HARARE – Harare mayor, Muchadeyi Masunda, has accused Zanu PF members of blocking an ambitious community empowerment project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates by seeking to unnecessarily politicise it.
Two senior police officers, an assistant inspector and a detective sergeant, were on Thursday brought before the court for allegedly demanding $6 000 from a Gweru businessman.
HARARE – A Harare lawyer who had a procedural misunderstanding with a prosecutor is in the dock for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe.
Brussels, 16 June 2011 — Mr Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, who spearheads the European Parliament’s campaign for freedom and democratic change in Zimbabwe, hosted a conference with leading Zimbabwean civil society activists. McDonald Lewanika (Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition)
HARARE – Zanu PF has come out with guns blazing following clearance by the South African police to allow civil society to access the venue of the summit and demonstrate.
The MDC-T has reported that hundreds of their supporters have fled from ZANU PF sponsored violence in the Chimanimani East districts of Cashel Valley and Kubvumbura, in Manicaland province. At least 20 are being sheltered at the MDC head office in Mutare, with others seeking medical treatment at local clinics.
Hundreds of Zimbabweans are likely to spend Christmas away from their families as they continue to battle to get proper documents from South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs to legalise their stay in the country.
HARARE – Zimbabwe is the new mining investment destination of choice, an investment banking group has said.
Zimbabwe been trailing behind the rest of the world in terms of mineral exploration and development and has lost out on major “commodity booms enjoyed elsewhere mainly as a result of the “lost decade” of 1998‐2009.
Workers at Zimbabwe’s state-owned airline have gone on strike over pay, causing flight cancellations and leaving scores of passengers stranded, state media reported on Thursday.
Christians in Zimbabwe are being mobilized to set the groundwork for national reconciliation and healing, even as the nation embarks on writing a new constitution.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said, “You can’t have healing without the church playing a very moral role, a leading role. I think it would be a misplacement of priorities to play the church as a political organization rather than as a spiritual organization which has an important place in a country where 80 percent are Christian,”.
Zimbabwe will undergo a three-month outreach to gather input from the citizenry through a referendum on what the new constitution should contai
