Zimbabwe MPs to be paid US $30 000 each this month..$4 million windfall
Just when we thought teachers and nurses will be the happiest voters this month, it has turned out that politics not education and academic qualifications, is the biggest game in town..Members of Parliament are set to get a $4 million windfall in the next few days for their outstanding allowances. Each MP is expected to […]
European Union to Deploy 140 Election Observers in Zimbabwe
This election season in Zimbabwe is quite different from previous ones. There is minimal election violence. But most notable – the absence of the two candidates, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, who had become permanent names on the ballot paper. Mugabe was forced out of office by the army last year and Tsvangirai succumbed to […]
Statement by MDC Aliance President Advocate Nelson Chamisa
Fellow Zimbabweans, I come before you to express my gratitude for the tremendous support, solidarity and kindness that you have shown to the cause, to us, particularly myself and my esteemed colleagues in the MDC Alliance. I cannot thank you enough for the inspiring courage, bravery and commitment that you have demonstrated in the last […]
Zimbabwe in electoral row over Mnangagwa’s name heading up a column
A row has erupted over the order in which the names of Zimbabwe’s 23 presidential candidates taking part in elections at the end of this month, will appear on the ballot paper. Zimbabweans go to the polls on July 30. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s name is one of those which will appear at the top of […]
Chinese Yuan to Become Reserve Currency of Lesotho?
LESOTHO is among 14 eastern and southern African countries that are considering the adoption of the Chinese yuan as a reserve currency to facilitate the repayment of loans being advanced by the Asian economic giant for infrastructural developments. A team of Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) officials recently joined their eastern and southern African counterparts […]
Oppressive media laws dampen hopes of change in Zimbabwe
Six months have passed since a coup d’état in Zimbabwe ended the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe, who turned the southern African country into one of the most censored environments in the world. Although the seismic shift in the political situation raised hope for a new, more open era for the country’s media, little has […]
iflix and NBCUniversal team up to offer iflix users a huge slate of everyone’s favourite TV shows and movies
iflix (www.iflix.com), the world’s leading Internet TV service for emerging markets, offering subscribers unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more, today announced it has entered into major multi-year content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal (NBCU) to add a huge selection of the studio’s most popular and critically acclaimed titles to iflix’s extensive library. […]
Zimbabwe’s nonagenarian Robert Mugabe resigns, ending four decades of rule
Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday, a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end four decades of rule by a man once feted as an independence hero who became feared as a despot. His former vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking this month prompted the military takeover that […]
President Morgan Tsvangirai’s Statement to the Press About the Zimbabawe Situation
Today, I convened a meeting of the party’s Standing Committee in Harare to deliberate on the current situation in the country. Our country has been undergoing an extremely difficult period since the disputed and illegitimate election of 2013. Unemployment, poverty, corruption and cash shortages have become commonplace. At the centre of this crisis, is a […]
Deposed Vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa back in Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe has fled to Namibia and Robert Mugabe is detained by military in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s dictator Robert Mugabe has been detained by the military in a ‘bloodless correction’ of power amid claims his wife has fled to Namibia. Mugabe’s decades-long grip on power appeared to be over this morning after military vehicles blocked roads outside the parliament in Harare and senior soldiers delivered a late-night television address to the […]
