NELSON CHAMISA’S CCC to boycott 2023 elections? Sources within the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC have revealed that a fierce debate on whether or not to participate in next year’s elections is raging.   According to the sources, the debate has been ignited by growing perceptions that the stabilising economic environment in the country and the growing acceptance of the ZANU PF government in Western capitals spell doom for the CCC and that all opinion polls, even…

11 CAR PILE UP freak accident at Coca-Cola intersection, in Harare’s Graniteside industrial area yesterday. Witnesses said the accident was caused by the driver of a bus who lost control of his vehicle following brake failure and crashed into an Isuzu truck, which landed on top of a Honda Fit vehicle, leading to a pile-up, but there were no fatalities. “The bus lost brakes and when it was trying to avoid an oncoming truck it…

KINGDOM HOTEL (African Sun Limited) Victoria Falls has announced it is shutting down in January 2022 after failing to agree on lease terms with First Capital Bank, owners of the property.The hotelier said the parties had failed to reach common ground on the length of the lease with the property owner firm on a two-year lease while ASL wanted 10 years, sufficient to recoup its investment.In a 24 November memo to trading partners, African Sun…

CRISIS Coalition in Zimbabwe (CiZC) has expressed concern over increasing cases of pregnancies among schoolgirls as statistics indicate that 20 000 schoolgirls fell pregnant between September last year and August this year. The Family Aids Caring Trust (FACT) claimed in its latest report that Zimbabwe has witnessed a surge in cases of child pregnancies with statistics between September 2021 and August 2022 indicating that over 20 000 pupils at primary and secondary schools dropped out…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga will take home $69,2 million as their combined basic annual salaries in 2023, the latest proposed estimates of expenditure (Bluebook) have revealed. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced the national budget last Thursday. estimates of expenditure show that Mnangagwa and Chiwenga will earn $5,8 million each as monthly salaries. The wages are equivalent to US$8 964 at the prevailing official rate. The estimates of expenditure show that in…

CRIMINAL LAW (CODIFICATION AND REFORM) ACT -stiff penalties for anti-Zimbabwe crusaders. INVITING a military attack on Zimbabwe from a hostile foreign government through private correspondence will soon attract the death penalty or life imprisonment, while those who campaign for economic sanctions and trade restrictions would be liable to imprisonment for a period of up to five years under a proposed new law approved by Cabinet. Amendments to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act –…

MUTARE CENTRAL , Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer allegedly murdered his own mother over cigarettes dispute yesterday. Elvis Zhou (29) who was recently sent on leave after developing mental problems fatally assaulted his mother Crescentia Siziba (54) with bricks. According to police Zhou was escorted to his rural home in Mberengwa by his uncle Tinashe Chitonga on 25 November. Upon their arrival, they saw the accused’s wife Sinikiwe Chana (26) and the now-deceased Siziba on…

STATE PENSION AGE SET TO RISE to 68 in Treasury’s ‘big bazooka’ cash grab The pension age will rise to 68 a few years earlier than planned, under government proposals. The age at which Britons receive their state pension is set to increase to 67 by 2028 and 68 by 2039, but ministers want to pull that forward to the mid-2030s. It would mean that people currently in their mid-50s having to wait a year…

CASH STRAPPED ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT suspected to be readying for money printing as govt turns to Treasury bills, bonds THE cash-strapped government is likely to print money to finance its $575,5 billion budget deficit, economic analysts warned yesterday after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced next year’s $4,5 trillion national budget. Presenting the budget at the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden near Harare, Ncube said the $575,5 billion budget deficit would be funded through a combination…

YEAR 5 STUDENT DOCTOR 27 at Mpilo Central Hospital, heavily assaulted 2 men he busted having sex with his pregnant lover at a city lodge and flat respectively. A man from Bulawayo, who is also a trainee medical doctor at Mpilo Central Hospital, and suspected his pregnant girlfriend of cheating for some time had his suspicions confirmed in the most dramatic way. It, however, ended in tears for the two men he busted having sex…