Politics

8th September 2020 A LEGAL think-tank, Veritas, says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga cannot initiate any law-making procedures on behalf of the Ministry of Health as his controversial appointment to the portfolio last month was illegal. Chiwenga was appointed Health Minister by President Emmerson Mnangagwa late last month despite claims he was constitutionally ineligible for the [...]

8th September 2020 ZANU PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda has told former president of Botswana, Ian Khama to find a wife and stop meddling in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs. Khama is one of the leading politicians in the SADC region to endorse #ZimbabweLivesMatter which is calling for an end to rampant rights abuses by the Zanu [...]

7 Sep 2020 The President’s press Secretary George Charamba has said the American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Brian Nichols by speaking to eNCA and reiterating that SADC should intervene and stop the government of Zimbabwe from descending on people opposing the government creates a basis for Zimbabwe to expel him, The Standard reports. Responding to [...]

7th September 2020 A SECTION of the mainstream war veterans association in Zimbabwe has demanded the return of properties seized from the then PF Zapu by President Robert Mugabe’s regime at the height of the governing Zanu (then)’s hostilities with the once main opposition in the early 1980s. The properties include farms dotted across the [...]

7 Sep 2020 KWEKWE mayor Angeline Kasipo has bravely pledged unwavering loyalty to embattled MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa whose loyalists are being recalled from parliament and councils by the rival Thokozani Kupe led MDC-T. This follows claims the country’s only female mayor had jumped ship by joining MDC-T. But Kasipo told NewZimbabwe.com weekend her [...]

In a move that has Zimbabweans talking, the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reversed a decision made by his deputy Constantino Chiwenga. Mnangagwa cut the retirement age from 70 to 65 effectively reversing Chiwenga’s decision made in 2018. In August 2018, Chiwenga, who then doubled as Defence and War Veterans Affairs minister, extended soldiers’ retirement [...]

Sour Grapes: Mass recalls to open door for Zanu PF-led government to dissolve Harare City Council and appoint a commission which will run affairs of city until the 2023 elections.MDC-T ready to let Zanu PF takeover city than let MDC Alliance rule THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T are plotting to paralyse operations of the Harare City [...]

09-04-20 by Spotlight Zimbabwe Senior officials say land is ‘birthright’ of indigenous Zimbabweans amid compensation deal with dispossessed white farmers ANKARA- Zimbabwe said it would not return all the plots of land that the government had previously expropriated from white former farmers to their previous owners, local media reported Thursday. Dismissing recent media reports that a [...]

05 Sep, 2020  GOVERNMENT is working on a proper roadmap towards the restoration of King Lobengula’s original palace, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago as well as sprucing up King Mzilikazi’s grave. Old Bulawayo was built by King Lobengula in 1870 and was burnt down in 1881 in protest [...]

5th September 2020 THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says it will petition government over failure to address outstanding terminal benefits owed to 400 000 ex-commercial farm workers. This comes after government has agreed on a US$3,5 billion compensation deal with white former commercial farmers who lost their land during the country’s violent land [...]