Zanu-PF Hurungwe West winner, Keith Guzah ,scandal and dispute with Mliswa deepens

Zanu-PF  Hurungwe West  winner, Keith Guzah ,scandal and dispute with Mliswa deepens

The damaging claims that Zanu-PF winning candidate for Hurungwe West Keith Guzah may not have been registered to vote in the constituency in last week’s by-elections – which could see him losing his parliamentary seat – has taken a new twist. The ruling party is now shifting the blame for the debacle to the beleaguered Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), accusing the Rita Makarau-led electoral body of sleeping on the job and doing a shoddy job…

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After Prophet Walter Magaya, Mugabe also attacks the Apostolic Faith

After Prophet Walter Magaya,  Mugabe also attacks the Apostolic Faith

President Robert Mugabe has attacked members of the Vapositori (apostolic sect members), for refusing to take their children to school and hospitals, citing it as one of the country’s major draw backs. Speaking at a ceremony for the official opening of the junior Parliament and the swearing in of the junior president in Harare yesterday, Mugabe said that members of the Vapositori were not forthcoming on the issue of education and medical treatment. “Yes then,…

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Dzikamai Mavhaire & Olivia Muchena booted out of Senate in more Zanu-PF purges

Dzikamai Mavhaire &  Olivia Muchena  booted out of  Senate in more  Zanu-PF  purges

FORMER Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and ex- Higher Education minister Olivia Muchena have been booted out of the Senate as Zanu-PF continues its purges against allies of ousted former Vice-President Joice Mujuru, The Standard reported.Mavhaire and Muchena’s recall from Parliament was announced by President of the Senate Edna Madzongwe. “I would like to inform the Senate that on June 11, I was notified by Zanu-PF that both Calisto Dzikamai Mavhaire [Masvingo Province senator] and Olivia…

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Kasukuwere awarded Brainworks gvt advisory, $100m deal , without tender

Kasukuwere awarded Brainworks gvt advisory, $100m  deal , without   tender

PRIVATE equity group, Brainworks Capital, expected  to earn a healthy $100 million when it was contracted to advise the government in its bid to force foreign mining companies to comply with the country’s indigenisation laws. The company was awarded the deal by a department in the empowerment ministry then headed by Saviour Kasukuwere without going to tender. “It’s not our duty to know whether there was supposed to be tenders or not,” Brainworks’ chief executive,…

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Two Zanu-PF, Matebeleland MPs, fight Plumtree businessman over mine

Two  Zanu-PF, Matebeleland MPs,  fight Plumtree businessman over mine

TWO Zanu-PF legislators in Matabeleland South are fighting to reverse a ruling barring them from conducting mining operations at Ndabankulu Mine in Kezi after the High Court ordered them to suspend mining activities after businessman and Plumtree Chiefs Football Club director Lovemore Sibanda accused them of grabbing the mining claims while he was in the process of registering them. MPs Madodana Sibanda of Gwanda North and Soul Ncube of Matobo South and their supporters are…

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Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo pressure Tomana over marriage to 12 year olds utterances

Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo pressure  Tomana over marriage to 12 year olds utterances

President Robert Mugabe has piled pressure on under fire Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana who suggested that  girls as young as nine could consent to sex and married at 12. Mugabe said child marriages cause irreparable damage to the growth of young people. Last week, Tomana sparked outrage when he said girls as young as nine could consent to sex and married at 12. On Saturday, Mugabe said government could soon outlaw any marriage with a person…

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’15 foreign trips since January-Mugabe runs Zimbabwe via social media’-Chamisa

’15 foreign trips since January-Mugabe runs Zimbabwe via social media’-Chamisa

Opposition MDC-T MP Nelson Chamisa has claimed that President Robert Mugabe is running the country through WiFi. Mugabe has made 15 foreign trips since he returned home from a one-month vacation in the Far East in January. Chamisa said Mugabe’s travels are worrying. “In as much as we have to be techno savvy as a nation embracing ITCs, it is unacceptable to have a Wi-Fi government governed by WhatsApp and Twitter hoping to deliver services…

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For Zimbabweans, ‘Insulting Grace is more dangerous than taunting Mugabe’

For Zimbabweans, ‘Insulting Grace is more dangerous than taunting Mugabe’

AT least 70% of politically motivated violence cases experienced since January emanated from Zanu-PF supporters’ intolerance for the public’s opinion on Grace Mugabe, a local human rights watch dog has said. The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) siad Saturday that although it was “dangerous” in the yester-years to publicly denounce President Robert Mugabe this has not been the case since the beginning of the year. Instead, and in most cases, people reported being assaulted by Zanu-PF…

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‘MDC-T’s proportional MPs will not be kicked out,’ says VP Emmerson Mnangagwa

‘MDC-T’s proportional MPs will not be kicked out,’ says VP Emmerson Mnangagwa

VICE President Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has allayed fears some MDC-T MPs and senators elected to the house through proportional representation in 2013 may lose their seats.This comes as the main opposition’s legislative representation continues to be whittled down through by-elections. According to the new Constitution, 60 national assembly seats are reserved for women, 60 senatorial and 10 persons on each provincial council, elected on the basis of proportional representation. Of the 60 seats reserved for…

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‘To Zanu PF, May you never find peace’ Amos Midzi’s daughter on her dad’s death

‘To Zanu PF, May you never find peace’  Amos Midzi’s daughter on her dad’s death

FORMER cabinet minister and Zanu-PF provincial chairman Amos Midzi’s daughter took to social networking sites, spitting venom against the ruling party and the media for haunting her father into committing suicide. Vimbai Beverley Midzi, a media studies graduate who had an altercation with journalists at her father’s funeral is, according to insiders, alleged to have also temporarily stopped Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere from paying his last respects at the family home in Mt Pleasant….

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