Gukurahundi law divides Zimbabwe’s ruling party ZANU-PF
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s proposed law to address the Gukuruhundi atrocities is facing massive resistance from Zanu PF MPs, with some ruling party legislators openly declaring they will not support the Bill in Parliament. Mphoko is sponsoring the reworked National Peace and Reconciliation Bill, which among other issues, will deal with the emotive Gukurahundi, where […]
Zimbabwe Ministers, Top Officials Face Arrest
Government officials, including Cabinet ministers that ignore recommendations by parliamentary committees, may face prosecution in future once the Privileges, Immunities and Powers of Parliament Act is amended. This was revealed by National Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda during the Southern Africa Parliamentary Support Trust (Sapst) 10-year anniversary celebrations in Harare on Friday. Mudenda said the new […]
Ruling ANC Debates Motion to Remove Jacob Zuma
The top leadership of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is this weekend debating a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma. The news was first broken by the South African news site, News24.com, and confirmed to Bloomberg by five separate sources. The party’s National Executive Committee began a meeting outside Pretoria on Saturday […]
Zimbabwean man keeps 14-year-old as ‘sex slave’ for 3 days
A 25-year-old Gweru man will serve two-and-a-half years in prison for having sexual intercourse with his 14-year-old “girlfriend” whom he kept as a sex slave for three days. Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nokuthula Moyo has confirmed the sentence handed down to Luckson Chinogwa of Mtapa Suburb at the Gweru magistrate’s Court. Chinogwa was convicted […]
Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri faces jail, gets 14-day ultimatum
COMMISSIONER-GENERAL of Police, Augustine Chihuri, was on Monday given a 14-day ultimatum to pay $58 131 in terminal benefits to a former top officer, failure of which he will be jailed for 30 days for contempt of court. High Court judge, Justice Jester Helena Charehwa, ruled in favour of the former officer, Anatos Mpofu, who […]
Child Smuggling On Zimbabwe-South Africa Border Surges
A total of 150 children were this year intercepted while being smuggled into either South Africa or Zimbabwe, while 79 local minors are being held at care centres in Limpopo province, an action committee has revealed. A quarterly meeting of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Cross-Border Coordination Committee for Unaccompanied and Separated Migrant Children raised concern over […]
Horror Proliner bus accident driver “mentally unstable”
The driver of a South African-registered haulage truck which sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus killing 31 people on the spot and leaving 40 others injured near Mvuma along the Harare-Masvingo Highway, has reportedly become mentally unstable. Regis Mangwari appeared before Mvuma resident Magistrate Mr Tayengwa Chibanda facing 31 counts of culpable homicide. He was not […]
20 firms eye National Railways of Zimbabwe stake
MORE than 20 potential investors have expressed interests in partnering the National Railways of Zimbabwe in its bid to recapitalise its operations. In a telephone interview with Sunday Business on Friday, NRZ board chairman Mr Larry Mavima said the company was overwhelmed by the response it was getting from various potential investors across the globe. […]
Zimbabwean Minister Saviour ‘Tyson’ Kasukuwere fires 25 Chitungwiza councillors
Embattled Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday fired all the 25 Chitungwiza councillors over corruption allegations. MDC organising secretary for Chitungwiza Rangarirai Mutingwende alleged the move was a part of a bigger plot to enable the cornered Zanu PF national political commissar to investigate town clerk George Makunde, whom he accuses of abusing office by […]
Does Declassified Documents Pin France On Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi
It has been 23 years since the start of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Pope Francis this year begged forgiveness for the Church’s role in the Rwandan tragedy, nineteen years after then US President Bill Clinton’s apology. But France, accused of complicity in the Genocide, refuses to apologise, often slamming Rwandans for distorting history. However, […]
