While the city fathers in the Midlands’ provincial capital insist that the structure, being built at a cost of US$6,5 million is illegal as there was no approval for change of land use, ZANU-PF officials associated with the project say every step was taken to comply with the…

A Central Committee report to the ZANU-PF 13th people’s conference held two weeks ago revealed that the farms covered under the BIPPAs remain a headache to the government after Dutch farmers approached the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and won a claim of 16 million…

The ANC re-elected Zuma as leader of the party, teeing him up for another seven years as head of state with the country’s second richest businessman Cyril Ramaphosa as his deputy. Ramaphosa is seen as broadly favourable to business and investment.After the announcement of Zuma’s re-election, the rand…

Kunonga’s faction has also suffered major defections to either the latter or different other churches after Supreme Court appeal judges ruled last month that rights to Anglican properties were legally vested in the CPCA led by bishop Chad Gandiya.In some cases, Kunonga’s followers have abandoned church services altogether…

Accusations and counter-accusations have dogged the handling of revenues from Chiadzwa diamond exp-orts ever since the government seized the hugely prolific fields from the private sector in 2006. The discord worsened following the formation of a coalition government in February 2009, with head of the exchequer, Tendai Biti,…

SADC leaders, meeting in Tanzania at a weekend summit to discuss the region’s trouble spots, urged the political stakeholders in Zimbabwe to fully implement the Global Political Agreement (GPA) before holding fresh elections after an inconclusive presidential poll in June 2008.The summit further urged President Mugabe, Prime Minister…

The ZANU-PF leader divulged at the party’s indaba held in Gweru that former South African president Thabo Mbeki had told him that some local ministers had demanded kickbacks from South Africans who were seeking to invest in the country, claiming President Mugabe also wanted a share of the…

The report states that ZANU-PF has been experiencing tight liquidity challenges in the last four years, and called for long-term solutions to “its precarious financial position, especially considering the forthcoming harmonised elections, which the party should win at whatever financial cost”.The picture being painted by ZANU-PF in its…

The Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal that after narrowly escaping from the jaws of defeat in 2000 by hurriedly expropriating land from the perceived white funders of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), ZANU-PF has again set its sights on taking over foreign-owned firms and giving majority ownership…

This comes almost four months after SADC leaders had directed that Ncube, who leads a breakaway formation of the Movement for Demo-cratic Change (MDC), be recognised as a principal to the Global Political Agreement (GPA), which formed the basis of the coalition government in 2009.At some point, Ncube…