THE trial of a South African-based Zimbabwean truck driver, who allegedly lost control of his vehicle and sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 31 people on the spot and leaving 40 others injured along the Harare-Masvingo Highway in April this year, was last week deferred to Thursday this week after the accused, Regis Mangwari, claimed he could not stand in the dock due to ill-health. Mangwari, who is facing 31 counts of culpable homicide and…

The Ghana spiritist influenced, Emmanuel Makandiwa must be investigated by the police for his direct link to the so called poison attack on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, observers have said.   A parliamentarian, Temba Mliswa also voiced saying, “We want to know as parliamentarians, if there was foul play; There should be answers.” The statements come after Makandiwa rushed to claim that he knew exactly how Mnangagwa would be poisoned. He made these statements as…

THE Zanu PF government recently declared President Robert Mugabe’s birthday, February 21, a public holiday in honour of the veteran politician who turns 94 next year. However, the move has received mixed reactions from a cross section of society, including opposition parties, who dismissed it as a bootlicking exercise.   NewsDay (ND) reporters Blessed Mhlanga and Obey Manayiti yesterday interviewed Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao (PZ) over the matter and below are…

THE late national heroine and Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa succumbed to high blood pressure after she reportedly received reports of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s alleged food poisoning, a close family member has claimed.   The late Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa The late Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa Mahofa’s daughter, Nyengeterai, told NewsDay last week that her mother “cried for two hours” fearing for Mnangagwa’s life.   “She (Mahofa) was stressed when…

There is a shortage of antiretroviral drugs in Zimbabwe’s  public health institutions raising fears of drug interruptions among people taking the life-saving treatment should the situation continue. HIV positive people who are taking abacavir — a second line ARV drug — are being given a week’s supply of the drug instead of the traditional three months supply because of the drug  shortage .   Abacavir is one of the commonly used ARVs for management of…

Mnangagwa ingested potent, non-radioactive poison   FRESH details have emerged that South African doctors – who performed a minor surgery on Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa last Wednesday – reportedly detected traces of palladium poison which had partly damaged part of his liver, NewsDay reported.   The latest information was revealed on Mnangagwa’s return after he was airlifted to South Africa, following a food poisoning scare at a Zanu-PF youth interface rally in Gwanda on August 11….

It is right to take a step back from this volatile topic and apply common sense. In more ways than one, Mugabe is right to seek redress of past imbalances created by colonisation in Zimbabwe. These include loss of land, self employment and livelihoods by blacks as they were forcibly evicted from their motherland rich agricultural areas and pushed to dry , barren areas of little or no agricultural value, lands they could barely survive…

Dispossessed Zimbabwean commercial farmers have launched a new international legal initiative to seek justice and compensation for the loss of their farms and livelihoods, and to stop the ongoing farm seizures which are ravaging the economy.   On August 16 and 17, 2017 formal notice to initiate proceedings were served by the farmers’ legal team on President Robert Mugabe, three of his ministers and the Zimbabwean government collectively under the Southern African Community Development Community…

Press Statement by the Department of International Relations Cooperation on why Grace Mugabe was granted diplomatic immunity   Decision on Diplomatic Immunity relating to an alleged assault case in Sandton   On Wednesday 16 August 2017, the Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe invoked immunities of Dr Grace Mugabe in relation to the alleged case of assault widely reported in the media.   The Minister considered the communication from the Embassy in accordance with the…

Twenty three years after the end of apartheid rule in South Africa the country is still under a white monopoly capital system where land and financial resources are owned and controlled by the filthy rich whites while the indigenous black population are marginalised and poor.   A comment given by one of our readers Goodwill Moyo on this thread says   “That’s why they are now singing a new hymn called radical economic transformation.Numbers don’t…