November 28, 2024
Family lawyer, Thakor Kewada who represented the Mujurus at an inquest into the death of the late general last year told The Financial Gazette this week that there were no new developments on the matter.“At the moment there is a standstill. I can’t say much about it right…
The development comes as the country’s main political parties — ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations — are yet to come up with dates for the conduct of their own primary polls to select candidates to represent them in the main elections — an indication…
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…
While the city fathers in the Midlands’ provincial capital insist that the structure, being built at a cost of US$6,5 million is illegal as there was no approval for change of land use, ZANU-PF officials associated with the project say every step was taken to comply with the…
A Central Committee report to the ZANU-PF 13th people’s conference held two weeks ago revealed that the farms covered under the BIPPAs remain a headache to the government after Dutch farmers approached the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and won a claim of 16 million…
The ANC re-elected Zuma as leader of the party, teeing him up for another seven years as head of state with the country’s second richest businessman Cyril Ramaphosa as his deputy. Ramaphosa is seen as broadly favourable to business and investment.After the announcement of Zuma’s re-election, the rand…
Kunonga’s faction has also suffered major defections to either the latter or different other churches after Supreme Court appeal judges ruled last month that rights to Anglican properties were legally vested in the CPCA led by bishop Chad Gandiya.In some cases, Kunonga’s followers have abandoned church services altogether…
Accusations and counter-accusations have dogged the handling of revenues from Chiadzwa diamond exp-orts ever since the government seized the hugely prolific fields from the private sector in 2006. The discord worsened following the formation of a coalition government in February 2009, with head of the exchequer, Tendai Biti,…
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…