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…

This newspaper reported last week that a fourth splinter organisation claiming to be non-partisan was in the offing as fresh fissures emerged in ZNLWVA.For example, ex-combatants from ZIPRA — the former armed wing of the old ZAPU — have inaugurated their own political grouping in Matabeleland presently on…

The data capturing exercise, to collate views gathered from Zimbabweans during the outreach programme last year, could grind to a halt any time soon, casting a dark cloud on the country’s ability to have a new constitution before fresh polls.COPAC co-chairperson, Douglas Mwonzora, confirmed this week that the…

The local authority proposed a US$260,4 million budget in December last year, but it drew 378 residents’ objections that sought to compel city fathers to revisit it.Last week council met and decided to proceed with its original plans, in a clear defiance of the resident’s objections. Town Clerk,…

At its first meeting for 2011 held last Wednesday, the party’s supreme decision-making body in-between congresses, went at lengths to debate the simmering fall-out within the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), but the matter had to be postponement to a date yet to be announced after…

DWTL creditors were due to meet at the High Court yesterday to present proof that they were indeed owed by the company before it collapsed in August last year.“The Master of the High Court said since one shareholder and a few other people had not received the report,…

Germany, through the local embassy, said it was concerned by renewed efforts to gain control of the Save Valley Conservancy Trust, of which German national, Willy Pabst, owner of Sango Ranch, is one of the major shareholders.A number of politicians have over the years expressed interest in becoming…

The appointment of ambassadors is one of the contentious outstanding issues in the shaky inclusive government brought to the attention of Zuma in October last year.But in an interesting turn of events, Mpelekezela Mphoko, Zimbabwe’s former ambassador to Russia, is due to present his     credentials to Zuma this…

Ncube’s first standing committee meeting held in Harare a fortnight ago resolved that Mutambara be recalled from the top executive post by virtue of surrendering the party’s presidency after declining to seek re-nomination.But in a shocking revelation on Sunday, President Mugabe said his hands were legally tied regarding…

Information obtained by The Financial Gazette indicates that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party came to the conclusion that any future election should be held under a new constitution although its crafting is presently bedevilled by a myriad of political and financial problems.The party also demanded that there be…