HARARE - Flamboyant rhumba and sungura musician Energy Mutodi has claimed he is being intimidated and threatened for bidding to stand on a Zanu PF ticket in Goromonzi constituency. On Saturday, the Chigorodanda hit-maker claimed two men threatened to force their...

HARARE - A group of Southern African leaders on Friday called on Zimbabwean leaders to fully implement the power-sharing Global Political Agreement (GPA) before the country goes to a watershed election that is threatened by a chaotic mobile voter registration exercise....

HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday came face-to-face with the hassles Zimbabweans are facing in the ongoing chaotic voter registration exercise as he took his 18-year-old twins to register as first time voters. It took about 30 minutes for the...

HARARE - Police have continued their onslaught on civil society members, following the arrest of  Tawanda Chimhini, director for Election Resource Centre yesterday. Chimhini was summoned and detained at  Harare Central Police Station on allegations of running an illegal voter education...

HARARE - A High Court judge has granted bail to 19 MDC activists arrested for allegedly impersonating government officials after they moved door to door in Harare in a voter registration campaign. Judge Felistas Chatukuta yesterday ordered each of the 19...

HARARE - Police have launched a manhunt for a gang of armed robbers who pounced on foreigners in Harare’s Avondale suburb over the weekend, getting away with over $44 000. Police spokesperson, Paul Nyathi, warned people operating businesses in Zimbabwe to...

HARARE - A High Court judge has dismissed an application to quash charges against a British-registered company, African Consolidated Resources Private Limited (ACR), accused of illegally mining diamonds in Marange. ACR is accused of fraud or alternatively contravening the Precious Stones...

BULAWAYO - Two Bulawayo men who allegedly connived to dupe an unsuspecting motorist by manufacturing and supplying a fake vehicle registration document for a client’s car for R7 500 have been freed on $200 bail each. Leopold Kudakwashe Mhike, 29, and...

HARARE - Zimbabwe’s conservation and tourism sector has entered a “New Dark Age,” and its crown jewel, the Save Valley Conservancy (SVC), could shut down any moment from now, a leading conservationist and investor has said. Fingers are pointing at Deputy...

HARARE - Information minister and Zanu PF political commissar Webster Shamu says the country cannot be taken through a pen — in remarks that could set the tone for potentially-violent polls. The Chegutu East MP made the chilling remarks as he...

HARARE - Fireworks are expected at tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting as the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC takes the electoral war to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF over a voter registration programme mired in controversy and renewed crackdown on pro-democracy groups. Matters...

HARARE - President Robert Mugabe yesterday evoked history in order to lure the elusive Bulawayo vote ahead of crunch watershed elections expected later on this year. He was addressing a memorial service held in Bulawayo for the late Vice President John...

HARARE - Crusading on an indigenisation programme — the corporate version of the farm invasions a decade ago — President Robert Mugabe is seeking to shore up his support ahead of an election which promises not only to be his last,...

HARARE - An urgent chamber application filed by Marange Resources (Marange) at the High Court to stop an arbitration process initiated by Core Mining Resources has failed to help as the appointed mediator begun the process last Friday. Marange Resources, a...

HARARE - Like members of a single family, women from across the political divide gathered in Harare to plot their ascendancy to power in the upcoming elections. Dubbed “Vote for a woman campaign”, the project aims at boosting women’s numbers in...

HARARE - An Epworth man narrowly escaped death after he was stabbed by his neighbour for asking for his $1 loan back. Tinashe Chitanda, 26, was rescued by onlookers after Tichaona Maurara, 33, continuously stabbed him. Maurara was advised to apply...

HARARE - A Harare man who teamed up with his wife to beat his girlfriend is now in trouble with the law. The couple ganged up to beat Memory Chitanga after they met her at the maintenance court. Pious Makiwa, 41,...

BULAWAYO - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s says delays in conducting primary elections are due to infiltration by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. A senior MDC official claimed Zanu PF had infiltrated the party and was causing confusion. Speaking at a Bulawayo...

HARARE - Four officials from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office accused of breaching the Official Secrets Act, possessing articles for criminal use and impersonating the police appear in court today. Thabani Mpofu, Mehluli Tshuma, Felix Matsinde and Warship Dumba, who all...

HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is considering clearing an expelled Chitungwiza councillor to contest in primary elections as reward for blowing the whistle on corruption in the municipality. MDC sacked all the councillors it had in the dormitory town...

HARARE - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says AfrAsia Kingdom Zimbabwe Limited (AKZL)’s banking unit Kingdom Bank Limited (Kingdom) is in a “sound financial position to continue normal business”. This comes on the back of media reports that Kingdom is...

HARARE - Zanu PF has appealed for divine intervention to deal with endemic corruption, with a Cabinet minister telling church leaders on Friday that he is ashamed of the riches amassed by some of his comrades. Addressing an Apostolic Christian Council...

HARARE - Poor funding by government is fuelling high incidences of cervical cancer cases and fatalities, a Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (Caz) official has said. Caz programmes general manager Junior Mavu said government should prioritise the preventable and curable disease that...

HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has given a smooth passage for securocrats and other civil servants keen to stand on the party ticket in the forthcoming elections. While the fate of these two groups is seemingly secure following the...