May 12, 2024
A LIBERAL think tank has predicted a hard landing for the Zimbabwe dollar if government reintroduces the embattled currency. Zimbabwe remains significantly unprepared for the return of the ditched currency, at least in the short-term, says the think tank. Anything contrary to this will be political grandstanding that…
PROMINENT lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa has accused Prosecutor General, Johannes Tomana, of hounding human rights defenders. Tomana’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is currently preparing a fresh legal battle against Mtetwa and has filed an application in the High Court seeking leave to appeal the acquittal handed to the human…
THE tug of war between the two warring camps in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) is likely to loose a lot of mud before the dust can finally settle. Party members will be jostled back and forth in the fracas as strategies and counter strategies are launched.…
WITH the clock ticking towards ZANU-PF’s elective congress, suspended members are holding their breath in the hope that the revolutionary party would rescind its decisions before the convention. Several ZANU-PF cadres are currently on suspension. In Masvingo, former provincial chairman, Lovemore Matuke, was suspended from ZANU-PF after he…
“WE are going to do it differently from Welshman (Ncube) and others... We will get them out,” one of the key members of the leadership renewal team in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) told the Financial Gazette last month. He was referring to party leader Morgan Tsvangirai…
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe warned a fortnight ago of an accelerating economic decline in Zimbabwe, which critics blame on profligacy and corruption by ZANU-PF elites and their cronies in government. Speaking during the country’s Independence Day celebrations on Friday, President Mugabe said Zimbabwe was in the midst of a…
AS the 2015 deadline approaches for countries to achieve socio-economic benchmarks, Zimbabwe is in danger of missing most of the targets as espoused by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2000, nations around the world renewed their commitment to creating a better, freer, safer world. As part of…
THE turmoil in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Tsvangirai has generated both local and international interest. The Financial Gazette’s Assistant Bureau Chief, Ray Ndlovu (RN) this week spoke to Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Senegal, Trudy Stevenson (TS), who is a member of the MDC formation…
AS the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) heads for what is certainly an inevitable split, following the ‘suspension’ of Morgan Tsvangirai at the weekend and the expulsion of secretary-general, Tendai Biti, on Tuesday, the future of the country’s largest opposition party is getting more and more uncertain by…
WITH factionalism ravaging the country’s largest and to date the most competitive opposition party into near annihilation, Zimbabwe could emerge out of the crisis in the opposition a de-facto one-party state, critics point out. The internal strife in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC–T), which came to a…
