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The ruling Zanu PF party yesterday said it was making frantic efforts to engage Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema over social media rants targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government by the neighbouring country’s ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) staff. Zanu PF acting spokesperson Michael Bimha told a media briefing …

The Chinese Communist Party has passed a “historical resolution”, cementing Xi Jinping’s status in political history. The document, a summary of the party’s 100-year history, addresses its key achievements and future directions. It is only the third of its kind since the founding of the party – the first was …

A 2012 investigation of the then mines minister Obert Mpofu by a group of investigative journalists from Canada concluded that he was “in the top five landowners in Zimbabwe”, and in Matabeleland “his holdings come second only to the 135,000 hectares owned by the Oppenheimer family.” With an eye-popping catalogue …

Murewa Rural District Council, Chief Executive Officer Alois Gurajena (48) has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), Nhau has learnt. Gurajena was arrested for allegedly sub-dividing a farm before allocating stands to desperate home seekers without following procedure. In a statement, ZACC spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure alleged that …

A top military commander whose daughter’s offer letter for a Form 1 place at top Harare school, Dominican Convent, was withdrawn for refusing to pay fees in United States dollars has gone to court challenging the decision which he says is unlawful. Air Vice Marshal Michael Moyo, who is also …

Several pupils have dropped from school  in Mandamabwe area, Masvingo Province, due to early child marriages, parents have said. “Many girl children who get into early marriages are a result of being orphans. They are being abused resulting in forced marriages,” Privilege Gurajena, a parent from Mhande village  in Ward 8 told Business …

The deteriorating economic situation in Zimbabwe will likely be felt by the already ailing companies and restive Zimbabweans going into 2022 owing to a hostile business environment and high-country risk which threatens investments and growth prospects, captains of industry warned. However, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Mthuli Ncube, believes 2021 …

Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has revealed liberation war veterans are set to receive end-of-year bonuses denominated in United States Dollars, a privilege not extended to civil servants. The move is widely seen as aimed at appeasing the restive and easily irritable veterans of the 1970s liberation …

‘He has delivered no single promise since he was elected’‘It’s time for true Banket sons to represent us’ An article recently published in an online magazine, Spiked, has opened a can of worms in Zanu PF politics (Mashonaland West), attracting a strongly worded response from a grouping of Banket residents, …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime has broken its contract with the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs and hired Actum International UK, which was set up last month by a band of Mercury alumni led by Kirill Goncharenko. Zimbabwe signed the US$90,000-a-month lobbying contract with Mercury in 2019, and it was renewed most recently …