April 29, 2024
ALL of a sudden the plush jobs are not so plum anymore. The pickings no longer as rich. From a mountain top of US$15 000 all the way up to US$40 000 and an incredible US$500 000 a month to tumble down in free fall all the way…
MUNICIPAL activist, Philosophy Nyapfumbi, who staged a week-long hunger strike against the City of Harare Town Clerk, Tendai Mahachi last month, says he would resume the strike tomorrow if Harare mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni fails to provide a favourable response that addresses the plight of residents in a crunch…
WHEN former Masvingo governor, Dzikamai Mavhaire, was appointed Minister of Energy and Power Development by President Robert Mugabe last year, he quickly became the butt of many jokes in town. (more…)
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CONTRARY to the widely held belief that the august House opened by President Robert Mugabe in September last year would turn out to be a damp squib, after the ruling ZANU-PF raked in a majority of seats in the National Assembly, the eighth Parliament is so far showing…
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe recently revealed that a Cabinet minister and a legislator had recently demanded a bribe from a foreign investor and vowed that heads would roll over the latest graft charges. The President’s revelation comes after he made a similar damning charge at ZANU-PF’s December 2012 national…
DISCLOSURES by diamond firms operating in Marange that they were not aware of the existence of the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust point to the possibility of a wider scam on the indigenisation crusade, critics have warned. Government established a number of community share ownership schemes across the…
ENVIRONMENT, Water and Climate Change Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has admitted that government bungled in its handling of the Tokwe Murkosi flooding disaster, revealing that engineers had also not foreseen such a catastrophe. Kasukuwere told Senators last week that authorities failed in their planning and that engineers had not…
JACOB Mudenda, the Speaker of the National Assembly, made a ruling last week that has far reaching consequences on freedom of speech during parliamentary debates. A former chairman of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, Mudenda has threatened to lift the immunity enjoyed by Members of Parliament in certain circumstances.…
MORGAN Tsvangirai, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader, recently extended an olive branch to former allies who abandoned him to pursue other projects, but the biggest question being asked is whether this would make any difference at all to the former trade unionist’s fading political star. At…
BUHERA South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba is generally known for his clownish behaviour that has seen him being the butt of many jokes which mock his broken English and ignorance. Being in the presence of Chinotimba, popularly known as “Chinoz,” is enough for one to dismiss the war…
