Boeing demands US$2,7m from govt
AMERICAN aircraft manufacturer Boeing is demanding US$2,7 million from the government in order to supply manuals for four Boeing 777 jetliners which Harare is controversially acquiring from Malaysia on...
View ArticleUproar as police vote clandestinely
Uproar has erupted among the opposition MDC Alliance, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and the police over the law enforcement officers’ clandestine and illegal voting in Bulawayo yesterday, which...
View ArticleMilitary evicts new farmer at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE’S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s elderly cleric neighbour — at gunpoint — from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on...
View ArticleChombo demands post-coup justice
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing a plethora of charges ranging from fraud, criminal abuse of office and corruption, yesterday made a constitutional application for a declaratory...
View ArticleGrace VP dream wrecks MDC Alliance-NPF coalition talks
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe’s ambition to become vice-president has torpedoed coalition talks between the MDC Alliance and the National Patriotic Front (NPF), resulting in the disbandment of a...
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In pictures: Military evicts new farmer at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE’S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s elderly cleric neighbour — at gunpoint — from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on...
View ArticleGovt pressures Zesa to pay Chivayo US$52m
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration — in many ways carrying over from where toppled former president Robert Mugabe’s regime left — has given the green light for Wicknell Chivayo to access a...
View ArticleMnangagwa’s nasty fallout with cleric
Zanu PF supporters aligned to a faction sympathetic to President Emmerson Mnangagwa attempted to elbow out his neighbour Reverend Isaac Tititi Moyo — with whom he has had a nasty fallout — from a farm...
View ArticleArmy responds to farmer eviction story
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) yesterday responded to the Zimbabwe Independent story that it had forcibly evicted the cleric, claiming that no force was used, but that it only went in to protect...
View ArticleBallot printing done: Chigumba
ZIMBABWEANS will on July 30 hold make-or-break general elections, in which 23 presidential candidates will battle it out, although in reality it is a two-horse race. This will be first elections in the...
View ArticleJudges, generals and post-coup dynamics
Soon after the toppling of former president Robert Mugabe in November last year in a coup and the ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, High Court judge Charles Hungwe immediately ruled that the...
View ArticleZim govt hunts for US$2bn funding
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is frantically negotiating a critical US$2 billion bailout package with a top Chinese bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), and other...
View ArticleChamisa popularity shoots up
THE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has built an election campaign momentum which has seen his popularity dramatically surging 6% in the last two months, hot on the heels of President Emmerson...
View ArticleZEC quarantines 92 000 from voters’ roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has quarantined an estimated 92 000 irregular voters — such as those with inaccuracies or duplication — from the voters’ roll ahead of crucial polls set for July...
View ArticleWe have a transitional plan: MDC
The MDC Alliance says it has a strategy to ensure that the country’s security establishment does not torpedo the opposition coalition’s presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, from ascending to power...
View ArticleUS to intensify sanctions on Zim
THE United States Senate and Congress have passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act (ZIDERA) sanctions amendment Bill (S. 2779), energised at the behest of the opposition’s...
View ArticleBomb attack: Govt hires foreign ballistics experts
GOVERNMENT has hired seven Belarusian ballistics experts to assist in the multi-agency security team investigating the deadly Bulawayo grenade attack which occured soon after President Emmerson...
View ArticleMonday elections critical
THERE is a sense among some Zimbabweans in the air that next Monday’s elections are as critical as the 1980 ones. BY ANDREW KUNAMBURA Judging by the turn-up at rallies, there are two candidates who are...
View ArticleElection material dispatched
ALL election material, including polling booths and ballot paper, have now been dispatched to the 10 provincial command centres for onward transportation to the constituency elections offices ahead of...
View Article‘MDC Alliance wary of rigging plans’
THE MDC Alliance has raised alarm over plans to rig elections next week as the opposition coalition’s intelligence officers claim that Zanu PF is working tooth and nail to ensure it wins at least seven...
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