Mugabe Claims: ‘Wifey Leads No Faction,..People Are just Jealous Of Grace’

Mugabe Claims: ‘Wifey Leads No Faction,..People Are just Jealous Of Grace’

President Robert yesterday defended his wife, First Lady Grace Mugabe, saying she did not lead a faction and her critics were jealous because of her work and had nothing to offer. Addressing the Zanu-PF central committee, Mugabe said neither Grace nor Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa led factions, saying this was fictitious and imaginary. “I want to pay tribute to the Women’s League … they have criss-crossed the country drumming up support. “They have shown that there…

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Mugabe’s Chinese Friend Who Allegedly Funded CIO Detained In Beijing

Mugabe’s Chinese Friend Who Allegedly Funded CIO  Detained In Beijing

Sam Pa, the enigmatic figure who allegedly helped finance the Central Intelligence Organisation before Zimbabwe’s elections, has been detained in Beijing according to a report in The Financial Times. The Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported that his detention was connected with an investigation into the former Chairman of the Chinese state owned oil company, Sinopec, by the Chinese ruling party’s anti-graft body. In 2012 Global Witness investigations revealed evidence that Zimbabwe’s feared and highly partisan…

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Minister Mombeshora Wants Michael Norman Connolly To Vaccate Boxwell Farm

THE Minister of Land and Rural Resettlement, Douglas Mombeshora, is locked in a legal wrangle with a white commercial farmer over the ownership of a farm in Bulilima district. The commercial farmer is allegedly refusing to vacate Boxwell Farm of McGee which was acquired by the government in terms of the Land Acquisition Act under the Land Reform programme. Mombeshora, through the Civil Division in the Attorney General’s Office, this week filed summons at the…

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Zanu PF Legislator ‘Justice Mayor Wadyajena’ Demands US$200,000 From Chiyangwa

Angered by gay jibe … Justice Mayor Wadyajena ZANU PF Gokwe Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena has demanded US$200,000 from Philip Chiyangwa for allegedly defaming him through a video recorded during a rally by First Lady Grace Mugabe in Chimanimani two weeks ago. In a letter of demand sent to Chiyangwa, party colleagues Acie Lumumba and deputy Manicaland provincial youth chair Mabuso Chinguno, Wadyajena through his lawyers, Machingauta and partners, demanded an apology and $200,000 from…

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‘Gvt Won’t Tolerate Debate On Economic Empowerment Law!’- Patrick Zhuwao .

‘Gvt Won’t Tolerate Debate On Economic Empowerment Law!’- Patrick  Zhuwao .

YOUTH and indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao says government is not going to tolerate any debate on the economic empowerment law. A furious Zhuwao who appeared to be taking a dig at finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, told hundreds of cheering Zanu PF sympathisers attending his economic empowerment conference in Harare Friday that those wishing for the reversal of the law were ‘dreaming’. Chinamasa is on record saying that government was revising the controversial black empowerment law…

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Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Particularly Towards (11-16 Yr Olds), Plus HIV, Rise

Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Particularly Towards (11-16 Yr Olds), Plus HIV, Rise

CASES of sexual and gender-based violence are on the increase and, in most cases, victims are young girls aged between 11 and 16 years, according to the country’s health management information system. This was revealed during the official launch of the Sexual Gender Based Violence clinic at Wilkins hospital Thursday. National Aids Council (NAC) Harare Provincial AIDS Coordinator Adonija Muzondiona said by the end of 2014, NAC recorded a significant number of sexual violence cases…

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‘Zimbabwe’s Education System Is A Deadly Human Conveyor Belt Into An Ailing Economy’

‘Zimbabwe’s Education System Is A Deadly Human Conveyor Belt Into An Ailing Economy’

AS an educationist with extensive teaching experience at university level, I feel particularly saddened that the young people who are graduating in their thousands every year from all manner of colleges in the country are unable to obtain formal employment through which they can put their skills to use in assisting with the development of the country. Zimbabwe is churning out no less than ten thousand graduates every year from its many universities and colleges….

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George Charamba Received US$228 278 From Premier Service Medical Aid Society ‘Ca$hbert Scandal’

George Charamba Received US$228 278 From Premier Service Medical Aid Society ‘Ca$hbert Scandal’

WHILE media reports last year unearthed that President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba, a former board member of Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas), had received US$100, 000 from the organisation, it has emerged that he in fact received US$228 278 between 2009 and 2013 in board fees and allowances — a fortune for a civil servant. According to an Ernst and Young forensic investigation on the use of Psmas funds draft report 2015 addressed to the…

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Theo Bronkhorst ‘Cecil Hunt Organiser’ Says He’s Ruined By Cecil’s Death

Case postponed yet again … Theo Bronkhorst (right) arriving at Hwange court Thursday THE local hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of Cecil the lion said Thursday that his family and business had been destroyed amid the outcry which followed the lion’s death and that charges against him should be dropped. Government said on Monday it would not charge American dentist Walter Palmer, who killed its most prized lion with a bow and…

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Mphoko Hotel Stay ‘An Issue Beyond Parliament’s Realm’- Mnangagwa Tells Legislators

Mphoko Hotel Stay ‘An Issue Beyond Parliament’s Realm’- Mnangagwa Tells Legislators

  Mnangagwa: “I would like to tell you that some of these issues are for bigger or more senior people and should not be spoken about.” VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko’s controversial and costly stay in a luxury suite at a top Harare hotel since appointment last year cannot be discussed in Parliament, legislators were told Thursday. The injunction was issued by Mphoko’s counterpart, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Responding to a question from MDC-T Chitungwiza North…

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