The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) will at the weekend tell the SADC official facilitator to the present unity talks with Zanu PF, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, that the only way out of the present quagmire are speedy internationally-supervised free and fair elections, sources in the party said Tuesday.
Mugabe is expected to announce new politburo members at the party’s central committee meeting next week. The outgoing politburo met yesterday for the last time after its first meeting of the year last week. The central committee postponed its meeting last week as Mugabe was travelling to the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected a circular emanating from President Robert Mugabe’s office directing ministers to report to his two vice-presidents –– Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo –– instead of to him as cracks in the shaky inclusive government continue to widen.
A Harare Magistrate this week removed Pascal Gwezere, a senior official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party – charged with stealing weapons from an army barrack – from remand after the state failed to produce evidence linking him to the firearms theft.
Zimbabwe’s constitutional committee says a key exercise to consult citizens on the proposed new governance charter cannot go ahead without police backing, in the latest obstruction to the crucial reforms that are already behind schedule.
Diplomatic relations between governments of Botswana and Zimbabwe took a major tumble on Thursday after the former recalled key Embassy Attachés from Harare in protest of the continued incarceration of its Wildlife officers held after crossing into Zimbabwe by mistake during a patrol along the Lesoma Border.
The Supreme Court yesterday said all diamonds extracted from African Consolidated Resources’ claims should not be surrendered to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for safekeeping. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku said this while clarifying the meaning of an order he issued on January 25 this year. ACR had interpreted the Supreme Court order to mean all diamonds mined from their claims belonged to them.
Presenting the committee’s second report on the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s 2009 first quarter special report, chairperson Mr Tapiwa Mashakada (MDC) told the House of Assembly yesterday that they had unearthed massive irregularities.
Movement For Democratic Change(MDC) spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said utterances by ZANU-PF that MDC was responsible for sanctions which were imposed by the west and accusations that it is forwarding the agenda of the white community is a clear sign that the liberation party has run out of ideas.
A serving soldier with the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by an army judge-advocate after pleading guilty to conniving to steal 21 AK-47 rifles from Harare’s Pomona Barracks Armoury in October last year.
