Politics

While President Emmerson Mnangagwa is relishing his forthcoming visit to the United Kingdom for COP26 — the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference — the Zimbabwean leader will fly into Glasgow at a time when diplomatic relations between the two countries have deteriorated again after briefly thawing in 2017 following …

The quest for better income opportunities forced an estimated 580 000 youths to leave Zimbabwe for greener pastures beyond the borders in 2020 alone, a recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) report has established. The survey, titled Labour Market Diagnostic Analysis (LMDA), states that the number does not consider net migration, which …

Tyrant Emmerson Mnangagwa made a bizarre claim on Thursday that he was “upholding constitutionalism.” On a day 40 war veterans were taken to court later than the constitutional limit of 48-hours, the Zanu PF leader was addressing his party’s Central Committee in Harare, marking the start of an annual conference …

Government has withdrawn salaries for teachers who have not been reporting for duty citing incapacitation. Educators Union of Zimbabwe president Tafadzwa Munodawafa yesterday said some teachers had gone for 10 months without pay after government withheld their salaries over absentism. This, Munodawafa said, was after some school heads submitted names …

Former First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday suffered a heavy blow after the High Court struck off the urgent roll, a case where she is challenging the exhumation of the remains of her late husband, former President Robert Mugabe. The case is before the High Court after Zvimba village head Tinos …

At least 40 independence war veterans were arrested in central Harare on Tuesday during a demonstration over low pensions. The war veterans were prevented from presenting a petition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa after they were rounded up by anti-riot police who arrived in pick-up trucks and lorries. The Zimbabwe Lawyers …

Zimbabwe’s main opposition MDC Alliance on Tuesday said regional bloc SADC had struck the right tone when it called for the lifting of personal sanctions on Zimbabwean officials, while also leaning on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to pursue dialogue and implement political reforms. SADC chairman and Malawi president Lazarus Chakwera on …

The mass killing of people that occurred in Matabeleland and parts of Midlands in the 1980s in Zimbabwe was a genocide, an international crime, an international law expert has said. From 1982 to 1987, an estimated 20 000 people, mostly Ndebele, were beaten, tortured, burnt, hacked to death or shot …

Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet today and a military officer dissolved the transitional government, while opponents of the takeover took to the streets where gunfire and injuries were reported, Reuters said. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, a military officer who headed the Sovereign Council, a power-sharing ruling body, …

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has intensified its call for sanctions against Zimbabwe to go, saying the illegal restrictions are impeding on the country’s ongoing economic recovery efforts. On Friday last week, the Dean of African Group of Heads of Mission and SADC Ambassadors to the United Kingdom converged …