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Can Tsvangirai redeem himself?

“Now that together we are on the last long haul, we still need to maintain our vigilance,” wrote the PM.“A political transition, as an interval between chaos and order, is generally a period of uncertainty; it offers saboteurs an opportunity to try out all forms of tricks to…

Fingaz consolidates leadership

ZARF, in a survey of the country’s urban consumer market released on Tuesday, said Fingaz’s readership climbed to four percent during the review period, from three percent during the fourth quarter of 2011, as the publication fortified its leadership position.The last time the survey was conducted was in…

Civil servants divided over strike

Two distinct camps have emerged within the civil servants unions with reports indicating that some unionists want an outright strike before public examinations, which commence in October while others want to keep engaging government.Teachers, in particular, are not happy with their monthly salaries that are far below the…

Gweru mayor vows to fight expulsion

Chimombe was among 12 councillors booted out of the MDC-T last month on allegations of corruption and abuse of office following an internal commission of inquiry.Harare deputy mayor, Emmanuel Chiroto and Zvishavane Town council chairperson, Alluwis Zhou were among those that were caught up in the anti-corruption dragnet.Chimombe…

Zim under siege from under nutrition

Child mortality in Zimbabwe currently stands at 925 deaths per every 100 000 births.Studies have shown that child under nutrition in Zimbabwe is as a result of poor dietary intake and disease blamed on sub optimal feeding practices, especially during the critical periods of pregnancy, infancy and young…

Food hand-outs politicised

In Mangwe district, villagers accuse the District Administrator (DA), Felicity Gangada, of favouring ZANU-PF supporters ahead of everybody else in distributing grain under the government’s grain loan scheme meant to avert starvation after the country recorded a poor harvest in the past cropping season.Kakaka Ndlovu, a councillor for…

Judge slams attempts to evict new farmers

Justice Happious Zhou last week upheld an interdict restraining Herbert Murerwa, the Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement, Masho-naland West Provincial Governor Faber Chidarikire, Stanley Mhondoro, aka Chief Zvimba, the district administrator (DA) for Zvimba and the officer commanding Mashonaland West, from evicting 31 resettled farmers at Lion…

‘Chipangano leader’ faces ouster

Kunaka, employed by council as a market attendant, is accused of discharging a firearm in attempts to stop municipal police from demolishing illegal car sales in Eastlea, a development that saw him being subsequently questioned by the police.The chairperson of council’s human resources committee, Councillor Masiye Kapare, this…

Looters defy Mugabe

The illegal hunting frenzy is threatening to wipe out game in the conservancy, hitherto of interest only to safari operators until controversy set in after it was allocated to ZANU-PF heavyweights from the politically restive province, some of who have no clue about hunting.The primitive accumulation of wealth…

MDC-T widens corruption probe

Sesel Zvidzai, the party’s secretary for local government and Deputy Minister for Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development, told The Financial Gazette this week that another team has been set up to probe 12 more local authorities.“The anti-corruption crusade continues as we have set up another probe…