The incumbent was sworn in on June 28, 2008 following a controversial one-man presidential election run-off after Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai boycotted the race citing alleged State-sponsored violence his formation of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) claim killed about 200 of his supporters.With the Southern African…

The MDC-T national executive met in Harare on Tuesday, a day before PM Tsvangirai convened the last meeting of his national council for 2012. While the national council was yet to announce its final decision yesterday, impeccable party sources said the party’s highest decision-making body would rubberstamp the…

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…

Tinashe Madava, Senior ReporterTHE issue of construction projects taking place on wetlands around Harare continues to court debate, with conservationists saying destruction of wetlands will worsen the capital city’s water woes in future.While the allocation of the wetland behind Dandaro village in Borrowdale for a massive retail shopping…

In a report tabled in Parliament last week, the Budget and Finance Committee said the disparity between approved expenditures and the actual figures has been going on for years, but the trend should no longer be tolerated. In other words, all funds used by the government should come…

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…

The development is likely to present the party’s leadership with a headache as they will be forced to eat humble pie and admit before the party’s conference currently underway in Gweru that they have once again failed to exert their weight and force national elections into the party’s…