November 26, 2024
AG Johannes Tomana last week wrote to the President of the Council of the EU, Van Rompuy, asking for a "statement of reasons" for applying restrictive measures on natural and legal persons and entities. He gave the EU 14 days to respond to his letter.The EU imposed the…
Mbudzi warned that ZANU-PF faced annihilation in the next elections against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) unless it undertook "systematic organisational re-alignment and renewal".Mbudzi, who now calls himself a special ZANU-PF member, said there was an urgent need for the party to regenerate by…
Mutinhiri, the legislator for Marondera East, was fired from ZANU-PF last week for bringing the name of the party into disrepute.She had appealed against a decision by the Mashonaland East provincial leadership to suspend her from the party for a period of five years, but her appeal was…
WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks and whistleblowers, made startling revelations recently that several high-ranking officials of the MDC-T mocked the premier in separate interactions with American diplomats.They include the party's influential secretary-general, Tendai…
The diplomatic cables being published by WikiLeaks in dribs and drabs suggest that some of those around the veteran nationalist no longer want him to remain at the helm of the party he has led since 1977, but are afraid of asking him to retire him from both…
In the letter to JOMIC, the party's secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, described stories published by the local private media on ZANU-PF as "weird reporting". Mutasa said ZANU-PF wanted JOMIC to investigate the reporting of ZANU-PF in the private media."ZANU-PF is concerned with the kind of journalism being…
This is despite a ruling by the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo, who absolved the Justice Minister last month of contempt of Parliament.Chinamasa is being accused by the mines committee of lying under oath about governments' handling of the controversial SMM. He is alleged to…
The diplomats were ordered out of the country this week after they defected to the National Transitional Council (NTC) whose rag-tag army toppled Muammar Gaddafi from power in an operation largely backed by NATO forces.They have until tomorrow to leave the country.Last week, a group of jubilant Libyans…
Police spokesperson, Wayne Bvudzijena, said the police would no longer issue public comments on their probe of circumstances surrounding the death of Mujuru, saying they were now focused on preparing a report from the investigations."For now, we are not discussing anything that has come up," Bvudzijena told The…
The appeal for land is meant to contain a fallout between the affected families and government, which has run out of land to resettle the affected villagers.The 6 000 families are adamant they want to be relocated within the dam's vicinity so that they can also benefit from…
