The proposal has seen the techno-savvy political parties — both formations of the MDC — rooting for on-line voter registration while the techno-peasant ZANU-PF says it will have none of it.MDC secretary-general, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, threw do-wn the gauntlet last week when she called for the introduction of mobile…

African diplomats accredited to Harare this week said the continental body could use the indaba to endorse a proposal to dispatch its Council of Elders to gauge Zimbabwe’s preparedness to hold peaceful, free and fair polls.The Council is made up of retired presidents among them former Zambian leader…

Competition for the right to represent the two main parties, ZANU-PF and the MDC-T, has already started even though both parties are still to come up with dates for primary polls.The jockeying is more intense in ZANU-PF where the leadership is under pressure, including from the military and…

Hama Saburi, The Editor-in-Chief of The Financial Gazette said yesterday measures had since been taken to restore and upgrade the site with more security checks to avoid similar occurrences in future.He said the website had since been restored and was functioning normally.“We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused…

In its latest report, council said it had identified 14 unauthorised base stations that were either erected on virgin council land, private properties or mounted on its tower lights.“The director of Engineering Services reported that it had come to our attention that Telecel Zimbabwe Ltd had been developing…

His brother, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo told The Financial Gazette this week that VP Nkomo, whose condition sources say is serious, is undergoing treatment in Cape Town but is not hospitalised.“No, he is not in hospital. He is undergoing chemo (chemotherapy) from home but his condition has really improved,”…

In its end of year report, the Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance queried the Ministry of Finance’s projected revenues of US$392 million from customs this year which do not reflect the present volume of imports to Zimbabwe.Import duty is one of the key revenue centres for the…

With harmonised elections expected within six months, there is no movement on the election roadmap spearheaded by the Southern African Development Community (SADC).The four-year old inclusive government that came into being courtesy of pressure from the regional grouping, has also seen its fair share of problems and is…

Delivering a speech to ZANU-PF delegates at the party’s annual national conference last month, President Mugabe singled out members of the police force’s traffic section who have become unpopular for demanding bribes from moto-rists.Graft within the force has not been confined to the traffic section alone but cuts…

With this year’s polls expected to be a winner-take-all affair, ZANU-PF has oiled its machinery to go all out in mass mobilisation campaigns and will target religious groups as they easily pull large numbers of people at any given time. Religious groups are an important constituency in the…