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China criticises Zim policies

According to two separate United States classified cables written in 2009 and last year, China is also reaching out to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.In a leaked cable about a conversation between US ambassador, Charles Ray and Chinese ambassador, Xin Shunkang, the latter is alleged to have said Chinese…

ZANU-PF to block changes to POSA again

In the previous legislative session, which ended last month, Justice and Legal Affairs Minister, Patrick Chinamasa blocked a bid by Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) chief whip, Innocent Gonese to steer the proposed legislation before the Senate on grounds that the matter was before the Global Political Agreement…

Biti in trouble over Mujuru death

This emerged as police began pondering over the possibility of interviewing Guy Watson-Smith, the former white owner of the Beatrice farm at which Mujuru died from an unexplained inferno. The plan to interview Watson-Smith appeared to suggest that police investigations into the death of Zimbabwe's first black army…

Constitutional crisis looms . . .

Issued a fortnight ago, the order will particularly deal a body blow to the sourcing of public input on three critical Bills that form the bulwark of the envisaged political reforms that should lead to free and fair elections whenever they are held.These are the Electoral Ame-ndment Bill,…

NRZ refers strike to ministry

Management said in the memo, seen by this newspaper, that the industrial action was illegal, but sources revealed they were now scrambling for a settlement from the Ministry of Labour. NRZ employees, numbering about 9 000 nationwide, downed their tools on Tuesday, demanding payment of outstanding salaries and allowances,…

White farmers on high alert

Olivier Hendrick, a director of CFU, said the union was concerned by the renewed farm invasions."We have communicated to our remaining farmers to be cautious and vigilant. Our duty is to protect our members and to urge them not to take the law into their own hands. We…

Vehicle loan scheme for civil servants

Modalities for the proposed scheme are currently being worked out by the Public Service Commission (PSC), according to Nelson Chamisa, the acting Minister of Public Service."I indicated in Parliament that there are other incentives to deal with issues concerning civil servants. It is not enough but it is…

ZANU-PF Malema protest angers ANC

During the protest, the Zimbabwean youth group handed a petition to staff at the South African high commission in Harare complaining about the "persecution" of Malema, who faces five charges for allegedly sowing division and bringing the ANC into disrepute. ANC secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, said yesterday that he…

I’m not bitter: Mudzuri

Instead, Mudzuri, who lost his post as energy minister last year before losing the post of national organising secretary to Nelson Chamisa in May this year, pledged his unwavering support to party leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.After he was reduced to an ordinary member of the MDC-T, Mudzuri…

President’s men dragged to court

The two are senior executives of the forum, ordered by an independent arbitrator last month to pay a former information and documentation manager of the NECF, Dennis Rwafa, about US$198 991 in salary arrears.Ndhlukula and Katsande deputise the chief secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Misheck…