Politics

The bail appeal by lawmakers Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole suffered a setback on Wednesday when a judge removed it from the roll over incomplete documents. Justice Munamato Mutevedzi said he could not proceed to hear the matter in the absence of the transcribed record of proceedings from the Magistrates …

ZAPU has accused the government of reducing the supply of the Zimbabwean bond notes on the market in an effort to manipulate the exchange rate. The opposition party said the government is aware that the pricing of goods and services locally was indexed to the exchange rate, so when the …

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday declared that he will rule the country after elections expected next year. Addressing scores of mourners at the burial of the late constitutional law expert and academic Alex Magaisa in Mangisi Village, Chikomba district in Wedza, Mashonaland East province, Chamisa (44) …

The Department of Home Affairs has accused the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and NGOs of trying to “dislodge” the government in response to the notice that the foundation intended to take the department to court over its handling of the conversion of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) to visas. “This development …

Opposition political parties have demanded that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya resign, accusing them of crafting anti-poor policies that are worsening the plight of the majority in the country. Economists yesterday took a dig on government’s 200% interest rate hike on bank …

Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has revealed that Parliament has no documentation proving that Harare and Belarus signed an agreement to procure fire tenders on behalf of local authorities as initially claimed by government. This follows Local Government ministry secretary Zvinechimwe Churu’s letter to all councils informing them of a …

ZIMBABWEANS are increasingly vulnerable to political violence as the country draws nearer to the 2023 general elections which have now become “a nightmare” and an “assurance of violence” that could hinder development and progress, ZimRights says in a new report. The report, titled Zimbabwe on the Brink: Living in Fragile …

In March 2018, Belarus’ autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko dispatched his right-hand man Viktor Sheiman to Zimbabwe to negotiate trade and business deals on the government’s behalf. Sheiman has been one of Lukashenko’s closest allies ever since the 1994 electoral campaign that brought the strongman to power. After Sheiman returned from …

ZIMBABWE and Belarus have become close allies, united by commercial and diplomatic interests — including shady deals between their leaders — all being carefully cultivated by the far-flung Eastern European country’s controversial tycoon Alexander Zingman. MOSES MATENGA Tellingly, Zingman is close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. …

A dark cloud has engulfed the Nyatsime area of Chitungwiza following the death of two senior Zanu PF officials under unclear circumstances, with one of them alleged to have been poisoned while the other succumbed to a stress-related illness after his house was recently burnt down by CCC supporters. The …