Johannesburg. – The Democratic Alliance wants to report Police Minister Fikile Mbalula to the SA Human Rights Commission for the comments he made about former Zimbabwean soldiers illegally entering the country to rob and kill.   DA Gauteng leader John Moodey said Mbalula’s comments were a consequence of bad leadership. He said the African National Congress government had forgotten its vision for a united Africa.   “We believe that the comments promote hatred based on…

Zhuwao was last year implicated in an US$18 000 scam involving political activist and then Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) board member Acie Lumumba.   The Kurera/Ukondla (Youth Fund) programme was reportedly abused by youths and officials linked to the ruling Zanu PF party. In a notice this week, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth and Indigenisation chaired by Zanu PFs Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena said the public inquiry would be held in the second…

Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has suspended Chitungwiza Mayor Phillip Mutoti and all 24 councillors for allegedly corruptly allocating themselves tracts of land worth over $7 million.   Chitungwiza Municipality has 14 MDC-T councillors, including Mayor Mutoti and 11 Zanu-PF councillors. The minister will appoint a three-person caretaker council to clean up the rot in the municipality.   An internal audit shows councillors and officials allocated themselves commercial and institutional…

CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments “did nothing” when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But they also taught him that he could calibrate the violence and get away with it.   Along a post-independence fabric liberally blotted with death and suffering, the Matabeleland killings of 1983-84 – also known as Gukurahundi massacres – remain Zimbabwe’s most glaring.   Thousands of…

Zanu-PF has acquired new properties in Harare for party archives and offices for the Women’s League, among other administration offices, National Secretary for Administration Dr Ignatius Chombo (pictured right) has said.   Speaking to party administrators and the Midlands provincial executive yesterday, Dr Chombo said Zanu-PF Headquarters was overwhelmed with activity and there was need to decentralise.   He said the new property was big enough to accommodate other administrative offices, including the party archives,…