CHAMISA CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) party will not contest the 2023 general elections if government does not allow the United Nations (UN) to observe the crunch vote. Chamisa said this while addressing thousands of supporters during a campaign rally in Mutare Saturday ahead of this coming weekend’s by-elections. “We have learnt from the past experiences, hence I wrote to SADC officials and some leaders from other countries including the United Nations,” he said. “I…

MDC-T LEADER THOKOZANI KHUPHE has officially announced that her party will rally behind Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to bring change in Zimbabwe.Khupe made the announcement at a Press conference in Bulawayo yesterday where she told journalists that her party members will rally behind CCC candidates in Saturday’s by-elections and the 2023 general elections.“We have agreed that we must come together, unite, join hands and rally behind Advocate Nelson Chamisa because come 2023, there is…

UNITED Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) chief executive officer Harrison Rambanapasi yesterday said the institution’s paediatric unit which reopened after 17 years of closure is functioning well with over 10 patients admitted.The unit was re-opened in January and increased the number of beds from 15 to 60.Prior to its opening, all paediatric cases from southern region were being referred to Mpilo Central Hospital.Rambanapasi told Southern Eye that the number of patients being admitted at the unit was…

ZIMBABWE’S BROKE GOVERNMENT deferrs US$1.75 billion compensation to white former commercial farmers who lost land during the country’s controversial agrarian reform programme after failing to raise the required funds.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said the government would make payments mid-year after missing the initial date, but government officials insist there is no money to pay.Two years ago, the southern African nation agreed to pay US$3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated…

KUDAKWASHE TAGWIREI, close adviser to Mnangagwa, made about US$90-million in possibly unlawful payments from RBZ while running a controversial agricultural support programme. He used some of the profits to buy gold mines and a platinum mine, according to a report published on Thursday by The Sentry, a US-based anti-corruption watchdog.ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close adviser, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, made about US$90-million in possibly unlawful payments from Zimbabwe’s central bank while running a controversial agricultural support programme.Tagwirei…

ZANU PF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT DEFEND the looting of US$1.6 billion under the Command Agriculture programme and are plotting to crucify vocal individuals, mainly from the opposition, they accuse of spreading falsehoods.In a report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Command Agriculture presented two weeks ago, former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe stand accused of superintending over a dodgy process through suspicious approvals of Treasury Bills that left…

VICE-PRESIDENT CHIWENGA SAYS Zanu-PF has already won the 26 March 2022 by-elections and party members can start celebrating.Speaking during the launch of the public procurement registration services in Nkulumane, Bulawayo, Chiwenga said the ruling party would celebrate the victory with a “big pomp”.The launch was a partnership between the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) and Zimpost.“We are celebrating 2022 with a big pomp in that I am quite sure he (Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairman…

SUSPECTED SERIAL RAPIST WHO sexually assaulted 16 women in Bulawayo’s western suburbs has been arrested.Acting Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the arrest.“A suspect in connection with the 16 rapes that occurred in Bulawayo has been apprehended. Police are doing their investigations and we shall give out a full statement in due course.”POLICE in Bulawayo had issued a warning that there is a serial rapist on the loose in the city following…

THE US SAYS ITS SAMCTIONS ARE ONLY TARGETED at a few Zimbabwean companies and individuals who are dabbling in corruption and undermining human rights, emphasising that it is untrue the restrictive measures are to blame for Zimbabwe’s current economic woes.The Zanu-PF government has persistently blamed sanctions for the failing economy while the US and its Western allies attribute the country’s perennial troubles on corruption by the regime and its cronies.In a four-part podcast on the…

The former prime minister said it would be ‘a long drive’.Former prime minister David Cameron is driving a small lorry full of supplies for Ukrainian refugees to the country’s border with Poland.Mr Cameron announced the trip on Twitter, where he said he had been volunteering for two years at a food project in west Oxfordshire called the Chippy Larder.Through the project, he said donations had been taken in for refugees from Ukraine and they now…