May 4, 2024
Despite murmurs in ZANU-PF’s rank and file over the efficacy of President Mugabe’s candidature, the party’s schemers contend that the issue of the party’s presidential candidate or any other position in the presidium for that matter is now a closed chapter.This follows President Mugabe’s endorsement as the party’s…
Marshal Muyambo, the workers’ representative at Catercraft, was suspended about three weeks ago after he was quoted in an article published early this month.Catercraft was named in the paper’s edition of October 3, 2012 as one of the ZANU-PF companies that are in the red. Most of the…
The forthcoming harmonised elections will effectively bring closure to the present acrimonious government of national unity (GNU). However, the road to the fresh polls is seen littered with political landmines despite this week’s conclusion of a second All-Stakeholders’ Conference. Sharp constitutional differences remain among the three political parties…
Ncube, a constitutional lawyer, said while High Court Judge President George Chiweshe recently delivered a ruling allowing President Mugabe to call for polls by the end of March 2013, that does not necessarily mean that polls would be held in March next year.“We have said it to you…
Dlamini-Zuma, the former wife of South African President Jacob Zuma, the mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis, officially took over as the new chairperson of the AUC last week at its Addis Ababa, Ethiopia headquarters. But indications are that Dlamini-Zuma will focus on latest hotspots on the continent weighed…
President Mugabe, who appears to have PM Tsvangirai in his corner, is seen by hardliners in his party as the only tried and tested cadre who could use his political clout to give the draft charter a slant that suits ZANU-PF’s interests.The party had previously attempted to force…
It emerged this week the four-member panel set up by the Politburo to look into the troubled hotspot threatening to create further divisions in the volatile Masvingo province has never met three months after it was established.Conservationists, villagers and political foes had raised the red flag after ZANU-PF…
For a decade now, the country’s security sector establishment has threatened to block the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader from taking the reins of power should he succeed in breaking ZANU-PF’s grip on power.The Global Political Agreement (GPA) which paved the way for the inclusive government had,…
In a recent address to the Institute of Charted Secretaries and Administration in Zimbabwe, the minister also highlighted that although the current draft charter retains an executive Presidency, executive power now rests in both the President and Cabinet.ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change formations have since agreed…
A war of words has erupted between rival camps linked to ZANU-PF provincial youth chairperson, Jim Kunaka and Goodwills Masimirembwa following suspicions over an indigenisation rally that would feature Kunaka in Mabvuku/Tafara, a constituency being eyed by Masimirembwa.Masimirembwa, the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, has invested…
