‘Obama Calls For Gay Rights In Africa And Challenges Kenya Over Corruption’

US President Barack Obama on Saturday called for gay rights in Africa during his landmark visit to Kenya, comparing homophobia to racial discrimination he had encountered in the United States. Obama arrived in Kenya on Friday, his first visit as president to his father’s birthplace and the first to the East African nation by a serving US leader. “I’ve been consistent all across Africa on this. When you start treating people differently, because they’re different, that’s…

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‘It’s Either We Kick Out Zanu-PF From Power In 2018 Or We Are Doomed,’ – Tsvangirai

‘It’s Either We Kick Out Zanu-PF From Power In 2018 Or We Are Doomed,’ – Tsvangirai

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has warned that if Zimbabweans do not unite to kick out Zanu-PF from power, his party will be doomed. Addressing his supporters at Hauna Business Centre in Mutasa North yesterday, Tsvangirai said while his leadership will continue pushing for electoral reforms, the people needed to begin voter registration including even of 15-year-olds who would be eligible to vote in the next elections. “Rwendo rwuno hazvikoni nekuti zvikaerekana zvakona…

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‘Globe-Trotter Vascoda Mugabe’ Ever In Flight Yet National Sports Team, ‘Warriors’ Are Grounded

‘Globe-Trotter Vascoda Mugabe’ Ever In Flight Yet National Sports Team, ‘Warriors’  Are Grounded

President  Robert Mugabe, an assiduous globe-trotter over the 35 years he has ruled Zimbabwe, has this year hardly slept at home. The 91-year-old leader has roamed the world, finding a convenient excuse in his ceremonial roles as African Union and SADC chairman. The government is broke, but the treasury is forced to find millions of dollars to fund Mugabe’s foreign jaunts which now number 25 or so this year; and its only July. He travels…

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Grace Mugabe, Touted As One Of Mugabe’s Potential Successors Turns Fifty

Grace Mugabe, Touted As One Of Mugabe’s Potential Successors Turns Fifty

First Lady Grace Mugabe was yesterday showered with fawning birthday messages by government departments and parastatals as she turned 50 yesterday. Dozens of politicians, business people, and services chiefs have gone into a frenzy, send congratulatory messages to the First Lady, Grace Mugabe, as she celebrates her 50th birthday. The bootlicking by ministers and heads of parastatals has traditionally been reserved for Grace’s 91-year-old husband President Robert Mugabe. Grace, a former secretary who married Mugabe…

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Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) MD ‘Henry Mandishona’ Earns US$40 000 /month

Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) MD ‘Henry Mandishona’ Earns US$40 000 /month

Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) Managing director Henry Mandishona is reportedly taking home a cool $40 000 each month. His pay cheque is said to be four times higher than the recommended $11 000. According to the Zimbabwe Independent, took over from controversial Cuthbert  Dube. Psmas engaged consultants to stream line salaries, benefits and vehicles polices. The average monthly salary for the top brass before the current exercises was $65 000 with a few…

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‘Tsvangirai’s Brother ‘Casper’ Fraudulently Buys Vehicle Attached From Him By Deputy Sheriff’

‘Tsvangirai’s Brother ‘Casper’ Fraudulently Buys Vehicle Attached From Him By  Deputy Sheriff’

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s younger brother Casper allegedly fraudulently bought a vehicle attached from him and auctioned by a Deputy Sheriff two weeks ago to clear an almost $9 000 debt. The vehicle, a Toyota Landcruiser, was attached after Casper, a Kwekwe-based businessman and chartered accountant, failed to settle a $8 859,33 debt with Halstead Brothers (Pvt) Ltd. Lawyer James Magodora, who is representing Halstead Brothers, in a letter to the Deputy Sheriff said they…

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‘Regime Change Is Solution To Vendors Plight & Zanu PF Failure To Revive Economy’-Biti

Tendai Biti MDC Renewal Team Secretary-General yesterday said the plight of vendors lie in changing the government as Zanu-PF has failed to revive the economy. Biti said vendors must be allowed to continue selling their wares as an interim measure as that was their only way of survival under the current economic environment, where a majority of people were unemployed. The opposition party said it will at its inaugural convection in Harare next month, launch…

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‘Mutasa’s CIO Brother In Law ‘Felix Chiteme’ Dismissed For Being Sabina Mutasa’s Relative’

‘Mutasa’s CIO Brother In Law  ‘Felix Chiteme’ Dismissed For Being Sabina Mutasa’s  Relative’

THE Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has allegedly dismissed an operative on the grounds that he was related to Ousted former State Security minister Didymus Mutasa’s relative -Felix Chiteme has been fired from the  Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). Felix Chiteme, is brother to Mutasa’s wife, Sabina. Chiteme, a senior security assistant in the CIO was officially discharged on July 15 after a disciplinary board of inquiry hearing that allegedly accused him of leaking State secrets to…

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Mugabe’s Zanu PF, ‘Key Beneficiaries Of Entropy’ Used Terrorist Tactics On Itai Dzamara & Vendors

Mugabe’s  Zanu PF, ‘Key Beneficiaries Of Entropy’ Used Terrorist Tactics On Itai Dzamara & Vendors

“The Cabinet ministers, parliamentarians, policy makers and the President himself are folding their hands whilst this taboo is taking place because they are key beneficiaries of this ruling. Actually they are the ones who are behind it ,to protect they are companies and interests of their friends “the business people” who will fund them during 2018 elections.” Mutubuki said this same government is somehow behind the mysterious disappearance of the Leader of Occupy Africa Unite…

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‘African Journalists Should Avoid Unnecessary Criticism Of Africa’s Leaders’-Mugabe

‘African Journalists Should Avoid Unnecessary Criticism Of  Africa’s Leaders’-Mugabe

African journalists should champion developmental issues in their reportage and avoid unnecessary criticism of the continent’s leadership, African Union and SADC chairman President Robert Mugabe has said. President Mugabe was addressing the just ended Ebola Conference in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. He said Africans should be proud of their heritage and roots and not allow western nations to make them feel like a lesser people, adding journalists should tell the African story rather than allowing the…

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