Politics

Zimbabwe President and Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has retained the presidency of the country by a 52.6 percent margin. Mnangagwa swooped to victory with 2 350 111 total votes ahead of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa who amassed 44 percent of the election with 1 967 …

Political violence has reared its ugly head in Harare’s Glen View 7 following the stoning to death of a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist after a clash Thursday, police have confirmed. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said a statement detailing the actual circumstances will be released after …

CCC has spurned slots allocated to them by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) in terms of the Electoral Act while the party has also made “unrealistic” expectations on their advertisements by demanding that the public broadcaster do commercial productions on their behalf. This was said by Permanent Secretary for Information, …

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has trashed deputy information minister Kindness Paradza’s claims that opposition parties have abandoned free slots offered by the national broadcaster, ZBC to air their election campaign messages. Paradza told foreign observers and diplomats accredited to cover Zimbabwe’s August 23 polls that opposition parties were reluctant …

Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services has ignored a letter written to it by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights attorney Innocent Gonese over the misconduct of ZPCS officer Caroline Manjongo who has taken up a Zanu PF political post in violation of the constitution, The NewsHawks has learnt. In an interview, …

In a large hall at the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, women responded with roaring cheers when President Emmerson Mnangagwa described them as the party’s “backbone” whose votes are vital to victory in elections scheduled for August. At a recent opposition rally, women with the face of their male …

Zimbabwe’s honorary consul to Belarus, Alexander Zingman, a close associate of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, was the biggest winner in trade agreements signed in February this year by Harare and Minsk. Zingman, who sparked outrage last year when he got a US$62 million murky deal to …

Opposition United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) leader Elisabeth Valerio will now stand as the only female Presidential candidate in the August 23 polls after the High Court upheld her appeal against the decision by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to initially reject her nomination papers. Speaking soon after the judgment was handed …

The High Court ruling barring former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere from contesting in the August 23 polls is likely to have far-reaching implications on Zimbabweans in the diaspora who wish to participate in the upcoming elections, legal experts have warned. Last week, Kasukuwere was disqualified from contesting the upcoming presidential …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law that prohibits citizens from criticising the government, defying wide appeals for him to spare the nation of a piece of legislation viewed repressive by opponents. President Mnangagwa’s assent to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Act, 2023(No.10 of 2023) commonly referred to …