November 25, 2024
The endorsement comes six months after President Mugabe told a meeting with editors regarding his possible re-election that: “if ZANU-PF says yes, I will stand.” His comments raised questions over the party’s succession policy, especially after recent revelations that a committee that had been established to work on…
Latest reports to the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC) and the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC), indicate that the coaching of people on what to say during the constitutional outreach has been rampant, threatening to turn the process into an exercise in futility.In a report to COPAC,…
Last week Pretoria announced it had decided to stop allowing Zimbabweans to stay in South Africa without proper travel documents. The South African cabinet said the decision was taken in order to legitimatise the estimated three million Zimbabweans living in that country illegally, the bulk of which hold…
During a full council meeting held last week, councillors enquired whether the former commissioners had been exempted from paying their rates, service charges and excess water. Since 2004, Harare was run by a commission led by Sekesai Makwavarara following her defection from MDC-T to ZANU-PF, before it was…
It bothered everyone, and on the busy Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge road, it was always a nightmarish experience and nobody dared travel without uttering a prayer.There are patches and too few of those deep holes now, but for public transport operators and their passengers, and even for the private car drivers,…
Reketayi Semwayo, ZANU Ndonga’s national chairperson, has approached Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai requesting that the coalition government grant Sithole a national hero status post-humously.“I would like to remind you about our meeting with you at your Munhumutapa offices on 15 February 2009, after your inauguration as the Prime…
Kudzai Bare, Staff Reporter TEACHERS yesterday served the government of national unity (GNU) with a formal notice to strike within a fortnight as civil servants intensify their fight for better remuneration and improved working conditions. As schools continued sending children back home over unpaid fees and levies, teachers’…
The more than 40 pilots said while they remain loyal to the airline and its passengers, they have been forced by circumstances beyond their control to withdraw their labour due to financial pressures they were experiencing as a result of the non-payment of allowances owed to them, estimated…
The evictions are part of the first phase of an initiative by the Ministry of National Housing and Social Amenities of taking stock of government property as well as getting rid of undeserving occupants who are refusing to vacate the State residences.The ministry has been under intense pressure…
Feeling hard done by Mutambara, who played right into ZANU-PF’s hands, the larger faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), headed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, is seething with anger and has since communicated with Zuma’s facilitation team repudiating the deputy premier’s assertions that have also been…
