A FACTION within ZAPU has broken ranks with the party’s leadership two weeks before crucial elections, citing irreconcilable differences over the manner the party is being run.Documents seen by The Financial Gazette show that the faction passed a vote of no confidence in Dumiso Dabengwa, the ZAPU leader, and elected…
THE Constitutional Court sits today to consider an application in which the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations are seeking to have the July 31 poll date extended by two weeks, amid clear indications that President Robert Mugabe has outwitted his archrivals by making it difficult for them to…
ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) have been rocked by fissures following disputed primary elections aimed at choosing candidates for the forthcoming polls, but President Robert Mugabe’s party appears hardest hit.Sources this week said President Mugabe was likely to personally intervene to lessen the impact of the fall-out…
SOME 117 years ago Zimbabwe’s first colonialist, Cecil John Rhodes, after falling in love with one of the country’s most beautiful natural settings, the rolling mountains of Nyanga, wrote thus to his agent: “Dear McDonald, Inyanga is much finer than you described…..Before it is all gone, buy me quickly up…
AGRICULTURE is of great importance to our well being hence all Zimbabweans should now forget the past and focus on reviving the sector for the future benefits that lie in the industry.Zimbabwe had a sound agricultural sector for years and was the breadbasket of southern Africa. Agriculture occupied a central…
PARLIAMENT has once again raised the red flag over the manner in which the country’s diamonds are being extracted in Chiadzwa with the latest report by the legislature condemning Mines Minister Obert Mpofu for breaching the country’s laws, The Financial Gazette can exclusively report.In a damning report by the Parliamentary…
THE estate of the late retired army general Solomon Mujuru, a tactful ZANU-PF kingmaker who died in an inferno at his Beatrice farm, has not yet been registered with the Master of the High Court, nearly two years since his death.Mujuru had vast interests cutting across all sectors of Zimbabwe’s…
… as options narrow DEPUTY Prime Minister (DPM) Arthur Mutambara is keeping the nation guessing with regards to his options and future in politics as the curtains is about to come down on the drama-filled life of the inclusive government, The Financial Gazette can report.Weekend reports had suggested that Mutambara…