PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is set to fly into a fresh Gukurahundi storm, as he hosts his 93rd birthday party at Matopos National Park, a few kilometres from a mass grave of people killed during the massacres in the 1980s Activists have said it was insensitive for Mugabe to host his birthday fête a stone’s throw away from unmarked and officially unacknowledged graves of the 1980s killings that claimed an estimated 20 000 lives. The opposition…

THERE was drama at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on Monday, when a Russian man, Stephen Paul Sugden, accused of using forged documents to obtain a Zimbabwean passport, fled midway during his trial after a State witness blew the lead on his true identity. Sudgen asked for a break mid-trial, which was granted by presiding magistrate, Tendai Mahwe, but when proceedings resumed in the afternoon, he did not show up, prompting the court to issue a…

  DIPLOMATS at Zimbabwe’s 45 foreign missions might soon find themselves homeless, as they have been issued with eviction notices over rental arrears amounting to $7 million. This was revealed by Foreign Affairs ministry secretary, Joey Bimha on Monday, when he appeared before the Kindness Paradza-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs to speak on his ministry’s budget allocation for 2017, a paltry $32,8 million. “The ministry is in a quandary because all missions, without…

TYPHOI: Harare City Council and Zimbabwe Republic Police  confiscate food items and pushcarts from illegal vendors. Harare City Council in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday confiscated food items and pushcarts from illegal vendors as they carried out a blitz meant to control the spread of typhoid. The raid followed defiance by the illegal food vendors who were given a 48-hour ultimatum to cease operations last week. The food ban followed a typhoid outbreak, which…

A leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect, Madzibaba Benjman, has reiterated that President Mugabe would be life President of Zimbabwe as prophesied by Mudzidzi Wimbo many years ago. zanu-pf secretary for Administration Cde Ignatius Chombo also insisted that President Mugabe would be the revolutionary party’s candidate, while those who harbour ambitions to represent zanu-pf at next year’s elections would have to wait for the party’s congress in 2019 to contest and get a ticket…

AS the race for the Bikita West by election – due on Saturday – hots up, a group of suspected Zanu PF youths allegedly savagely attacked the opposition National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) candidate Madock Chivasa and his election agent, Thomas Mudzamiri on Tuesday. Chivasa confirmed the assault which he said had been carried out by about 10 Zanu PF youths. “They were travelling in an unmarked and unregistered Ford Everest (sports utility vehicle) SUV, and…

MLO learns with disappointment and fury, that the government of Zimbabwe, after an unexplained deployment of the army in Bulawayo, capital City of Matabeleland on christmas eve, has again posted heavily armed soldiers and riot police at the weekend in Nyathi, Bubi District, Matabeleland North to abuse poor villagers.   The reason given is that the army is there to quell tribal wars between the Ndebele and Shona speaking illegal miners. We know for a…