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Chibebe lands top global union post

The move comes as the hard-talking ZCTU secretary-general had begun ruffling feathers within the business community over his agitation for better remuneration for workers, which had resulted in favourable arbitration awards to employees in several sectors that have upset business.Chibebe will be based in Belgium.He succeeded Prime Minister…

Fingaz rules the roost

Its rival, The Zimbabwe Independent trailed with a readership of five percent after gaining 25 percent during the period, the latest Zimbabwe All Media and Products Survey (ZAMPS) — (Q4, 2010) revealed.Rural readership for both newspapers was at one percent apiece, while the national readership score for The…

Welshman Ncube digs in

The legality of the Ncube-led executive is being challenged in court by the party’s former acting national chairman, Jobert Mudzumwe and 13 other disgruntled MDC members. The splinter group is also challenging the nomination processes of national executive members while demanding an audit of the party’s books, the…

Mutambara in quandary

ZANU-PF insiders indicated that the party had, in recent days, welcomed an undisclosed number of former MDC card-carrying members who had defected in solidarity with Mutambara, rendering the former student leader a shepherd without a flock and threatening his planned reshuffle.It was not immediately clear why the members…

Litmus test for referendum

This is the million dollar question among Zimbabweans as some sections of civic society led by the country’s militant National Constitutional Asse-mbly (NCA), go on the over-drive mobilising people to reject the draft constitution at a referendum.This is despite the fact that the Constitution Parliamentary Sele-ct Committee (COPAC),…

MDC confirms pull-out plan

It has also emerged that the party’s leadership agreed with President Robert Mugabe on a seven day timeframe to make an official determination on DPM Arthur Mutambara’s future in the unity government.Ncube met President Mugabe     on Tuesday, ahead of today’s crucial national council meeting that is    likely to…

Political violence on increase

MDC-T supporters who include women and children have since been offered refuge at the party’s Harvest House headquarters in Harare. By late yesterday, paper work was still being processed to accommodate some of the affected families in safe houses.At least six houses in Epworth had windows shattered and…

ZCFU splits

Market sources indicated that a considerable number of disgruntled farmers had turned their backs on the ZCFU to form a rival union to be led by controversial politician, Xavier Kadhani.Kadhani is a Mashonaland Central farmer who escaped jail after being acquitted of attempted murder following a shoot-out on…

Matonga reinstated

Matonga, who is also the lawmaker for Ngezi and a former chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company, was last year fired from the party post for willfully absenting himself from crucial provincial party meetings, in what the ZANU-PF leadership in the area said was in…

Roy Bennett faces extradition

This week, the AG’s Office revealed that Bennett faces contempt of court charges, and an extradition process was currently underway.This is the first time that prosecutors have gone on record saying the former Chimanimani commercial farmer faces contempt of court charges after Bennett was slapped with a US$1…