May 4, 2024
The chairperson of the cabinet taskforce, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Arthur Mutambara told lawmakers last week that they have since constituted a District Ethanol Implementation Committee (DEPIC) to address villagers’ concerns that include poisoning of their water sources.The committee consists of a lawmaker, councillors, the area’s headman, chiefs,…
The COPAC outreach programme began on Monday countrywide amid low turnout at most designated centres.COPAC’s first two meetings in the second largest city could not take off as a result of poor attendance.On Tuesday, a number of COPAC meetings were cancelled due to poor patronage.The situation was the…
With so-called “aliens” guaranteed to vote if the new constitution is adopted, there were expectations that those abroad would flock back home for the referendum on March 16 and general elections later this year to cast their ballot. But analysts this week postulated that despite the large pool…
Zhou slammed company grabbers when he revoked the take-over of Lorely Estate in Msasa, Harare by one Gideon Hwemende who claimed he had been authorised to expropriate the property by the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (NIEEB).He had relied on a forged letter written on an NIEEB…
There has been a groundswell of discontent within civil society and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations in the past week due to mounting politically-motivated violence and police blitzkrieg on non-governmental organisations (NGOs).The international community, which is keenly following the country’s progression towards polls is not amused…
The Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), chaired by University of Zimbabwe political scientist Eldred Masunungure, is the latest in a string of respected pollsters to paint a sombre picture over the likelihood of the MDC-T causing an upset against ZANU-PF at the next polls after Freedom House and…
It also emerged this week that the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), a consistent critic of the political parties-led constitution drafting exercise, was forging ahead with its High Court application to extend voter awareness campaigns by another month. NCA lawyers, on the one hand, were due to lodge an…
PSA executive secretary, Emmanuel Tichareva, wrote to his colleagues in the education sector last week seeking to resolve the long-standing leadership dispute but had not received a reply at the time of going to print.In his letter, Tichareva said the association was willing to have a mediator appointed…
PSA executive secretary, Emmanuel Tichareva, wrote to his colleagues in the education sector last week seeking to resolve the long-standing leadership dispute but had not received a reply at the time of going to print.In his letter, Tichareva said the association was willing to have a mediator appointed…
In an interview with a South African newspaper last week, Khama said, “All I can say right now is that I hope there will be a credible election in Zimbabwe.…The reason I say ‘hope’ is because all the people who were involved in the brutality and intimidation that…
