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Stung ZANU-PF in damage control

Zuma is a SADC-appointed mediator to Zimbabwe’s political crisis. On Thursday last week, he presented a report to fellow leaders within the Troika — President Rupiah Banda of Zambia, chairperson of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security and Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza — described as a frank…

SADC finally cracks the whip

If the ZANU-PF delegation to the SADC troika on politics, defence and security led by President Robert Mugabe to Livingstone, Zambia last week thought the gathering was going be another stroll in the park, this time they got it wrong.The organ told Presi-dent Mugabe straight in the face…

A communiqué that caught ZANU-PF off guard

Often, Prime Minister Tsvan-girai has come out of such meetings disheveled and downcast; the only occasions he has managed a smile has been after engagement with sympathetic leaders fro-m the West.Now, even be-fore the SADC Troika issued its communiqué af-ter what sho-uld have been indeed a ten-se meeting,…

Indigenisation: How govt tripped own trap

Little wonder, the general regulations gazetted in January last year to implement the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act passed four years earlier, are now literally a patchwork of amendments, just over a year after promulgation.From this initial stockpile of conceptual mistakes, government has also made some “discoveries” and…

Discord at Information Ministry

The Information Ministry has sent out invitations to journalists for a media tour of Chimoio and Nyadzonya training camps that kicks off today, in a project it says is aimed at correcting historical distortions and myths about the liberation struggle.The trip comes weeks after a ZANU-PF aligned organisation,…

Stanbic voted Bank of The Year

The top international award is regarded by bankers as an industry standard for “banking excellence.”“We are delighted to have received this recognition,” said Stanbic chairperson, lawyer Sternford Moyo.“It is evidence of maintenance of a tradition of excellence in banking which has been recognised in the bank before."Moyo said…

All eyes on SADC Troika in Zambia

There is no question the regional indaba is faced with a herculean task to heal the cracks that have emerged in the GNU for the past two years or so.Apart from reviewing progress in Zimbabwe’s crisis torn coalition government formed two year ago between ZANU-PF and the two formations…

Negotiators meet to review GPA

The pact, called the Global Political Agreement (GPA), lay the terms for the inclusive government as well as a raft of measures to be undertaken to democratise the country.ZANU-PF’s representatives are Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche, while the MDC formation is led by Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga and Moses Mzila-Ndlovu…

Moyo, MDC-T case takes new twist

Moyo was this week accused of dangling US$25 000 to MDC-T lawmakers in an effort to influence Tuesday’s Parliamentary vote for the Speaker of the House of Assembly, which was won by the MDC-T chairperson, Lovemore Moyo, who polled 105 votes against ZANU-PF chairperson, Simon-Khaya Moyo’s 93 votes.The…