Nyagura also turned 65, making him ineligible for reconsideration for the top post in line with the country’s labour laws.He has also served the stipulated two terms as head of the country’s oldest and biggest university.There have been moves by some members of the Buzwani Mothobi-led council to…

As industry burns, the impact of the various government programmes put in place to save the situation is still to be felt.In 2011, government launched the Zimbabwe Economic Trade Revival Facility (ZETREF) and the Distressed and Marginalised Areas Fund (DIMAF) to resuscitate industry, but the take up has…

The court has a staff complement of only five judges of which one is in an acting capacity.Judge president George Chiweshe, speaking during the official opening of the 2013 legal year for the Bulawayo High Court this week, said the disposal rate for criminal trials was far from…

This is at a time when Treasury has imposed a recruitment freeze to manage a financial squeeze rattling the inclusive government.The ministry, which has a workforce of 138 950 and 3 959 315 learners in both primary and secondary schools, has little room to manoeuvre this year in…

“There is all pervading corruption not only at the Deeds Office but throughout the justice delivery system. It is a notorious fact that a good number of lawyers are corrupt and some of them are on the forefront of facilitating fraud at the Deeds Office,” said Gutu who…

The proposal has seen the techno-savvy political parties — both formations of the MDC — rooting for on-line voter registration while the techno-peasant ZANU-PF says it will have none of it.MDC secretary-general, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, threw do-wn the gauntlet last week when she called for the introduction of mobile…

African diplomats accredited to Harare this week said the continental body could use the indaba to endorse a proposal to dispatch its Council of Elders to gauge Zimbabwe’s preparedness to hold peaceful, free and fair polls.The Council is made up of retired presidents among them former Zambian leader…

Competition for the right to represent the two main parties, ZANU-PF and the MDC-T, has already started even though both parties are still to come up with dates for primary polls.The jockeying is more intense in ZANU-PF where the leadership is under pressure, including from the military and…

Delivering a speech to ZANU-PF delegates at the party’s annual national conference last month, President Mugabe singled out members of the police force’s traffic section who have become unpopular for demanding bribes from moto-rists.Graft within the force has not been confined to the traffic section alone but cuts…

With this year’s polls expected to be a winner-take-all affair, ZANU-PF has oiled its machinery to go all out in mass mobilisation campaigns and will target religious groups as they easily pull large numbers of people at any given time. Religious groups are an important constituency in the…