Politics

Former MDC politician Eddie Cross has revealed why he did not support MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa during the 2018 elections. Speaking with Alpha Media Holdings chairperson Trevor Ncube on this week’s episode of In Conversation With Trevor, Cross who is one of MDC’s founding members said he could not support Chamisa because …

MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa on Sunday paid a surprise visit to the disused Bhalagwe mine in Maphisa, Matebeleland South where Gukurahundi victims are buried in massive graves. Following the visit of the mine which was also used as a torture base by the North Korean trained fifth brigade, Chamisa …

Internal power squabbles within the Ndebele monarch are giving President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF government ammunition to block the installation of the Ndebele king. Speaking during a virtual debate organised by the Nkayi community, former Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo said the government had long been opposed to the revival …

A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain’s biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. Documents show British American Tobacco (BAT) was involved in negotiations to pay between $300,000 and $500,000 to Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party in 2013. The documents also reveal …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa must intervene to stop spirited attempts to exhume former president Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the Heroes Acre, the late strongman’s family has said. A Chinhoyi magistrate on Friday threw out an appeal by the Mugabes to overturn a ruling by Chief Zvimba ordering the exhumation. …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been dragged in the arrest of Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution in Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira, earlier this week. The NewsHawks reports that this was revealed by a pro-Emmerson Mnangagwa faction which is blaming Chiwenga for intensifying efforts to topple the President. Chadzamira …

A Chinhoyi magistrate on Friday dismissed an appeal by the Mugabe family against a traditional court ruling ordering the exhumation of the former president Robert Mugabe’s remains. Chief Zvimba early this year ruled that Mugabe’s remains must be exhumed from his rural homestead where he was buried for reburial at …

In an eyebrow-raising development, the Zimbabwean government, battling the Covid-19 pandemic, has been purchasing expensive Chinese vaccines while overlooking doses supplied at cheaper prices under the Gavi Alliance platform meant to benefit developing countries. The Gavi Alliance, formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, is a global health partnership …

The second batch of seven Zimbabwean nationals who were deported from the United Kingdom last month have reunited with their families and relatives after completing a mandatory 10-day quarantine. The deportees were quarantined at the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (ZIPAM) in Darwendale. ZIPAM acting director-general Edgar Makande …

The long standing feud between Chiefs Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira and newly installed Chief Nemamwa recently escalated at a funeral when representatives from the two chieftaincies nearly exchanged blows over legitimacy issues.  During Serina Mangoma’s funeral in Nyoka Village near Chief Charumbira’s homestead last weekend, Charumbira clansmen disrupted the …