ZANU PF bigwigs are having sleepless after a recent security report showed that the ruling party had a 45% probability of winning the 2023 elections owing to supporters’ unhappiness with internal election outcome and failure to deliver after the 2017 military coup. The report revealed that the party’s strength, as …
Read More »Machete Gang Leader Charged Over Dead Body Found In Arlington Estate
Caged … Phelandaba Tshuma is the reported leader of machete gang, Maziga HARARE – A notorious machete gang leader has been arrested for the murder of a man whose body was found with deep cuts on the head close to Seke Road in Arlington Estate on January 8. Prosecutors say …
Read More »Minister Chitando In Messy Mine Grab Scandal
MINES and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando has been implicated in a messy mine ownership wrangle amid accusations he grabbed eight gold mining claims belonging to businessman Yakub Ibrahim Mahomed. Mohamed, who owns Anesu Gold (Pvt) Ltd, filed a High Court application seeking to interdict Chitando, Mines secretary Onesimo Moyo, …
Read More »Muchinguri Sweats Over Army Delinquency
Defence and War Veterans minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri The Supreme Court will on Tuesday 8 February 2022 hear an appeal filed by Defence and War Veterans Minister Oppah Muchinguri seeking to overturn a High Court decision upholding a lower court’s order regarding a lawsuit filed by a Harare resident seeking compensation …
Read More »Medicines Board Shuts Down Pharmacies Over Unauthorised Drugs
100 dollar bills, pills, and medicine containers THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has suspended four pharmacy supervisors and shut down three over suspected cases of illegal dealings. Pharmacies which have been blacklisted over the same period are Bright Pharmacy in Southerton, Goodhope Pharmacy along Jason Moyo Avenue in …
Read More »Government Threatens Teachers After ’90 Percent’ Boycott Work As Schools Open
Nothing to do … School children playing football at a school in Harare during a strike by teachers on February 8, 2019 (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo) BULAWAYO – The government threatened “appropriate measures” on Monday after one of the most successful work boycotts by teachers over poor pay. Seeking to downplay the …
Read More »Teachers’ Strike Cripples Education System On First Day Of New Term
Home bound … Pupils seen leaving Mafidhi Munangagwa Primary School in Kwekwe on Monday, February 7, after a strike by teachers shut down many schools HARARE – A pay strike by teachers disrupted learning on Monday as schools opened for the first term following Covid-19 delays. All the teachers’ unions …
Read More »JSC Commissions Virtual Court
Chief justice Luke Malaba (left) and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi (seated) The Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) has launched virtual courts to help clear a backlog cases caused by the failure to bring prisoners to court due to the COVID-19 outbreak, fuel shortages and other challenges. While addressing the delegates at …
Read More »Senegal Declares National Holiday To Celebrate Cup Of Nations Win
Sweet victory … Senegal players celebrate lifting the Cup of Nations in Cameroon on February 6, 2022 DAKAR, Senegal – Senegal’s President Macky Sall declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team’s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their victory against Egypt, public television announced. …
Read More »Mliswa, Mukupe Causing Divisions In Zanu PF
Outspoken Norton (Independent) legislator, Temba Mliswa Zanu PF activist and businessman, Wellington Peyama has blasted outspoken Norton (Independent) legislator Temba Mliswa for his alleged deceptive tendencies and feigned loyalty to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Peyama made the averments at a presser held in Harare over the weekend citing that Mliswa is …
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