Politics

Trolling, trash talk and threats have been mounting against the Helen Suzman Foundation after it announced this week that it had launched a legal challenge to the Minister of Home Affairs’ decision to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP). But the chief executive officer of the foundation, Nicole Fritz, is …

HARARE – The Citizens Coalition for Change which is the majority party in most urban councils says it is prepared to go to court to stop local government minister July Moyo forcing local authorities to buy fire tenders from Belarus at inflated prices. In a shock directive this week, Moyo …

…Party cries foul over political betrayal …Confirms cell structures in a shambles ZANU PF has unwittingly confessed its vote-buying gimmick in previous elections, saying the party often spearheaded land invasions and would, in return, ride on the votes of beneficiaries by offering them political protection. The revelation confirms the red …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday skirted addressing the gruesome killing of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali, and instead accused the opposition party of creating “disharmony.” Ali was abducted outside a nightclub on May 24, her body dismembered and thrown in a disused well in the Nyatsime area …

MOREBLESSING Ali (pictured) was found dead last weekend. Her body was dumped in a well in Nyatsime in Mashonaland East province. An eerie cloud of premeditated viciousness and horror hovers ominously over the Ali family and the nation. The trauma is real and unimaginable, what her children are enduring, what she …

Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) urging the immediate suspension of local government minister July Moyo to facilitate investigations into fresh corruption allegations. Moyo, a long-time Mnangagwa ally, is reported to be already under investigation by the anti-corruption body on …

GOVERNMENT’S Gold Incentives Scheme (GIS) has come under scrutiny amid indications it is largely benefitting politically connected persons, mainly President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close ally Pedzisayi “Scott” Sakupwanya – a Zanu PF councillor – and his Better Brands Jewellery (BBJ) company which pocked US$460 million in revenues last year at the …

Self-exiled academic and former Minister of Higher and Tertiary education, Professor Jonathan Moyo Friday morning raised the ire of Twitter users who accused him of deception following his post criticising the Citizens Coalition for Change. “#PlzAnswerAnyone As a brand new party formed in Jan 2022; with no link to any …

THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is contemplating setting up a paramilitary wing within its party’s ranks ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections in the name of “defending the citizens after voting”, The Herald can reveal. The paramilitary wing, a similar concept to the united MDC’s Democratic Resistance …

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole arrested Wednesday on allegations of inciting public violence are challenging the jurisdiction of their court case. The two appeared before the deputy chief magistrate Godfrey Mandaza in an anti-corruption court. Through their lawyer Jeremiah Bamu who is being …