.35m she had paid for a diamond ring that she then decided she did not want. On...
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Zimbabwe ships live elephants to wildlife parks in China
Elephants in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/REUTERS The founder of Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, Johnny Rodrigues, said on Friday that their plane was still at...
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Trump ally Carl Paladino wants Obama dead, Michelle in Zimbabwe cave
Carl Paladino speaks to members of the media at Trump Tower, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) The failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino made the comments in...
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