The demand by Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri (pictured) that the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) should cough up nearly US$3 million for police protection during its outreach exercise should be proof to all just why we need a new constitution.
A 29-kilogram consignment of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s controversial Chiadzwa diamond field has disappeared after being removed on Thursday night by police from the central bank, in violation of orders by the country’s supreme court, lawyers said at the weekend.
Zimbabwe’s civil servants, including teachers and doctors, went on strike Friday to demand an increase to their monthly salaries of 150 dollars (110 euros), their unions said. “Our members have declared that they are not going to work from today,” Cecilia Alexander, president of the Public Service Association, an umbrella body for the civil servants’ unions.
AIDS activists in Zimbabwe have launched a major drive to ensure that the rights of people living with HIV are enshrined in the new constitution.
The Zanu (PF) mouth-pieces, ZBC and Herald, had a field day blaming the MDC for the West imposed legal sanctions against Mugabe and more than 200 of his bootlickers.
Controversial mining house, Mbada Diamonds has been airlifting diamonds from Chiadzwa fields without the knowledge of the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and flouting Kimberley Process (KP) procedures, a parliamentary committee heard on Monday.
A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments.
The saga for succession to Robert Mugabe has gone for too long. The incumbent’s argument that he cannot retire because ZANU PF is riddled with factionalism on tribal basis is ridiculous and should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves.Instead Mugabe should have shown leadership and courage by rising above this petty argument and relinquish reins for someone to carry-on.
THE shaky inclusive government is facing renewed danger of collapse after ongoing inter-party negotiations yielded a stalemate over contentious issues confronting the three rival parties currently running the country.
The High Court has set down dates for a pre-trial conference in cases in which 17 political and human rights activists are suing four government ministers in damages for their roles in their abduction, torture and prosecution in 2008.
