Politics

MDC Council Of Elders To Determine MP, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga’s Future

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MDC Council Of Elders To Determine MP, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga’s Future

THE Welshman Ncube led MDC has tasked its Council of Elders to consider if the party must heed growing calls for the ouster of its under fire MP, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga. The former regional integration minister and, now, Matebeleland South proportional representation MP, is in the eye of the storm for allegedly fanning divisions in the party. MDC youths, backed by party women, have in the past few days upped the campaign for the firebrand legislator…

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30 Years In Power, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, To Run Again Next Year

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30 Years In Power, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, To Run Again Next Year

UGANDA’s veteran president Yoweri Museveni got the formal go-ahead from his party to stand again in elections next year, setting him up for a possible tough confrontation with ally-turned-adversary, former prime minister Amama Mbabazi. Museveni, 71, has already dominated the east African nation for nearly 30 years, with a rule bolstered by economic growth, an often divided opposition and control of the security services. But analysts say Mbabazi – the ruling party’s former secretary general…

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Zimbabwe Has Lost Six Rhinos To Poachers Over The Last 15 Months

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Zimbabwe has lost six rhinos to poachers in the last 15 months leading to calls for better strategies tin protecting endangered species. Zimbabwe will this Tuesday join the rest of the world in commemorating World Rhino Day amid concerns over the increase in poaching activities. The rhino is an endangered species but from June 2014 to date, Zimbabwe lost six rhinos to poachers. Zimbabwe is now left with only 766 black and white rhinos. “The…

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‘Mugabe Retirement, Mnangagwa Take Over, Tsvangirai Deputy & 2018 Suspended’,..Coalition Again?

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‘Mugabe Retirement, Mnangagwa Take Over, Tsvangirai Deputy & 2018 Suspended’,..Coalition Again?

The country’s ruling party, Zanu-PF, is reportedly plotting to suspend the watershed 2018 Presidential and Parliamentary elections from 2018 to 2021, in a bid to buy political time to allow the fractured former liberation movement to repair and recover from feared collapse owing to intensified factionalism, and President Robert Mugabe’s succession fight, which has already split the party between VP Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ousted predecessor Joice Mujuru, The Telescope News, has reported. High level…

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Gvt Merges Some Departments , Redeploys Personnel, Cuts Transport Allowances

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Gvt Merges Some Departments , Redeploys Personnel, Cuts Transport Allowances

Government has begun implementing recommendations of the Civil service audit by merging some departments with duplicate functions, redeploying numerous workers and cutting transport allowances for hundreds of others. Transport allowances for civil servants benefiting from government free daily bus service will be cut and the money channelled to fleet maintenance. This would be effected this month. Office orderlies and teachers (and other Grade D5 workers) get at least $100 and $116 in monthly transport and…

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‘2 692 People Aged 10 to 19 , Treated For STI , ‘ January to March 2015’ NAC

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‘2 692 People Aged 10 to 19 , Treated For STI , ‘ January to March 2015’ NAC

About 2 692 people aged between 10 and 19 years where treated for the deadly sexually transmitted infections from January to March this year.  Harare accounts for highest   cases with 10 135 and Masvingo second with 8 166. The National Aids Council 2015 first quarter report indicates that more young people are now exposed to STIs due to unprotected sexual intercourse. The reports says the 25-49 age group contributed the heights patients with 30…

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Proposed Bill To Enforce US$500 Fine Or 6Months In Jail for Public Smoking

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SMOKING in public will attract a fine of US$500 or six months in jail after the country has aligned the Public Health Act on Tobacco Control Regulation 264 of 2001 with the World Health Organisation statutes, an official has said. The deputy director Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Mrs Docas Sithole, said Zimbabwe became an affiliate member of WHO on Tobacco Control in March this year and some…

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Mugabe Is President For Life: Zanu-PF National Commissar, Kasukuwere

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Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has declared that it is taboo for any official in the ruling party to dream of taking over power from President Robert Mugabe, as long as he is alive. Addressing a campaign rally in Mbire, Kanyemba Mashonaland Central province, Kasukuwere said ousted Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s waterloo was holding unsanctioned meetings with United States diplomats at her private residence. Kasukuwere said Mujuru was, in 2009, “dragged” by former Mbire MP David…

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Mugabe Gives 20 Minute Subdued ,Correct, ‘Skhanyiso Ndlovu’ Graveside Speech

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  President Robert Mugabe gave probably one of his subdued grave yard speech at the National Heroes Acre at the burial of Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu today. Mugabe (91) stuck to his ‘correct’ prepared speech and ran through it in record 20 minutes. Mugabe did not use the platform to attack his political opponents and the West. He is known for his unrestrained salvo at his rivals. In his brief off the cuff remarks, he said…

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