Politics

Vice President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has vowed that by-elections will not take place anytime soon during the COVID-19 pandemic period despite health officials saying polls were possible. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently issued a statement saying that it was safe to conduct elections. In his opposing affidavit …

Hopewell Chin’ono has accused the country’s judiciary of abusing the Anti-Corruption Court to persecute critics and journalists speaking out against President Mnangagwa’s regime. Chin’ono said this at the Harare Magistrates Court where he was brought on fresh charges of obstructing the course of justice by making statements that are likely …

Four police officers, including a woman attached to the crime prevention unit, allegedly assaulted and robbed a motorist of US$70 a few metres from a roadblock. They also allegedly assaulted fellow police officers and resisted arrest. The officers, Manager William (30), Brian Mzilikazi (33), Natasha Mupingo (32) and Tafuma Ruvuke …

The Zimbabwe Women’s Bureau (ZWB) has engaged constitutional commissions in a bid push Government to intervene in the continued abuse of women in the informal sector by law enforcement officers and individuals. This was said during the Chapter 12 Institutions workshop hosted by ZWB in Harare on Wednesday. Speaking to …

Parents have withdrawn their children from a private school in Victoria Falls saying they cannot afford the fees. Amazing Kids Primary School is run by Mr Ozias Marange of Makomwe Transport and Hardware and has more than 100 pupils from Early Childhood Development (ECD) to Grade Two. The fees is …

Top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agent Stephen Chenjerai Tserayi has accused Zimbabwe’s security services of ganging up against his boss, President Mnangagwa, to cause a revolt against his presidency. Tserayi, who is a co-accused in the Henrietta Rushwaya gold smuggling case currently before the courts, is Mnangagwa’s aide. The top …

Former Finance minister and current opposition MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ‘turned the country into a mafia state’ with “one family” now having “vast interests in gold and chrome mines, buses, banks, an airline, a fuel retail chain, farms, prime retail estate, a …

5 November 2020, 10:30 CAT Joe BidenElectoral Votes: 264 Vote%: 50,4% Vote Count: 72,102,585 Donald TrumpElectoral Votes: 214 Vote%: 48% Vote Count: 68,637,070 Swinging states:Georgia 16 electoral votes . 98% reportingTrump:49,6% Biden: 49,2% Nevada 6 electoral votes . 75% reportingBiden: 49,3% Trump:48,7% North Carolina 15 electoral votes . 94% reportingTrump:50,1% …

The Health Services Board (HSB) has removed 1 032 defiant nurses from its pay sheets after they declined to resume normal working hours and insisted on either not working or working sharply reduced hours. Besides not paying those who are not working, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa …

Chitungwiza Mayor Lovemore Maiko allegedly recommended the demotion of the council’s district officer who had been seconded to a ministerial taskforce, which was investigating the misappropriation of State and council land. Tendai Chinganga, the district officer for Zengeza district, was reportedly reassigned to a non-existing post of revamping council libraries …