About three weeks ago, municipal police moved around destroying illegal car sales in an operation the city council said was meant to clear informal structures and clean up the city. But when the demolition started three weeks ago, The Financial Gazette witnessed the jostling and pushing between municipal…

War veterans linked to ZANLA recently attempted to storm the shrine, sucking traditional leaders, ZANU-PF politicians and the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) into the imbroglio.ZNLWVA has denied any links to the ex-ZANLA war veterans, while Angeline Masuku, the Matabeleland South Governor described the Njelele invaders…

The exercise started on August 18 and ends on August 27, 2012. It was nearly plunged into disarray earlier this month after army personnel tried to muscle their way into the process. In Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Kwekwe and Masvingo agitated soldiers disrupted  training workshops for enumerators as they…

The manner in which he perished has left many wondering whether he indeed died in that fire at his farm in Beatrice. Even President Robert Mugabe, at a memorial service held early this year, questioned how a trained soldier who had survived similar disasters during the war of…

The UN agency’s officials are expected in the country on August 24, exactly a year before the country co-hosts with Zambia, the 20th UNWTO session to be held from August 24 to 29, 2013.The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality, Margaret Sanga-rwe confirmed the visit.“They…

Impeccable sources said ZANU-PF bigwigs are working round the clock to implement strategies aimed at sowing seeds of hatred and disaffection between the two MDC-T stalwarts whom they view as the cornerstone of the labour and civil society backed party. This would not be the first time the…

ZANU-PF bigwigs in Masvingo Province, Stan Mudenge, Shuvai Mahofa, Titus Maluleke and other top military officials were granted the leases at Save Valley Conservancy, a prime wildlife sanctuary in the Lowveld, four months after a report by the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources had condemned the occupation of…

ZANU-PF spin-doctors have been in overdrive mode to discredit the draft, claiming it failed to incorporate the views of the people collected during controversial outreach programmes that were marred by violence and allegations of participants being coached to parrot what President Mugabe’s party wanted included in the new…

While an inquest into the death of Mujuru, husband to the country’s Vice President, Joice Mujuru and ZANU-PF second secretary, concluded that there was no suspicion on how the general died, his family, and to a larger extent the nation, have remained dissatisfied with the official explanation. They…