Free and fair elections calls for far-reaching electoral reforms
The voters’ roll should close three(3) days before the nomination date and there is therefore no reason why the voters’ roll used for elections should not be fully accurate and up to date. This is...
View ArticleActivist sends prison uniform to Bob
Turning 92 this month … President Robert Mugabe Q- What motivated your action to send this birthday parcel to President Mugabe? A- My birthday present to President Robert Mugabe is more of a silent...
View ArticleItai Dzamara: State disregards Constitution
Has been missing since March 2015 … Itai Dzamara Section 2 of the Constitution states that “the obligations imposed by this constitution are binding on every person, natural or juristic, including the...
View ArticleRENAMO gunmen shoot community leader
Cipriano Sineque, community leader of the Nhamatanda locality of Bebedo, and his son, 22 year old Antonio Cipriano, were shot at their home. Sineque was seriously injured in the area of his...
View ArticleHSB Suspends doctors executive
The ZHDA views these suspensions as a total joke and a sign that the HSB is being run by people who have no clue of what the Zimbabwean constitution says regarding employee rights. Section 65(3)...
View ArticleNcube’s MDC hit back at ousted SG
Attacked Welshman Ncube’s leadership … Moses Mzila Ndlovu Mzila Ndlovu was axed in a vote of no confidence during the party’s National Standing Committee in Bulawayo on Saturday. This was followed by a...
View ArticleHelp us eject Zanu PF, pleads Dzamara family
Patson was speaking to Journalists on the sidelines of a prayer meeting they held in Harare’s Africa Unity Square Tuesday to mark the 11th month of his brother Itai’s disappearance. He said Zimbabweans...
View ArticleHuman rights activists seek to meet Presidium over Dzamara
Missing activist Itai Dzamara BY OBEY MANAYITI Zimbabwe Divine Destiny leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya said they were eager to meet President Robert Mugabe or his two deputies, Emmerson Mnangagwa and...
View ArticleZhuwao condemns Moyo violence threat
Moyo threats deplorable … Patrick Zhuwao Zhuwao, a member of the politburo and President Robert Mugabe’s nephew, appeared to be referring to threats by war veterans to block ministers Jonathan Moyo and...
View ArticleParties indaba fails, Bishop frustrated
Political indaba push fails … Bishop Sebastian Bakare According to sources who were part of the NCP organising committee, Bishop Bakare felt that the project had been hijacked by other political...
View ArticleSA: Biti blasts govt on mining
Tendai Biti Rather, he says it enables “crony capitalism”. A law that indigenous people should control at least 51 percent of foreign-owned companies, was signed by President Robert Mugabe in 2008....
View ArticleWhere is Dzamara?
Itai Dzamara Instead, I’ve heard about chronic despair. The bus driver talked about being constantly afraid. The teacher talked about losing his farm. The businessman talked about corruption. The...
View ArticleZLHR corners school authorities to release pupils “O” level certificates
Officials at Townsend High School in Bulawayo had abused their authority by withholding Ordinary Level examination certificates for two sisters, Tanaka and Takudzwa Ngwasha, who completed their studies...
View ArticleWe have got to turn the cash around
While up there we paid a visit to a friend who runs a small farm and over tea she told me about her experience over the past 30 years, she said had learned that to survive “you have to turn the cash...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Of female artisanal gold miners
Well, this widely shared societal misconception ceases to exist the moment one runs into female artisanal gold miners, or gold panners, as they were once called. Olivia Chidzimba, 62, of Old West...
View ArticleBarclays pays $2,5m for sanctions breach
According to the Treasury, Barclays processed 159 transactions totalling around $3.4 million from July 2008 to September 2013 through financial institutions in the U.S., including the company’s New...
View ArticleNyusi promises continued efforts to speak to Dhlakama
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi Nyusi was speaking to a group of officers from the defence and security forces who came to the presidential offices to greet him on the occasion of his 57th birthday....
View ArticleGMO ban stays despite hunger, says Made
GMO ban stays … Agriculture minister Joseph Made Made told journalists that bio-safety laws will not be tinkered with to allow importation of genetically modified maize after the government Tuesday...
View ArticleGrace ally threatens Mnangagwa with death
Mnangagwa’s people violating us … Hurungwe East MP Sarah Mahoka Mahoka, who is the Women’s League secretary of finance, was addressing thousands of women gathered at the party’s headquarters. Speaking...
View ArticleUK: Zim Pastor’s sex convictions quashed
Sex convictions quashed … Walter Masocha Scotland’s senior judge, the Lord Justice General, Lord Carloway, said convictions against Walter Masocha would be quashed. Masocha, 52, had earlier been told...
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