The cost of living for a family of six doubled to ZWL$2m in June from the May figure following price hikes triggered by currency volatility, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has said, piling pressure on employers to review salaries. Civil servants earn US$250 and ZWL$130 000 per month while …
Read More »Kasukuwere Takes Ballot Fight To Supreme Court
Saviour Kasukuwere will “fight to the bitter end” to stop his name being removed from presidential candidates for the August 23 election, aides said on Wednesday after he launched an appeal against a High Court decision to disqualify him on the basis that he had been out of the country …
Read More »Police Claim They Have Banned More Zanu PF Rallies Than CCC
SINCE January police have barred 84 ZANU PF rallies and meetings, more than the 59 from opposition parties, out of the 1 730 applications made by the country’s political parties and candidates. The police statistics fly in the face of opposition claims that the police have been stopping their rallies, …
Read More »Tapiwa Makore Killers Sentenced To Death
High Court Judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has sentenced Tapiwa Makore’s killers to death following their conviction for the crime of murder after a full trial. Tapiwa Makore Senior (60), connived to murder his seven-year-old nephew with his herd boy Tafadzwa Shamba (40) on the night of September 17, 2020 in …
Read More »Presidential Hopeful Kasukuwere Barred From Contesting 2023 Elections
Exiled former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been barred from contesting the country’s presidential elections by the High Court. This follows an application filed against the former Zanu PF political commissar by a ruling party activist. The High Court concurred that he stopped being a registered voter when he was …
Read More »Mutodi Reported To Police For Unruly Conduct With Arms
Zanu PF aspiring MP for Bikita South Energy Mutodi stormed the venue of a Citizens Coalition for Change rally and discharged his gun, according to a police complaint filed by his rival John Mupanduki. The incident happened at Baradzanwa BIC in Bikita on July 6, according to the police report …
Read More »Three Neglected Tropical Diseases Pose Health Threat To Over 5 Million Zimbabweans
The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) Principal Director Public Health, Dr Munyaradzi Dobbie says Zimbabwe is still saddled with the burden of three Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs, namely Schistosomiasis (SCH) & Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) and lymphatic filariasis. This was revealed during a Results dissemination Workshop for the …
Read More »Trouble For “Tanzi Tiyende Kumba” Prisoner As Victim’s Family Intends To Sue ZPCS
The family of a 15-year-old rape victim is threatening legal action after her rapist, 59, was released on amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Bobby Makaza was sentenced to an effective 16 years in prison by a Murewa court in 2019 over the sex attack on the teenager a year previously. …
Read More »Tension As CCC, Zanu PF Clash Over Voters Roll
Tempers flared yesterday during the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Harare Metropolitan provincial multi-party liaison committee meeting after opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party candidates accused the electoral body of secretly availing the voters roll to Zanu PF candidates. Zec almost lost control of the meeting as CCC and Zanu …
Read More »Mnangagwa Leads Chamisa Ahead Of Polls Latest Report Says
President Emmerson Mnangagwa enjoys an eight percentage points lead on opposition rival Nelson Chamisa going into general elections on August 23, but none of the men has a sufficient vote to win the election outright, according to a new poll released on Monday. The Afrobarometer poll shows Mnangagwa ahead with …
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