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New law to gag Press

An amendment to the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act is contained in the General Laws Amendment Bill, a proposed legislation currently before Parliament that seeks to revise over 10 statutes. Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa is steering the revision of the proposed laws that include changes…

Zim faces large financing gap — IMF

In a statement after talks with Zimbabwe’s authorities in the capital Harare, the IMF said the country’s budget was skewed by a massive public wage bill and not enough resources for social programmes for the poor and important infrastructure spending.It said the short-term growth potential, especially in mining,…

AirZim faces dead end

This has been attributed to gross under capitalisation, sanctions and unsettled labour disputes, according to a Parliamentary report by the Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Development.The airline made huge losses during the price control and Zimbabwe dollar era and has recently suffered significant losses after a strike…

Prisoners stare indefinite detention

Magistrates and other judicial officers at the courts embarked on the industrial action to press for a review of wages and other conditions of service.By yesterday, only one regional magistrate at Harare’s Rotten Row courts was expected to sit and remand all cases brought before the courts.Police spokesperson,…

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…

Tension grips Zim

ZANU-PF has fallen from its plinth as a de facto one party state ruling political formation to share power with the former opposition under an inclusive government formed after years of political acrimony that accelerated an economic decline in the country.However, the nationalist party’s drive to regain its…

ZANU-PF witch-hunt

ZANU-PF’s national chairman, Simon Khaya-Moyo was hammered in the election by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) national chairman, Lovemore Moyo, who garnered 105 votes against Khaya-Moyo’s 93 in an election that was marred by accusations of bribery by both ZANU-PF and the MDC- T.ZANU-PF…

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…