Politics

Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has advised his supporters to attend Zanu PF campaign rallies for their safety, but vote it out in the ballot box on August 23. This comes amid reports of rising political tension mostly in the rural areas, where members of a …

Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday repeated his 2018 promise to pull down and replace Mbare’s dilapidated residential flats with modern structures, claiming government’s previous attempts were frustrated by the opposition-led Harare City Council. Addressing a campaign rally in the city’s oldest and populous high-density suburb, Chiwenga said soon after the elections, …

Voters in urban areas have an opportunity to get quality services such as clean water, addressing of burst sewer pipes and trafficable roads if they vote for President Mnangagwa and all ZANU PF candidates on August 23. This was said by Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, who is also ZANU …

Zanu PF top officials Mangaliso Ndlovu and Obert Mpofu torched a storm weekend after labelling party opponents “confused cockroaches”, “sell-outs and clowns”. Ndlovu, the country’s tourism minister who is also Zanu PF legislator for Bulilima East and party provincial chair for Matabeleland South, was speaking at a rally at Nyele …

South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), along with six other parties, have announced that they will hold talks to outline a pact that they hope will unseat the ANC from government at next year’s elections. The group does not include the country’s third largest political force – the Economic …

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says opposition Labour Economists and African Democrats leader Linda Masarira’s High Court application challenging the rejection of her nomination papers lacks merit. Masarira’s bid to contest for presidency hit a snag after she failed to pay US$20 000 or its equivalent in local currency when …

Election-related spending by the Zimbabwean government is going through the roof as President Emmerson Mnangagwa goes for broke, spending public funds like confetti at a wedding to retain his position in the August presidential election. Fiscal and monetary sources say the civil servants’ bill — which in January was about …

Public Service Minister Paul Mavima has dismissed claims of a pending pay rise for civil servants, saying the government is yet to come up with a new pay package for its troubled workforce. This follows reports the government was in the process of drawing a package of US$150 for the …

One of the 11 presidential candidates, Professor Blessing Kasiyamhuru, of the Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP) party claims that if elected, he would establish a US$200 billion economy for the country through investment partnerships inspired by “spiritual intelligence” within five years. Prof. Kasiyamhuru is running for president for the second …

The MDC-T on Tuesday lost its bid to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to register 87 of its aspiring MPs who were rejected by the nomination court on June 21 after failing to pay candidate fees. Justice Webster Chinamhora of the Harare High Court, sitting as an Electoral Court, …