Politics

Cases continue to rocketSchools teeter on brink of closureSickly economy can’t shutdownParents withhold children from school As it increasingly becomes clear that Zimbabwe is in the grip of another wave of Covid-19 – President Mnangagwa and his Cabinet find themselves at sixes and sevens. On Tuesday, Cabinet resolved to shutdown …

Exiled former ZANU PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, has thrown his weight behind journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, who is currently incarcerated at Chikurubi Maximum Prison. Chin’ono was arrested and charged on allegations of defeating or obstructing the course of justice. Kasukuwere openly sympathised with Chin’ono, who has taken the Second Republic …

Albert Kasanda The rickety coalition that has governed the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 20 months, forged by President Félix Tshisekedi and his predecessor Joseph Kabila, appears to be falling apart.In 2019, for lack of a parliamentary majority, Tshisekedi chose to share power with his former rival, Kabila, in …

– Beneficiaries claim to have excess– Product sold at half of market price– Farmers warned against inputs abuse– Experts bemoan resource wastage By Kundai Marunya Inputs for Government’s Pfumvudza and Command Agriculture programmes have found their way to the black market where they are being sold for less than their …

Scores of graduates from various universities throughout the country and even abroad were part of over 300 jobseekers that turned up for #Hashtag Nightclub job interviews conducted in Bulawayo last week.The place was crawling with job seekers, who after years of joblessness, are prepared do anything.Unemployment in Zimbabwe is estimated …

By Nicodemus MindeTanzania’s 2020 general elections resulted in a predictably easy victory for one of Africa’s oldest ruling parties, Chama Cha Mapinduzi.The National Electoral Commission declared the incumbent, John Magufuli, the winner with 84.4 percent of the vote. His closest challenger, Chadema’s Tundu Lissu, garnered a paltry 13 percent.The ruling …

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut novel, Nervous Conditions, released in 1988, has been described as one of the 100 books that “shaped the world”.This year, the latest book by the Zimbabwean novelist, filmmaker and activist, This Mournable Body, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize.It is the third in a trilogy, …

Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been denied bail by Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa. The Court ruled that Chin’ono was not a perfect candidate for bail as he had a propensity to continue committing offences. This emanated from the fact that the court had reasonable suspicion that he committed the offence of …

Hopewell Chin’ono has accused the State of persecuting and punishing him by throwing him in with convicted criminals at Chikurubi Maximum Prison. Chin’ono said this during cross examination by his lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, justifying his suitability to be granted bail on a charge of defeating or obstructing the course of …

The decision taken by Government to increase salaries for civil service workers will not destabilise the economy as measures have been put in place, Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube said this during Tuesday’s post Cabinet briefing. This was after Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, …