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SADC wades into GNU deadlock

The Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal that the chairperson of the SADC Troika on Politics, Defence and Security, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and the facilitator to the Zimbabwe crisis; South African President Jacob Zuma could be heading for the country in the next few weeks in desperate attempts…

Mliswa spills the beans

This week, The Financial Gazette lifts the lid on how political doors were opened for Rautenbach after he hired fellow businessman and politician, Mliswa, as a consultant and, as the latter claims, when the millionaire was a persona non grata following his troubles in South Africa and the…

UNWTO gives govt directives

The government is already racing against time to put up infrastructure for the hosting of the general assembly being co-hosted with Zambia in August next year.In joint meetings with their Zambian counterparts last week, government officials insisted that all was on course for the successful hosting of the…

ZANU-PF bigwigs fingered in farm wars

Frank Batsirayi who was acting district lands officer for Chegutu had to fight allegedly trumped up charges of obstructing the course of justice following his testimony in a Chegutu court which was apparently deemed favourable to a “white” man, Kenneth Bartho-lomew. Batsirayi last week had his case dismissed…

Chipangano days now numbered

Last week, ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, took up the issue once again of Chipangano with the leadership of the Harare metropolitan province where he read the riot act over the lawlessness and violent activities being orchestrated by members of the grouping.Mutasa had earlier instructed the Harare…

Constitution impasse exposes politicians

It has become clear that ordinary Zimbabweans have resigned themselves to the political whims and machinations of the political elite in the country. Also, it has become increasingly questionable whether the political leadership respects the ordinary folk. But all parties in the GPA have said they are advancing…

ZANU-PF’s draft constitution unpacked

Although the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have roundly dismissed the ZANU-PF draft as unacceptable and devoid of the views of the people, a scrutiny of the audited COPAC draft sheds some light into the party’s thinking.The ZANU-PF draft shows that the party wants…

GZU vice chancellor gets the axe

Sources at the university told The Financial Gazette this week that Maravanyika left the university early his month but it could not be immediately ascertained whether or not the former Vice Chancellor was given a golden handshake.His deputy Herbert Chimhundu, according to impeccable sources, has taken over the…

Mudede divides Cabinet

As part of the reform agenda preceding the liquidation of the inclusive government, it has been proposed that Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede’s office, which has been in charge of all elections held in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, be excluded from the conduct of national polls to remove…

ZANU-PF constitution draft rejected

President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday handed a copy of the changes being proposed by his party to his main rival, Prime Minister Tsvangirai. He also handed copies to Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and Welshman Ncube, the leader of the other MDC faction.ZANU-PF has been angered by the…