News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Saturday, 12 January 2013 10:05
HARARE - Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe has returned home to prepare for the forthcoming elections. There was swirling speculation that the Namibian jurist could be replaced after extended period of absenteeism that saw his deputy Joyce Kazembe...Read More
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Tuesday, 08 January 2013 11:37
HARARE - A surprise confession was made recently by Julius Malema. The former ANC Youth League president said that he was now an ordinary person and would no longer be “selling policies that are not sellable”. In order to avoid...Read More
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Friday, 28 December 2012 14:52
HARARE - Fissures have appeared in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC in Mashonaland East's Chikomba district as bigwigs compete for political space ahead of primary elections set for early next year. The province’s chairperson Piniel Denga who is also Mbare House...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:42
HARARE - A top research institute has said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) secretariat remains wholly unreformed and full of intelligence agents and cannot deliver free and fair elections. The Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI), a public think tank said in a...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Sunday, 23 December 2012 12:42
HARARE - Members of Parliament will not be taking a break during the festive holiday as many of them will be campaigning in their constituencies ahead of the watershed elections next year. It is now election season and most of the...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Saturday, 01 December 2012 12:57
HARARE - Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe has relocated to Namibia to continue serving in that country’s Supreme Court as a judge. Zec is an independent election management board responsible for all elections and referendum in the...Read More
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:41
HARARE - Health practitioners are now more concerned with making money rather than looking after patients, Dr Timothy Stamps, Health advisor to the President and Cabinet said yesterday. Speaking ahead of a Health Expo entitled ‘‘Healthy Aging: Non communicable Diseases...Read More
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Tuesday, 20 November 2012 11:52
BULAWAYO - Industry minister Welshman Ncube’s MDC faction has fired more MPs, a move that would leave the party with only three seats in the House of Assembly. Ncube and party secretary-general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga dismally lost the 2008 parliamentary elections and...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Tuesday, 20 November 2012 10:54
HARARE - Members of Parliament will next year share a total of $5 million in Constituency Development Funds (CDF) in an allocation that will bankroll the MP’s re-election campaign projects. Finance minister Tendai Biti told Parliament on Thursday during the 2013...Read More
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Thursday, 15 November 2012 11:32
HARARE - Harare City Council has dropped plans to open butcheries across the city, claiming the move will drive private players out of business. The city had last year resolved to boost its low revenue base by getting into the butchery...Read More
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Friday, 02 November 2012 17:31
HARARE - The Coca-Cola system was the biggest winner of the 2012 Zimbabwe Marketing Efforts Awards hosted during the Marketers of Zimbabwe Convention held in Victoria Falls recently. Coca-Cola and its bottlers, Delta Beverages and Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited scooped four awards...Read More
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:24
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe today officially opens the fifth session of the Seventh Zimbabwe Parliament after an inexplicable and inordinate delay. Mugabe’s opening of Parliament comes barely a week after his unsolicited declaration at the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference that the...Read More
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Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:33
HARARE - Zimbabwe-focused junior gold miner New Dawn Mining Corporation gold production for the year ended September 30, 2012, surged 41 percent to 37 623 ounces from 26 689 ounces in the previous year. Revenue from gold sales for the fiscal...Read More
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Friday, 19 October 2012 10:56
HARARE - As budget consultation meetings begin, we are left wondering if the decision to include ever squabbling MPs in the budget consultation process will not derail the process rather than make it more efficient and transparent. We all know what...Read More
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Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:55
HARARE - Members of Parliament plan to hold a pre-budget convention for four days next month at the plush Elephant Hills Intercontinental Resort and Spa, a Zambezi riverfront hotel synonymous with treating guests to frolic, pamper and play. The 2012 pre-budget...Read More
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