ZANU-PF has intensified its campaign on members of the Apostolic sect this time deploying officials from the Registrar General who are giving birth and national registration certificates at the church gatherings.
HARARE – The trial of Zanu-PF activist and businessman Temba Mliswa continued at the Harare magistrate’s court Wednesday with key State witness, Paul Westwood narrating how stressed and traumatized he was when he was forced out of his company, Noshio Motors.
There is no set term limit for Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri and President Robert Mugabe has sole discretion to remove him, Home Affairs co-minister Kembo Mohadi said yesterday.
Chihuri’s term of office has been the subject of tense debate within the inclusive government, with Zanu PF resisting any moves to retire him. The two MDC parties were however pushing for the appointment of a new police chief.
HARARE – One of Robert Mugabe’s decorated bodyguards has died suddenly. Cain Chademana, a Senior Police Assistant Commissioner and one of Mugabe’s most trusted guards died last Thursday after a shot illness.
MDC-T has threatened a “No Vote” campaign if the proposed constitution does not reflect the will of the people.
The party also blamed Sadc for not being tough on Zanu PF in addressing outstanding issues in the implementation of the Global Political Agreement.
Members of the Standing Committee and National Executive, party leaders and officials,members of Harare Province, mayors and councilors, Ministers and members of Parliament, Members of the Diplomatic Corp, Invited Guests, comrades and friends. I wish to start today’s events with a minute of silence to mark the passing of our National Hero, Gibson Sibanda. Thank [...]
An election monitoring group in Zimbabwe has called on authorities to scrap controversial postal votes for police and instead introduce a new special voting system where law enforcement agents cast their ballots two days before polling day.
The inclusive government has come down heavily on George Charamba, the permanent secretary of Media, Information and Publicity, ordering him to immediately stop dabbling in politics.
The principals to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) — which led to the formation of the inclusive government — agreed at a meeting on August 4 that Charamba should not overshoot his responsibilities as a senior civil servant by dabbling in politics.
BULAWAYO – Controversy has dogged the revived Zapu party ahead of its congress at the end of the month following allegations of manipulation of the voting process during the party’s elections for the Bulawayo provincial executive.
Sources in the party said members of the party’s council of elders were manipulating the electoral process and imposing their choices on party
members.
DC supporters in Midlands South were last night attacked by a group of rowdy Zanu PF thugs led by Maguta soldiers at Musume Business Center in Mberengwa leaving three of the activists, including the driver, injured. The three, Cainos Shava, Artwell Chidya and Fidelis Rutsvara sustained injuries and were admitted at a Gweru hospital.
