The country’s largest opposition party, the MDC T, could be headed for another split owing to widening differences in its top echelons over an alliance pact sealed by Morgan Tsvangirai on August 5.   Thokozani Khupe-Tsvangirai’s longest serving deputy, has teamed up with several other MDC  heavyweights to take Tsvangirai head-on for inking the pact without the full blessings of the movement’s leadership.   However, MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu dismissed speculative reports that the MDC-T…

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has lashed out at continental powerhouses South Africa and Nigeria for being complicit in the death of his slain ally, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, five years after the event. It is not the first time that Mugabe has chided South Africa in particular for voting with Western countries on the controversial United Nations resolution that gave the United States and its allies the mandate to bomb Libya in support of rebels who…

Last week the Zambian President Edgar Lungu announced that the Zambian government would conduct mandatory HIV testing for all citizens adding that if anyone visited any medical facility irrespective of the ailment involved, they would be subjected to a mandatory HIV test.   This however led to a furious uproar from the public and interested parties as it would be in breach of Human rights to test anyone unless if they were willing to do…

South African police arrested the Zimbabwean man who is accused of shooting dead one Zimbabwean and injuring nine others at a concert show at Hillbrow Theatre in the early hours of Sunday morning.   The Zimbabwean identified by authorities as Milton Mayelane Mncube (33) was found in possession of an unlicensed firearm. Mncube was said ito have been involved in an armed robbery after the theatre deadly shooting at Hillbrow Theatre.   The suspect is…

It is said that it never rains but pours when troubles come to one. The people of Zimbabwe can bear witness to that fact after the embarrassing behaviour by Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe who two weeks ago travelled from Zimbabwe to  assault the South African Model Gabriella Engels (20) in her own motherland. Having generated global attention, to this murderous behaviour, which showed abuse of Diplomatic immunity, total disregard for the Rule of law in…

Robert Mugabe jnr, who is in the midst of a diplomatic storm caused by his mother, Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe, is apparently back in the country and has resumed his studies at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).   Robert jnr, 25, has been studying towards an architecture degree since the beginning of the year, despite claims that he never finished school.   According to people who saw him on campus last week, he was…

A POLITICAL time bomb is ticking in the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T, with his deputy, Thokozani Khupe, writing a stinging letter last week accusing the former Prime Minister of being “unapproachable and unilaterally” signing the MDC Alliance deal, which gave him excessive powers, NewsDay reported.   In a letter in our possession dated August 21 and co-signed by Khupe, party chairman Lovemore Moyo and suspended organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe, they claimed that they decided to write…

THREE Zimbabweans were caught at Beitbridge Border Post with the largest heroin shipment ever smuggled into South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post On Thursday three Zimbabwean nationals were arrested by South African police in the largest heroin drug seizure of heroin weighing 10,25kg, through Beitbridge Border Post. An alert South African Revenue Services (SARS) cargo scanners routine check, detected the heroin stashed under the bed compartment in the truck yet the Zimbabwe’s border security had…