May 4, 2024
This is the first time a minister has lashed out at colleagues for concerning themselves with their personal welfare at the expense of the majority.Misihairabwi-Mushonga made sensational claims to the effect that his colleagues in the unity government now live luxurious lives and have developed a taste for…
Suspected ZANU-PF supporters have, in the past four weeks, been fingered in the assault and harassment of supporters of the MDC parties in Mutoko, Shangani and Masvingo.But information obtained this week suggested no arrests had been made in the three areas.Failure by the police to effect arrests particularly…
The ZANU-PF leader was hauled to the High Court by Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) this year, seeking an order compelling him to call for by-elections in their former respective constituencies.This was after the trio’s parliamentary membership was terminated following…
The current Parliament has been criticised for underperforming due to failure by MPs to agitate for the implementation of the government’s legislative agenda, top of the list being long-awaited media and electoral reforms.Critics say there has not been any urgency on the part of the lawmakers to implement…
Recent revelations that two observers seconded to the body by SADC at the Luanda Summit in May are still to take up their positions six months down the line, have added to the criticism.Tanzanian, David Katye and Zambian, Colly Muunyu were tipped to start work at JOMIC offices…
The 29 supporters, now popularly referred to as the Glen View 29, have been locked up for more than a year and a half with numerous bail applications failing at the High Court. The MDC-T says the 29 are innocent and their arrest was part of a grand…
This comes amid reports that teachers at some schools, mostly in Harare, were either on go-slow or had completely stopped work to pressure government for more pay while their unions remained divided on the way forward.But the Apex Council, a body representing all government workers with the exception…
President Mugabe, who has since 2010 been calling for fresh polls to end the coalition government, now has the green light to skip the by-elections and call for harmonised polls in March 2013.In his court papers, President Mugabe, who had been given until October 1 to call for…
Workers at some of the struggling companies warned this week that they may end up filing for liquidation after going for several months without being paid in what would essentially put the last nail in their coffin.ZANU-PF has since independence in 1980 invested in real estate, listed and…
SADC’s organ on Politics, Defence and Security, otherwise known as Troika, chaired by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, had proposed a meeting for October 7 to specifically deal with the crisis around Zimbabwe’s constitution-making process, which has taken more than three years of painstaking negotiations.But The Financial Gazette can…
